I certainly hope so.
This is true if you made a beeline for the exit every single time, which is honestly fair enough for the obstacle course level designs that the Galaxies and the 3D games offer. , but doesn't take the sheer wealth of content those games have fully into account- I don't know anyone at all who played Galaxy or 3D Workd and put it down after 5 hours. They've also repeatedly played up the open, sandbox nature of this game- 5-10 hours for a game of this type would be incredibly short. I should certainly hope it's a longer game than Captain Toad, frankly.
"Luncheon" is a real word, used today. Typically a midday banquet. Used frequently in award ceremonies and business meetings.
Yeah, I think they're going for a Pompeii theming, judging by the Greco-Roman ruins you can see in some screenshots, and of course the presence of a volcano. I have to say, this is one of the most interesting "lava" worlds I've seen in videogames.
Me too and I have to say that the New Donk Theme may be the one Kondo composed:
This has probably already been discussed, but can someone identify the game's referenced in this pic:
The volcano itself would seem like an allusion to popping champagne bottles, if not for the pot on top. Whatever the intended imagery may be, it sure looks cool. I like how the bright pastel colors and highly stylized low-poly look contrasts with the photorealism of New Donk City. Crazy they share the same continent.I figured out what Mt. Volbono means.
Volbo means vault (jump) in Esperanto. It's used in the Esperanto word volbopato which means wok (asian round-bottomed cooking pan. And obviously it's combined with Volcano.
Mount Volbono is a volcano with a cooking pot on top. Not exactly a wok, but volbopato is the closest word to volcano for a pun. Plus it works on another level since volbo means vault and Mario does a lot of vaulting.
There are also shops and roads named after Diddy, Dixie, K. Rool, Espresso, Squawks, etc.
I'm having a hard time seeing the bottle on the map. Could you draw it in?
Oh, wow! Good eye. I kept looking at the main continent that Luncheon and Metro share, thinking you guys were saying Luncheon was the champagne, which would make Metro the bottle. I didn't see that peninsula there. Nice!
Even better! The themes for each kingdom are pretty broad, so there's a lot of room for variety in the locales.
This is what I'm currently expecting. One named world per kingdom. The reason why the worlds have a name separate from their host kingdom is just because it's nice world-building detail, much like the named sub-locations within each world (each checkpoint flag has a name for its area), and also seen in the detailed travel brochures describing points of interest in each world on the map screen. They want you to feel like you're a tourist in an actual place.
It lists some of them. We know from gameplay footage there are others not listed on the map.
