Slime Drop
| Slime Drop | |||
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 Artwork from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island | |||
| First appearance | Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (1995) | ||
| Latest appearance | Yoshi's New Island (2014) | ||
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Slime Drops (originally known as Lemon Drops)[1] are enemies in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and its reissue. They look like gooey lemon drops and are found in only a few levels. They are especially prominent in Salvo The Slime's Castle, where they break off Salvo the Slime when he is hit. They also appear in Prince Froggy's Fort.
In Nintendo Puzzle Collection, yellow and blue Slime Drops cascade down the screen when a stage of Round 3 is cleared in the Action Mode of Yoshi no Cookie.
Slime Drops also appear in Yoshi's New Island in the level Slime Drop Drama. A Yoshi can defeat Slime Drops by eating or jumping on them.
What appears to be Slime Drops make a cameo appearance in Mario Party 4 in Slime Time. They appear as small blue drops instead of yellow.
Profiles[edit]
Yoshi's Island series[edit]
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island[edit]
- Shogakukan guide: 天井らポタッと落ちてくることがある。頭上に注意。[2] (Sometimes they fall from the ceiling. Be careful overhead.)
- Player's Guide: Tasty morsels that drop from the ceilings, Lemon Drops help Yoshi replenish his egg supply.[1]
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3[edit]
- Shogakukan guide: 天井からボタッと落ちてくることがある。プチプチくんと同じように、ふみつけると周囲の敵を少しだけはじき飛ばせる。[3] (Sometimes they fall from the ceiling. Like Mildes, they can send surrounding enemies flying a little when you step on them.)
Yoshi's New Island[edit]
- Shogakukan guide: 天井から水滴のように落ちてきて、地面に着地するとこちらに近づいてくる。決まった場所に落ちてくるので、出現場所には長居しないようにすること。[4] (They fall from the ceiling like water drops and approach you when they land on the ground. They fall at a fixed location, so do not stay at the location where they appear for a long time.)
Gallery[edit]
Slime Drops on the cover of volume 2 of the Kodansha manga's Yoshi's Island arc
Nintendo Puzzle Collection (Yoshi no Cookie)
Naming[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The original English name of "Lemon Drop" is a play on the yellow candy of the same name and its behavior.
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | スライム[2][3][4] Suraimu |
Slime | |
| Chinese (simplified) | 粘冻1[5] Niándòng (Mandarin) |
Sticky Jelly | |
| French | Machâlow[6][5][7] | Potentially from Chamallow, the trade name for marshmallows; not to be confused with the colloquial guimauve ("marshmallow") | |
| German | Proto Schleimi[8] | Proto Salvo the Slime | |
| Italian | Fangoccia[7] | Portmanteau of fango ("mud") and goccia ("drop") | |
| Melma[9] | Slime | Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island | |
| Korean | 슬라임[7] Seullaim |
Slime | |
| Portuguese | Limovisco[7] | From limo ("slime") and viscoso ("viscous") | |
| Russian | Слизнявчик[7] Sliznyavchik |
From cлизняк (sliznyak, "slug") |
1 - Attribution of this specific name to Slime Drop is an extrapolation derived form the localized name of Salvo the Slime.
References[edit]
- ^ a b Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island Nintendo Player's Guide. Page 127.
- ^ a b Okeya, Noriko, Mitsuharu Orihara, and Yuji Kigen, editors (1995). 『スーパーマリオヨッシーアイランド任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-1025-234. Page 8.
- ^ a b Watanabe, Takashi, Noriko Oketani, Mitsuharu Orihara, Tatsuhiko Mizutani, and Yasushi Nakahara, editors (2002). 『スーパーマリオアドバンス3任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-106071-4. Page 17.
- ^ a b Iwaya, Kiyotaka, Tatsuhiko Mizutani, Yasuyuki Kato, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Yasushi Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2014). 『ヨッシー New アイランド 任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 978-4-09-106542-1. Page 20.
- ^ a b In-game name for Salvo The Slime's Castle from Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3.
- ^ In-game name for Salvo the Slime's Castle from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.
- ^ a b c d e In-game name for Slime Drop Drama from Yoshi's New Island.
- ^ Menold, Marcus, John D. Kraft, and Thomas Görg, editors (1995). Der offizielle Nintendo Spieleberater "Super Mario World 2 – Yoshi's Island". Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). Page 17.
- ^ Fletcher, John, editor in chief (1996). Club Nintendo Numero 2. Linea Gig S.p.a., Nintendo Co., Ltd. (Italian). Page 27.
