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Nintendo Illustrations to Highlight The Wii U Difference (JP)
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I feel for him.
RMS Gigantic
Member
Someone's never played Yoshi's Story.
Werewolf Jones
Gold Member
I wish they did this for the West.
I noticed this as well.
Heh.
And why does Peach have a special royal chair? She just couldn't go over to someone else's house and sit in a "commoner's" furniture, could she? Nah, she just had to bring her own, lest she become defiled.
TheSpoonyBard
Neo Member
Too bad this is what everyone else is doing nowadays.
I am Christina Aguilera
Member
Isn't the whole Paper Mario series a simplified version of exactly this happening? The GameCube/Wii WarioWare games' before-rounds sequences are in this style too, but the animation is very limited Flash-esque vector madness, a lot of the time.
That said, I badly want a traditional 2D Mario game in this style. Or remakes of the NES/SNES Mario games that use the same engines, but this art.
The Paper Mario and WarioWare style is close to this, but it's always so limited in animation.
I'd love to see this fluidly animated and realized in a traditional 2D Mario too.
Right, let's have the guys who fix our toilet bake us a cake.
greycolumbus
The success of others absolutely infuriates me.
In the days of ugly CG renders, those illustrations are a welcome relief. I loved them in 3D World. It probably would have pushed me to getting a physical copy if the boxart was stylized similarly.
EDIT: Wait, why didn't they use blue Toad?
EDIT: Wait, why didn't they use blue Toad?
tell him don't worry all 5000 people (including me) who own Wonderful 101 will always remember it in their heart
:americaneaglesalute.gif:
Peach performing a stereotypical conjugal role? #EverydaySexism #DownWithNintendo
I'm more distressed that by now she hasn't committed the cake recipe to memory.
Someone photoshop the image with a SFTU instead of next text!
Some Nobody
Junior Member
This is actually a good point. Its been a REALLY long time.
Also. That chef's hat is adorable.
I am Christina Aguilera
Member
Not that this isn't also an issue with the 3D graphics, but there seems to be some sort of manpower bottleneck with Nintendo doing full animation using their standard 2D character models. I don't know if it's still actually Kotabe doing all of these for Nintendo, but he's a 77 year old man now. While his background prior to Nintendo was in animation (Toei), all of the games that they've made with his art [or art style?] in recent years have simplified something in the animation. The WarioWare games mostly seem to have the characters jumping from keyframe to keyframe with a little bit of vector stretching/squashing in between, and the Paper Mario games, aside from simplifying the designs, do things like making Mario's arms and feet separate objects that can just be animated by rotating them. The one recent game that I can think of where they used fully, richly animated 2-D sprites was Wario Land: Shake It!, and Nintendo outsourced the character animation for that one to Production I.G, resulting in a slightly different art style.
A tidbid from Wario Land: Shake It's Wiki page probably explains a lot of the rationale of all of this, given Nintendo's predisposition to endlessly tweak its games to perfection:
I'd be surprised if Kotabe hasn't been grooming replacements to draw promo art in that style for Nintendo, if the replacements aren't already doing all of that promo art already. You would think that Nintendo could probably find and train enough animators to fully animate a 2D game like this, but given that the general consumer demand and expectation is for 3D-animated characters, that with 3D, Nintendo doesn't really need to continually redraw the character from scratch in every frame, just tweak the poses, saving resources, and the fact that grooming a bunch of 2D animators might ultimately just be for one or two niche products, Nintendo is probably being conservatively Nintendo about sticking their neck out on the resources for that sort of thing.
God, just a Mario 3 remake with art like the instruction manual would be amazing, though.
Peach performing a stereotypical conjugal role? #EverydaySexism #DownWithNintendo
Stop.
Natureboy99
Banned
Peach performing a stereotypical conjugal role? #EverydaySexism #DownWithNintendo
So a picture of woman cooking food is sexist? OK...
Facts!? in a Nintendo thread? you should be rightfully offended by the lack of games in these pictures about a console you have no interest in.
The nerve.
PreyingShark
Member
He's actually a significantly better singer than Mario. Mario's just jealous.
I am Christina Aguilera
Member
He's actually a significantly better singer than Mario. Mario's just jealous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yXRGYaOfeY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoCa04KxQQ0
Results are inconclusive
Uncle Rupee
Banned
The off-screen play and streaming shows I can understand, but these two:
Really seem like they're reaching for excuses
They should have illustrations showing asynchronous multiplayer, touch screen gaming, internet (tablet) browsing, and how the Gamepad's features can be used for different gaming experiences (like holding it up to use as a scope or x-ray vision).
