Last weekend saw the Mario Tennis Aces pre-launch tournament take place, with players being able to test out the game and unlock a special prize while doing so. While most players took to the likes of Twitter to boast about their scarily high scores, a smaller corner of the online community has noticed a much more upsetting feature of the game.
For those of you who played as Yoshi, and also ended up losing a fair few matches like us, you may have noticed his heartbreakingly sad 'losing pose', which you can see for yourself below. Warning: this image has been rated 'IS' for 'irreversibly sad'.
The upset, confused, and even angry comments surrounding the matter slowly started to stack up over the weekend, such as this tweet below.
There has also been a 'sad Yoshi' discussion taking place on Reddit. User R_O_BTheRobot noted "this is heartbreaking. Especially since I love Yoshis," and TickleMittz chimed in by saying "omg this makes me sad because I've loved Yoshi since I was like 4 years old."
The best of the bunch, though, comes from SankharaDukkha, who said:
The other characters look a little disappointed or frustrated when they lose, and that's fine, but Yoshi looks like you just crushed his entire sense of self worth. I've never seen a more dejected-looking dinosaur in my life. I honestly dread playing against Yoshi now, simply for this reason. The guilt is just too much. Yoshi seems like such a good sport the rest of the match; why does he take losing so hard?
Did you notice Yoshi's overly upset losing pose? Did you break down in tears every time? We've never wanted to adopt him more.
[source reddit.com]
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His face looks like my reaction when Mario Tennis was announced.
In before anyone says "tax fraud".
Yoshi can go kick rocks. What stood out to me is that Rosalina is a fox in that game.
Also, with the double gold points buying it digital is pretty much the same as getting the 20% discount from Amazon Prime. No tax + double gold points means it's only about $1 more. The good price and the small, 1.8gb file size convinced me to buy this one digitally.
He looks more tired than sad to me. People seem to look for things that aren't there, as was with Luigi's "lunchbox".
Ah, Come On !
Maybe Yoshi was so Melancholy on Mario Tennis Aces.
Beside, Crying helps him to slow down and obsess over the weight of life's problems.
Yeah, why does he look so sad? Much better than throwing Yoshi in holes, like is standard is SMW rom hacks!
I didn’t have much time to try out the demo this past weekend. Was it good?
The Internet can't seem to handle a lot of things.
It may be time for it to see a therapist.
Just looks extremely sleepy to me.
Which is reasonable, if you consider all the eggs any one Yoshi has laid and hatched over the years, being a parent to 1,000,000s of Baby Yoshis must be exhausting.
1990: Yoshi gets tortured by a fat plumber.
2018: Yoshi loses a tennis match, and couldn't make up for tax fraud.
At least the internet isn't obsessing over Yoshi's nipples or something.
I'm not seeing how he's any more sad than before, maybe comparison images would help...
That’s a Dinosaur that’s been broken by a fat plumber sitting on him.
Picture that image with the Johnny Cash song "Hurt" playing.
Not as harrowing as the Donkey Kong Country game over screen.
@Anti-Matter Your comment literally made me laugh very audibly.
I'm just concerned about the way he can shape his eyelids/brows. Good Yoshisaur, see a doctor.
@shonenjump86 The demo was really fun when it wasn't laggy! Only two of my about seven or eight matches were laggy. It was very responsive, and the matches felt fair winning or losing. A real test of skill and reflexes.
a bit stupid though. it's just a game and a pose. Lets see how people react when they lose. Get over it. If I would be Nintendo I would ignore people as such. No need. This is a great pose after losing a match. period
People are actually getting mad about this?
Come on, people.
Yoshi is always horribly sad and it's always guilt inducing. The only cure to this is to play as Yoshi so that even when you beat Yoshi there's a happy Yoshi to counter Sad Yoshi.
At least it's not Sad Keanu.
Between this and the BF5 debacle, general gamers truly are the worst.
Maybe he really hates losing? Maybe years of that fat plumber dumping him into bottomless pits and lava have spurred him to prove everyone wrong and show them that he's worth something and admitting defeat in Tennis is the straw to break the Yoshi's back, that crushes his dreams? Yoshi is a character that delivers the feels, it's all happy happy joy joy, or utter sadness, it's like watching sad puppies. It needs to stay^^
No, I can honestly say I did not notice Yoshi's 'overly upset losing pose'.
This is a genuine article based on random Reddit content.
First, the AV Club floods half their content with "Great Job Internet" garbage articles. Now this.
I am disappoint.
