Smiling Friends fans have already turned Gwimbly, a parody of mistrea🎉ted platforming mascots like and , into a real-life icon.
After months of waiting and teases from Adult Swim, . Not only did this include a release date for the season, May 12, and remade puppet versions of some of the first season's episodes, but the first episode of the new season was also fully released.
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The episode, amazingly titled "Gwimbly: Definiti🅷ve Remastered Enhanced Extended Edition DX 4K (Anniversary Director’s Cut)", focused on Pim helping out a mistreated and down-on-his-luck retro platforming mascot named Gwimbly who has been forgotten by the company that owns him and is now focused on microtransactions and battle passes.
This was, of course, a parody of characters like Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, and Banjo-Kazooie, who have all been given the same tre🍸atment ꦰover the last few console generations. As you'd expect from such a painfully realistic story, gamers instantly fell in love with him like they did those heroes, with many .
Of course, the natural next step for such an iconic fictional gaming hero is to make him an actual gaming icon, something that Smiling Friends fans have been doing with gusto over the past few days. and that we've all just been waiting for his resurgence, but they've actually started putting him in real games.
Gwimbly has even retro🦋actively been put into The Simpsons, . Poor Sonic got completely replaced.
, who managed to . The mod appears to change Yoshi into the less-dishevelled version of Gwimbly that we saw in the episode as opposed to the modern version 🃏of the character.
That appears to just be the beginning of the Gwimbly fever, as there are already tons of posts on social media adding him into games, . Twitter is already full of requests for modders to add Gwimbly into Super Mario 64 and Smash Bros., so it looks lik🐟e we can expect Gwimbly fever to keep running hot. O✤oh ooh ooh indeed.
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