“Shirtless Mario!” is a skin mod that lets the Italian fighter trade his iconic overalls for swim trunks.
Super Smash Bros. on the Wii U already has alternate costumes for some characters along these lines, including Xenoblade’s Shulk, so the shirtless mod would have seemed like a natural fit for the game long before the Mario Odyssey gameplay from this week’s Nintendo Direct confirmed that Mario does in fact have nipples
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The mod was created by SmashingRenders and provides the skin in both the game’s UI and in matches, with a metal version as well.
And Mario can now be shirtless in Sm4sh… https://t.co/lpqK9xkeuh pic.twitter.com/CwXGbPYHAN
— Smashing (@SmashingRenders) September 15, 2017
Some players have already started uploading video of shirtless Smash Mario in action and the results look pretty seamless. By the end of the year (month?) I fully expect the bathing suit version to have made it into every previous Mario game.
You can check out the mod for yourself here
