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[maxcriden]

http://nintendonews.com/news/3ds/spaghettios-mario-party-star-rush-box-art/
http://gonintendo.com/stories/259569-random-time-mario-party-star-rush-boxart-comes-from-a-spaghet

Peach's agent confirmed she did not agree to the SpaghettiOs® appearance being used for future games. The Princess's lawyer, Purple Yoshi, noted they will pursue an out of court settlement with ND Cube, which they "expect to be completed prior to the game's release date."* Our representatives reached out to Mario and Luigi, but we could not get a clear comment beyond "Yip-ee" and "Wah, hah-hoo!" and whenever we tried to ask further, giant text informing us "Shine Get" appeared and impeded our progress. When we tried to approach a Red Toad (unsure if this was the Toad on the cover, because Toads are notoriously difficult to tell apart), Mario appeared from nowhere, bopped off the Toad's head, and as he let out a chirpy "AWH NOO," we figured it best to leave it alone.

*translated from Yoshi-ese by our esteemed Interpreter Friendly Floyd

(Speaking of which, what are you favorite video game food products?)

 

[Jakoo]

At least Toad donned a new red vest for the occasion.

 

[Nightbird]

Oh geez

 

[NOLA_Gaffer]

Probably not the final artwork I would guess.

 

[Jeffrey]

Is that the official box art and not placeholder? The checkered background looks like you have some layers hidden in photoshop.

 

[Zaventem]

You expect quality from a mario party game? Those days are long gone.

 

[bequietdrive]

The hunger is real.

 

[Azuardo]

They have done this a couple of times at least. Boom/Fortune Street was another.

 

[JebaćBiedę]

They rushed it.

 

[Vespa]

Copy pasta.

 

[Javier]

Star Rushed Cover.

 

[TanookiTom]

Copy pasta.

This have been first post, I loled.

 

[DrArchon]

Considering the "background" of the boxart, I'm going to assume this isn't final. If it is then that's utterly shameful, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for now.

 

[CrispyGoomba]

I'm surprised they went out of their way to change Toad's clothes to red and added a dice block.

 

[MarcoZombieCannon]

Looks like an unfinished box art more than anything. That transparency checkerboard...

 

[Chezzymann]

It seems to be a common thing used in Marko art. Not just from that can.

 

[Kurdel]

we eating tonight fam

 

[maxcriden]

Copy pasta.

 

[Tom Nook]

Dat Self plagiarism

 

[DuffDry]

Uh oh.

 

[maxcriden]

Dat Shelf plagiarism

FTFY
#MariYOLO

 

[hikarutilmitt]

Not to mention there are subtle differences with it aside from Toad's vest color. These are likely stock renders from Nintendo (they have a TON, I'm sure) and they threw them together in a typical fashion per their style guide.

That and this is still RP boxart, so it might not be final.

Also:

When we tried to approach a Red Toad (unsure if this was the Toad on the cover, because Toads are notoriously difficult to tell apart), Mario appeared from nowhere, bopped off the Toad's head, and as he let out a chirpy "AWH NOO," we figured it best to leave it alone.

*translated from Yoshi-ese by our esteemed Interpreter Friendly Floyd

(Speaking of which, what are you favorite video game food products?)

Fake reporter is racist confirmed!

 

[Cow Mengde]

Look at the picture, I thought it was a roll of toilet paper.

 

[Yoshi]

Is that the official box art and not placeholder? The checkered background looks like you have some layers hidden in photoshop.

It's Master System game.

 

[Chittagong]

I don't understand why new Mario box arts always look like they are on a transparent Photoshop layer. Layers > Flatten image goddammit

 

[BodiesWithoutOrgans]

obviously a place holder

 

[Mediking]

I cant even remember the last Mario Party I enjoyed... it was on GameCube... I think.

 

[Geg]

Is that the official box art and not placeholder? The checkered background looks like you have some layers hidden in photoshop.

Most recent Mario games have that for some reason. 3D World does and I think Captain Toad does too

 

[dlcnotincluded]

This is hilarious, did Nintendo think that no one would remember the design if they just color changed the Toad..

