Bowser: King of the Dark Kingdom

Bowser: King of the Dark Kingdom is a 2024 platformer which is a spinoff of the Super Mario Bros. series, featuring Bowser, the Koopalings, Boom Boom, Pom Pom, and the enemies. It takes place between Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine.
==Controls==
===Left Joy-con===
Stick, left and right buttons: Moves Bowser and co.
Up button: Makes Bowser and co. look up
Down button: Makes Bowser and co. crouch
===Right Joy-con===
+: Pause and settings
X/Y buttons: Boost
A/B buttons: Jump
==Plot==
After getting defeated by Mario for the 4th time, Bowser gets an idea to capture Peach once again, he recruits the Koopalings, Boom Boom, Pom Pom, and the rest of his gang, to steal the Princess once again, so they journey to the castle and kidnap the princess, now all they have to do is return to the Dark Kingdom, but since they used an airship to transport to the castle and the airship exploded from Lemmy accidentally dropping a Bob-omb, they decide to go on a journey through 8 worlds.
===World 1===
A grass land with Toads for enemies, in a fortress, you fight Bucken-Berry, and in a castle, you fight Ala-Gold. After finishing the castle, Bowser and his group get deserted in a desert, leading up to World 2.
=== World 2 ===
A desert land with Pokey Toads for enemies, After finishing the castle, Bowser and his pals get abducted by Toad Aliens
=== World 3 ===
A space planet with Alien Toads for enemies, After finishing the castle, Bowser and gang return to Earth and get dropped off in a snow world.
=== World 4 ===
A snow land with Yeti Toads for enemies, After finishing the castle, Bowser and the troop find a river which leads them to a jungle.
=== World 5 ===
A jungle with Tarzan Toads for enemies, After finishing the castle, Bowser and his cronies find a pipe that leads to an underground pipe ecosystem.
=== World 6 ===
An underground pipe city with Pipe Cap Toads for enemies, After finishing the castle, The troop try to find a way out, they do thanks to a trampoline, but they realize the trampoline was too high when they find themselves in the sky.
=== World 7 ===
A sky land with Cloud Toads for enemies, After finishing the castle, Bowser and team fall off a cloud into their home.
=== World 8 ===
The Dark Kingdom, in the fortress, the gang fight Luigi, and in the castle (the final level), the gang fight Mario himself (who followed the gang on their way back all along in a Nabbit disguise [explaining Nabbit replacing Mario in New Super Luigi U]).
===After the End===
Bowser hears a knock on his door, and he finds a baby, he adopts the baby and names it Bowser Jr.
==Characters==
===Bowser===
The king of Koopas who resides in the Dark Kingdom with his seven kids, their cousins, and others.
====Bowser Jr.====
Bowser's adopted son which he adopts at the end of the game. 
===Koopalings===
Bowser's children, Lemmy is notable, since he is responsible for the whole journey.
===Boom-Boom===
The cousin of the Koopalings.
====Pom-Pom====
Boom-Boom's sister.
==Power-Ups==
Name 	Image	Side effects 	Number of hits to take out
Dark Mushroom 	 	Makes person who used it stronger 	2 hits
Fire-Up 	 	Makes person who used it breath fire when X is pressed.	3 hits
Invincible Mushroom	 	Makes the person who used it unstoppable 	No hits.
Tanooki Suit 	 	Gives the player a Tanooki suit. 	3 hits (No hits in statue form)
== Development ==
Developmont began in 2019 shortly after the Nintendo Switch Lite's release, Nintendo wanted to develop a Bowser game ever since Super Princess Peach was released, and they thought now was their chance.
In 2022, Nintendo announced the codename for this game, Project: KOOPALING, people were excited for the return of the Koopalings during the announcement.
On January 21st, 2023, The game was announced to take place in between 64 and Sunshine.
On June 21, 2023, the Nintendo Direct announced the game's title to be Bowser: King of the Dark Kingdom, at the very same direct, it was announced that a new console called the SwitchX would release in October 2024, and this game wouldn't just be a Switch-exclusive, it would also be a launch title for Nintendo 1024-bit console.
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