This does not include the unfinished Panel de Pon GB Easter egg in Pokémon Puzzle Challenge, her sticker in Brawl (which is another character, Furil), or her costume appearing in Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Welcome amiibo. Ultimate marks Lip's first formal appearance outside of Japan.
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When a fan asked Smash series director Masahiro Sakurai if Lip would appear in the series, Sakurai replied that, while he enjoyed Panel de Pon, he was unsure how many people would recognize Lip as a character.She would later make her first formal international appearance outside of Smash upon the release of her origin game on the Nintendo Switch Online service in May 2020. This set, which does not otherwise reference Lip by name, can be earned by the player's Villager through clearing milestones in the Animal Crossing: Puzzle League minigame. The first known international reference to Lip or her universe outside of Smash was the "Flower Fairy" costume set in the Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Welcome amiibo update. Lip also plays an important role in the Japan-only 2008 release Captain Rainbow, in which she dreams of becoming a magician.
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Mario & Puzzle League, and while 2007's Planet Puzzle League and 2009's Puzzle League Express did not feature the fairy characters prominently even for their Japanese release, there was a Lip stage skin in the Japanese versions of the games. Lip's theme can be heard in the 2005 release of Dr. Lip was replaced with a similar-looking but distinct character, Furil, who uses Lip's stage, element, and theme - the Puzzle Collection release was in fact built off of an unreleased prototype version of Pokémon Puzzle League using the fairy characters. When Nintendo released the Japan-only Nintendo Puzzle Collection in 2003 for the GameCube, the fairy aesthetic of Panel de Pon returned, but with an almost entirely new cast. 13 years after the original release of Puzzle Challenge, it was discovered that Lip's Stage could be secretly accessed using specific button commands. Both games were intended to have have starred Lip and the fairy cast from the first game, but that plan was scrapped in favor of the Pokémon variants. As such, Lip remained relatively unknown outside of Japan.įive years later, Panel de Pon was adapted into the Pokémon universe as Pokémon Puzzle League for the Nintendo 64 and Pokémon Puzzle Challenge for the Game Boy Color. ), alongside a Game Boy port which would be re-localized to Japan with Yoshi characters intact.
Due to a stigma relating to female-led video games in the 1990s, Panel de Pon was rebranded and released overseas as Tetris Attack, with the characters from the first game replaced by those from the Yoshi series (with earlier plans during localization for it to feature characters from Killer Instinct. The true ending reveals that Lip's mother, the goddess Cordelia, was testing Lip's ability to succeed her as the fairy queen.
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In the story, Lip uses her flower wand and puzzle skills to free the fairies of her world from a curse set by the demon king Thanatos. Lip debuted as the protagonist of the 1995 Japanese puzzle game Panel de Pon, appearing as the main playable character in the game's single-player story mode.
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