Ranadok …doesn't have much better to do

Doki Doki Cross Stitch

December was crazy, but January is slowly getting better. I finally found some time to finish this post, which has been sitting half-completed for well over a month, so LUCKY YOU.

Once I finished my first Zelda stitch, I went back to the series that I started with, Super Mario Brothers. The logical next game to do was Super Mario Brothers 2, the bizarre non-Mario Mario game that was actually a modification of the Japanese Doki Doki Panic created when it was decided by Nintendo that the 'real' SMB2 was too hard for western gamers. Interestingly, SMB2 (the North American version) was the first one I ever played, and one of the few games on the NES that I actually played to completion. It's still a little weird, though.

Turnips? Seriously?

I really like the colors in this one, particularly the greens and reds (which yes, do make up 85% of the piece). Mario looks a little washed out, but he does in the actual game as well.

Yup, a turnip.

This was a fair bit easier to stitch than both the first Mario and the first Zelda, partially due to the size. It's also the first one that I did where all the elements are connected, so no counting of blank spaces was required, which removed a lot of the difficulty. It was a fast project, but I really like the results. It's possibly one of my favorites of all my video game projects. Plus, the lowest level of the ground reminds me of Dad's brand chocolate chip cookies, so it has that going for it. Here's the gallery, plus some highlights in all-new Can't-Be-Bothered-To-Line-Them-Up Vision!

So very red... but not a turnip. Radish, perhaps?

Turnip Action Man Strikes!

He is so doomed. Referring, of course, to that poor turnip.

There could be anything under there! Anything! It's probably just another turnip, but it could be ANYTHING!