Calm down, Internet. Everything is fine.
He looks like he's on drugs. Don't do drugs, kids.
He's depressed because that's what it feels like when you try your best but still fail.
I think there are a lot of memes on the subject? I would feel that way too
@ryancraddock what is this Yoshi tax fraud thing all about please, Ry? Seen it a lot and have no clue.....
Toad would never evade tax!
Poor Yoshi!
He wants you to feel guilty for beating him. Don't fall for his tricks.
@shonenjump86 I thought so. I was initially frustrated because the matchmaking didn’t seem to account for skill differences or experience (for my first matches I was already thrown against people with hundreds or thousands of points who clearly had the mechanics down well and I couldn’t score a single point). I took a break and came back to it and had more fun, my final impression is just don’t jump into online matches until you feel you got all the moves down, there’s more depth than past Mario Tennis games but it feels rewarding, especially as you learn when to use energy offensively and when to use it defensively (if you think you can break the opponent’s racket, it’s worth going for an easier win, but if they prove skilled at blocking then don’t waste your energy there, it’s all about learning the opponent’s weak points).
@SmaggTheSmug to be honest yoshi looks more sick to me if anything.
I'm not sure, but I think this is total BS. I think ALL the characters looked suitably devastated at losing.
I can't get back to the game now the demo is over to check but a few I remember: Mario looks at his shoes like he'll never be able to smile again, Chain chomp literally rolls over dead and my favourite Spike just sits down on the ground and stares at the ground in disbelieve.
No story here - just a bloody great game with great character expressiveness. Now lets all be sensible and get back to discussing Mario's nipples.
@JHDK How do you get double your gold points?
First Mario's nipples, then Luigi's lunchbox, now Yoshi's crippling depression! What Mario character will the Internet complain about next?
This is merely a visual representation of Nintendo during the Wii U era.
@Toads-Friend Just a meme going round http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yoshi-committed-tax-fraud
More stoned then sad if you ask me.
@NintendoFan4Lyf
Bruh!!! I say the exact same thing Every day!! Very weird lol
Isn't Yoshi just the Jar Jar Binks of the Mario World?
His sad expression probably boils down to the stark realisation that life is hard...,.perhaps he should take a leaf out of the world of Pokemon and 'evolve', grow some wings become a bird (like the rest of his brethren) and fly away from that fascist Italian dictator, I mean plumber.
He looks pretty dejected, but nothing will ever approach the level of sorrow & dejection displayed by Little Mac on the Punch Out game over screen. It’s awful. He looks like he’s been beaten with a lead pipe, and it was so bad, he’s just sitting there on a stool having an introspective crisis about what he’s doing with his life. “Should I just give up? Retire?!?”
Just when I think I'm beginning to understand the internet, this pops up.
@brunojenso If you pre-purchase it you get the normal 5% right away then they will credit you another 5% worth of gold points once the game is released.
https://mynintendonews.com/2018/06/02/pre-purchase-mario-tennis-aces-to-receive-double-gold-points-on-my-nintendo/
@JHDK Great - thanks for the link
Its a 3D model. A person isn't gonna be jumping for joy if they lost (or dinosaur in this case, I guess). It has no affect or outcome of a match.
So....who cares.
And people raised a similar stink for Luigi giving 'em the look in freakin' Mario Kart. Guess its the Dino's turn now?
Still,that's the worst case of disappointment I have seen in ANY Mario game, side series' included. Yoshi hating on you for getting your racquet handed to you on the court basically just wrecked the Internet. Wait for the meme, I guess.
@AndrewJ that and and what looks like a sick moonwalk when changing directions. But apparently Yoshi getting his tail handed over is the far bigger thing right now.
And yes, I did play the trial. It got seriously brutal.
@BraveBiT My god that picture is making me so depressed lmao
This is even stupider than when people complained about the tracer victory pose in Overwatch.
Talk about a non-issue.
@MH4 @ShadJV cool, this will probably be the next Switch game I get.
@MH4 - That's how you animate emotions for characters that don't have eyebrows. You change the shape of their eyes/eyelids.
@KayFiOS You forgot DeDeDe's baldness.
@SmaggTheSmug That's a thing?!
@Prizm me too, although after playing the demo im pretty excited about it. I know what you mean though, nintendo really has rolled out the b team in the first half of this year...
@Prizm Yeah, I know, I was just joking.
Technically Pepe is too racist for the discussion.
That tax fraud prank is much better.
@NEStalgia @ryancraddock Tax Fraud.
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