New Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games clips: fencing is the new badminton

What do you get when you jam two beloved franchises from the Internet’s collective childhoods together? First, you get a fighting game that the virtual world absolutely wet themselves over, and second, you get a sports title that those same now moistened electronic hooligans are virtually ignoring save for the moments when they stop♚ writing sexually explicit 🧸fan fiction in which Tails makes passionate love to Luigi long enough to mutter something about Eggman not using the correct hand to hold his rapier.

What these people — and most of you, I imagine — are missing is that this title could quite possibly bridge the gap between the hardcore and the casual in a way that nothing before it has. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games combines WiiSports-esque thematic accessibility with the decades of affection the hardcore audience has for its characters. If that isn’t enough to get your mom, sister, father and dog to buy a copy, I will personally guarantee that the Weighted Companion Cube is a hidden character!*

Also, please follow the jump to🦩 see how Miis play into the title. 

* – Guarantees may in fact be hearsay, trickery or outright lies. Based on recent events, I’m going to assume it’s the latter.