I'm sure it will be fine. We said the same things when the first 3D World trailer came out.
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Super Mario Odyssey Announced (Holiday 2017)
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I'm sure it will be fine. We said the same things when the first 3D World trailer came out.
That people are realistic next to him is the whole point. In that level, Mario is visiting our world and in this case New York City.
Red Liquorice
Member
The cap mechanic looks like a classic Mario idea that could be incorporated from now on, instantly obvious how it's used and already a part of his design. Love it.
Nostremitus
Member
So... Mario Odyssey... Anyone else notice Mario walking through the Lost Woods from Majora's Mask's intro?
kidding, but there is a resemblance.
Joeshabadoo
Member
Uh, raitaro sir. Please take a deep breath. They very clearly talked about how this game is about Mario traveling to a variety of dimensions/universes that are out of his element. Would make nonsense if the people in the urban environment resembled him dimensions wise.
If you just don't like the look of the human models, well that's a different thing
Your post also reads like the urban environment is the core of the game. It isnt. Part of a diverse melting pot
If you just don't like the look of the human models, well that's a different thing
Your post also reads like the urban environment is the core of the game. It isnt. Part of a diverse melting pot
Eh, technically, the Yoshi Island series retconned that. Mario is a human from the Mushroom World that later grew up in Brooklyn if we follow the Mario Deep Lore.
Wow really surprised at so many negative reaction. Just watched the presentation and was expecting GAF to go crazy over how good this looks. It easily sold me on the Switch and I skipped 3D World. This looks like exactly what people have been asking for, an open world adventure Mario. And it all feels very fresh.
Hopefully they manage to polish the graphics a bit before release but otherwise it looks amazing.
Hopefully they manage to polish the graphics a bit before release but otherwise it looks amazing.
plasmawave
Banned
They're obviously going for the Roger Rabbit's style. Mario and those people are from separate dimensions.
Trigonometrize.
Member
Coming off of Galaxy 2, NSMBU, and 3D World, while all great, felt kinda safe in their own ways. This is so weird and I love it for it.
I was talking about the trailer not the game as a whole. Like tease people into thinking it's something else for a few seconds and then drop the Mario bomb.
me too. the switches in art style and worlds is just...weird...i guess i'm so used to mario existing in worlds that look like he belongs, seeing him, unchanged, in a low poly worlds, or pikmin style worlds, or a "realistic" city setting is strange to me. i'd have preferred it if with each change to the art style they adapted mario to fit in stylistically. so low poly mario running around. or a more realistically rendered mario. etc
Trigonometrize.
Member
That sounds even weirder to me.
I don't like the city gameplay that much, it feels off. But the game sure looks promising though!
My favourite moments are when the game goes full Mario Galaxy.
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I need a Galaxy Collection.
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Deleted member 30609
Unconfirmed Member
it's so, so nice to see Nintendo taking some big risks with this and Zelda. It isn't back to the old tricks again. Really cool stuff.
Chuck Norris
Banned
But he's a human from New York City to begin with?
No he's not.
I love the juxtaposition of Mario in realistic or surreal environments, it feels surreal and I love it. It seems as if his flying craft allows him to travel to different worlds or dimensions, which in its self is very reminiscent of Mario 64's Paintings and Sunshine's Ink Portals. I'm excited to see what other crazy out there places they let us visit. I do feel the urban environment is the least inspired but it still looks awesome.
Isn't it possible that they just made a "realistic city level" with the clashing artstyle and decided to show it in the trailer because it's something new for the series?
I mean, it's not like the whole game looks like that.
This is exactly what they were going for.
I mean, it's not like the whole game looks like that.
This is exactly what they were going for.
Yet, the problem with that is that he is supossed to be from our world already, from Brooklyn to be precise, not the Mushroom Kingdom like most people - including Nintendo - seem to think for some reason. In that sense, all the humans shown here should look more or less like him, not us.
Why make his origin story that he is a cartoony human plumber from Brooklyn who ends up in the Mushroom Kingdom by accident, to then create another version of NY called New Donk City that is actually the one we ourselves know and is inhabited by actual humans? This makes no sense save for Nintendo simply forgetting their own Mario lore (similar perhaps to how the Splatoon devs for some reason had not thought about Bloopers and how they look similar to the Inklink squids...)
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Deleted member 30609
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lmao mario lore
Yes he is. At least he was at the time of Donkey Kong and (non-super) Mario Bros.
We don't need books full of it, no, but it would be nice if Nintendo could at least acknowledge the little bit of lore and backstory they themselves created all those years ago. Some of us do care about that, yes.
Gangster Bastard
Member
He's from New York City in a different universe.
LoganNotABoganYouKnowIt!!
Neo Member
Mario's birthplace is New Donk City. He was born to Peach and Bowser.
I mean, if it hasn't been clear already but his original origin story written in a booklet 30 years ago has been abandoned a long time ago. He is from Mushroom Kingdom and that's it.
Yeah, kind of funny.
Captain Smoker
Member
This game looks brilliant. 
I'm sure we all remember Baby Mario being dropped off in New York City at the end of Yoshi's Island.
They actually said that? Cause it's pretty insulting to SMG.
Chuck Norris
Banned
I mean there's no real lore to Mario but
^ "Now with Mario, I think with Mario Bros. we had a setting of course that was underground, so I just decided Mario is a plumber. Let's put him in New York and he can be Italian. There was really no other deep thought other than that." Snyder, Mike (November 11, 2010.Q&A: 'Mario' creator Shigeru Miyamoto.
http://content.usatoday.com/communi...mario-creator-shigeru-miyamoto/1#.VvWjUno0F4M
So he's originally a New York based Italian Plumber, wrecking shit in the sewers
I can't tell if this is parody or not, but the Mario Odyssey page says its "the first sandbox-style Mario game" since those titles.
This "real 3D Mario" thing is as contrived now as it was then.
If you are joking, then you got me.
Galaxy is fantastic but theres a clear difference between the linearity of galaxy and the open exploration of mario 64.
They said that this is a continuation of the 64/Sunshine line of games, that's all they said.
ShockingAlberto
Member
I honestly can't tell who is trolling or who is getting caught up by trolls or if you're both trolling and are thinking you're trolling the other person or
Mohonky
Member
That was actually my first impression!
Some of the areas looks as expected, then other areas it was like this weird juxtoposition between the style of Mario and the environment.
This trailer didnt actually do a lot for me.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Not a fan of this. Like, this getting really close to sonic. At least mario wont fall in love with a realistic looking human.What the fuck?!
All the other settings looked great
EmCeeGramr
Member
No, they simply said it's the first large sandbox style game since 64 and Sunshine. They did not validate any weird "those games don't count as REAL 3D Mario" hangups.