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Everyone knows that Mario is a prime example for the neverending struggle between an oppressing force and opressed forces fighting for their right. Disguised as a game about a plumber saving his Princes from the claws of a fire-breathing dinosaur turtle (clearly a metaphor for outdated or unrealistic forms of governments).
LOS ANGELES — Super Mario Galaxy 2 won’t have as deep a storyline as its predecessor, says Mario’s creator Shigeru Miyamoto.
Super Mario Galaxy, the 2007 game that marked the iconic mascot character’s first adventure on Wii, was notable for the fact that its narrative was much deeper than the series’ usual paper-thin, save-the-princess plot. But Miyamoto, in an interview with Wired.com at E3 2009, says he’s not a fan of putting story into Mario titles, and therefore he’s keeping the plot of Galaxy 2 to a bare minimum.
“I’d like to go with as little story as possible,” he said. “I’ve always felt that the Mario games themselves aren’t particularly suited to having a very heavy story.”
“I just feel that the Mario games are something that should be a much more bright and active experience,” he said. “With the Mario games, you don’t need to have such a complicated setting where you have these particular characters with complicated backstories that can weigh down the bright and fun feel of the game.”
Somewhat complicating matters is the fact that the director of the Mario games, Yoshiaki Koizumi, disagrees with Miyamoto’s story-free philosophy.
“Mr. Koizumi is the type of person who, whenever we’re working on a new Mario game, he always wants to bring more story elements into it, as he did with Super Mario Galaxy. But in talking with him this time, he agrees and feels that with Galaxy 2, there won’t be a need for as deep of a story,” Miyamoto said.
But does he really agree with his boss, or has Koizumi just been overruled? In an interview with Wired.com in 2007, Koizumi said that he’s been trying to sneak bits of story into Mario and Zelda games for his entire career at Nintendo, even as Miyamoto has been trying to keep them out.
I told Miyamoto about what Koizumi had said, and he looked slightly taken aback.
“He said that?”
“Yes.”
“Well, I put a stop to that at the beginning, this time,” he said, and for emphasis punched the air with his fist.
[tornado fang] RPGs. Play Platformers!
Lets see....a chick, covered in dripping hot cheese, with pepperoni nipples, crust hair & cameltoe, and peppercorn freckles.
I sometimes think Sky Child is a troll here for hating Megaman
just like all those idiots who didn't buy the N64 ram expansion.
I first saw it as the HFIL, or Home For Infinite Losers. God I love old DBZ censoring!
let's hope they keep Link left handed this time.
“The goal at this point is that we would make Wii MotionPlus required in order to play Zelda,” he said.
It’s reasonable to assume that Zelda’s use of MotionPlus might depend on how many of the devices Nintendo sells between now and the game’s far-off release date. But Miyamoto says that’s not actually the case.
“The bigger hurdle for us is not really whether people have a Wii MotionPlus or don’t have it, it’s whether or not the experience is one where people will think they want to have a Wii Motion Plus in order to experience it,” he said.
“There may be a group of people out there who look at people playing motion control games and have a hesitancy to try to play those because they’re worried that they might not look so cool, swinging a Wii remote around. But in watching people play New Super Mario Bros. Wii, even though it’s just a simple shaking motion, I’m watching people play (it) with a big grin on their face.”
“So I’m hoping that we might be able to create a similar-feeling experience for Zelda,” he said.
“The development of Zelda has been focused strictly on the gameplay structure at this point. We haven’t devoted much in the way of efforts to things like graphical representation, and story, and those types of production elements,” he said.
I want a 1:1 sized super galaxy gurren lagann
My speed knows no match. I have to slow myself down just to make sure I don't go through time.
