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>>7726496
>how did they feel so confident making shy guys main enemies in yoshi's island. especially since yoshi's island doesnt have all that many other references to DDP
Because by that point they weren't references to DDP as Super Mario USA was released in Japan a couple of years prior. Actually, I wouldn't even say that the SMB3 instruction book thing is necessarily a DDP reference--at least not internally, because some of the same people who worked on the DDP-SMB2 conversion also worked on SMB3 (this evidenced by the fact that SMB2 uses Mario and Princess sprite from SMB3).

Also, they would later use Ninji and Pidgit in Super Mario World, and that was *before* Super Mario USA. I can't imagine that Miyamoto and co. meant all of these DDP enemy occurrences strictly as references to a Famicom Disk System game that hardly anyone remembered. Within the walls of Nintendo of Japan they were all very much aware of the fact that 'Doki Doki Panic' was considered a true Mario game and was an international hit.