Really seem like they're reaching for excuses
They should have illustrations showing asynchronous multiplayer, touch screen gaming, internet (tablet) browsing, and how the Gamepad's features can be used for different gaming experiences (like holding it up to use as a scope or x-ray vision).
It was great seeing the style in SM3DW, so it's good seeing it used again here.
Some fantastic 'Shops in this thread too!
Some fantastic 'Shops in this thread too!
ElectricKaibutsu
Member
Peach owns a patisserie though. Also, my wife bakes. Is that sexist?
Reminds me of this old gem:
Why would Cooking Mama be pitching to Miyamoto when Nintendo doesn't owns the IP or publish the game?
Pretty poor research to make a lame domestic violence joke.
He's being bitter over nothing as none of the other Wii U games are on there, hell it's just Mario character using the Wii U.
keisuke999
Member
I think the Wii U is awesome. Not sure why people hate on it so much.
StreetsAhead
Member
It certain feels like some people are treating this as the only web page about the features of the Wii U Nintendo operates, and not one of several.
You mean, something like this other official page about the Wii U?
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wiiu/hardware/features/index.html
The bottom of the page advertises some games.
PigSpeakers
Member
Let's have a contest to see who can get the most offended in this thread! Extra points if you take someone's sarcastic offense seriously and then get upset by it.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
They are watching the latest Wii U trailers!
Mario''s gonna need to move his hands a little further down.
They've actually been using the classic art style again ever since Super Mario 3D Land...
But I agree they should use it more often, it represents Mario and friends PERFECTLY.
Yes, they should (although I can already hear the the naysayers that will probably see this as a sign that Nintendo is diving even deeper into its own navel by going for nostalgic drawings...).
Even better: why not a Mario game that tries to approach this drawing style for its in-game graphics? I'd love that very much.
It reminds me of what they did last year, during Pikmin 3's launch: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wiiu/ac3j/pop1.html
The off-screen play and streaming shows I can understand, but these two:
Really seem like they're reaching for excuses
They should have illustrations showing asynchronous multiplayer, touch screen gaming, internet (tablet) browsing, and how the Gamepad's features can be used for different gaming experiences (like holding it up to use as a scope or x-ray vision).
Are you joking? We do this all the time!
Perfect to go on cooking sites and everything.
And really there's no fucking way I'm putting my SP2 in the kitchen for that.
e: We don't use the main tv, that's just silly.
Tye The Czar
Member
Peach performing a stereotypical conjugal role? #EverydaySexism #DownWithNintendo
Yeah, because why should only women be capable of baking a cake? Guys have cooking skills too! Give Toad the bowl and spoon, Peach!
MaximoffZero
Banned
Looking at this picture, this music starts going through my head. I'm picturing Mario opening the front door and saying "Honey, I'm a-Home!"
that's right! Mario gets to sit in the recliner. #alpha4life
so you can use the stylus and not get your tablet, phone, or laptop all dirty from using it while you're cooking
so you can use the stylus and not get your tablet, phone, or laptop all dirty from using it while you're cooking
Village_Idiot
Banned
Easier to read from a distance on TV. The Wii u formats very well to TV. Literally the best web viewing experience on TV... Downsides are speed and plugin support.
Phones and tablets are built to be held closely and are very delicate devices.
The gamepad is ridiculously durable. I think its the only reason Nintendo are sticking to plastic touchscreens. I've never seen a cracked screen on DS or WiiU.
Seen loads of tablets and phones with cracked screens.
And finally in Europe/Japan it us not uncommon to have your living room also be your kitchen.
Peach performing a stereotypical conjugal role? #EverydaySexism #DownWithNintendo
Not even the first time
EDIT: Actually, in the game Mario and Luigi are the cooks, so yeah...
RobFox64tm
Member
Peach is definitely a sexist portrayal of women and she always has been, just like most fictional princesses. However, it's become such a running gag how helpless she is, that she's almost a parody that mocks sexism, if that makes any sense. I don't think she's having a negative influence on young girls in the same way that characters like Snow White and Cinderella do at least. She's about as harmful as the racial stereotypes in Punch-Out!! games are. They are so over the top, that nobody is really taking them seriously.
also the accuracy of resistive touch screens. see art academy and miiverse drawings