 

[jediyoshi]

Copy pasta.

damn

 

[oti]

wow

 

[Phediuk]

Was anyone really expecting Nintendo to bring their A-game to this one?

 

[GeeTeeCee]

Looks like an unfinished box art more than anything. That transparency checkerboard...

It's not as noticeable in this example, but they have used it before:

 

[DarkKyo]

I'm a bit exhausted by the current Mario art style. We've been looking at the same style of character render for yeeeaaaarss now and it's become so bleh and vanilla. The thing is I can't see it ever evolving again. It's not even the best style(my vote goes to Super Mario World era art) so it's unfortunate we have to look at this rendition of Mario for years to come. For how popular and successful Mario is, their marketing art sure is bland.

Say what you want about Sonic games but at least he goes through different art styles and concept revamps quite often.

 

[maxcriden]

Not to mention there are subtle differences with it aside from Toad's vest color. These are likely stock renders from Nintendo (they have a TON, I'm sure) and they threw them together in a typical fashion per their style guide.

That and this is still RP boxart, so it might not be final.

Fake reporter is racist confirmed!

Honestly, I don't think this reporter is racist.

http://www.mariowiki.com/Reporter_Ken

It's just hard for him because he can't see colors well.

 

[Joey Ravn]

Copy pasta.

Brutal.

 

[Azure Dream]

obviously a place holder

I'm not so sure of that.

I'm getting tired of that white/gray checkerboarding, it really does feel lazy at this point.

 

[Berordn]

I'm not so sure of that.

I'm getting tired of that white/gray checkerboarding, it really does feel lazy at this point.

The feel of SMB3 nostalgia.

 

[hikarutilmitt]

Honestly, I don't think this reporter is racist.

http://www.mariowiki.com/Reporter_Ken

It's just hard for him because he can't see colors well.

I also realized it was a translation. So... Purple Yoshis are racist? Or at least that one is. I mean, Toads are easy enough to tell apart form their vests, the pattern of their dots, the tonal changes in their voices, the game they happen to be appearing in in place of a more deserving character that everyone would rather use...

 

[maxcriden]

I also realized it was a translation. So... Purple Yoshis are racist? Or at least that one is. I mean, Toads are easy enough to tell apart form their vests, the pattern of their dots, the tonal changes in their voices, the game they happen to be appearing in in place of a more deserving character that everyone would rather use...

You got me to legit LOL at work

I don't think Purple Yoshi in this case is racist. I mean as a lawyer it would be in his best interest to seek all possible plaintiffs. Presumably identifying Toads is a bit more complicated than the criteria you mentioned, simply because there are so many Toads with the same vest, same dot pattern, same voices, and that appear in games in which they so richly deserve to be in.

 

[hikarutilmitt]

You got me to legit LOL at work

I don't think Purple Yoshi in this case is racist. I mean as a lawyer it would be in his best interest to seek all possible plaintiffs. Presumably identifying Toads is a bit more complicated than the criteria you mentioned, simply because there are so many Toads with the same vest, same dot pattern, same voices, and that appear in games in which they so richly deserve to be in.

Toads don't deserve to be playable in just about anything. They're a mistake. Nothing but trash.

 

[PumpkinSpice]

Something tells me the budget for this game was very small.

 

[GamerJM]

Dat Self plagiarism

Nintendo lookin like Nickelback

 

[FyreWulff]

first it was on can , now it's can on

 

[Terrorblot]

first it was on can , now it's can on

Post of the year right here.

 

[BRocknRolla]

Mario Party continuing to prove it's one of the laziest series in gaming. (I guess the last one was fairly different to be fair. It was just plain garbage though.)

 

[tim_pkmn89]

Mario Party continuing to prove it's one of the laziest series in gaming. (I guess the last one was fairly different to be fair. It was just plain garbage though.)

Except this new one is the most different of them all

 

[Pancake Mix]

I noticed.

That render of Peach is old and has been used elsewhere before, not just with that spaghetti.

 

[thecouncil]

absolutely unacceptable.

 

[BRocknRolla]

Except this new one is the most different of them all

Is this going to be the best Mario Party too? Dan Ryckert, is that you?