u/Dorayakiss

First of all, consider the movie length is not long enough to conclude the entire videogame history, it's forseeable for some plot to be shortened or skipped in movie adaption.

But Yoshi obviously cannot get a proper favor as his debut is set to be within Galaxy, which is actually Rosalina's story. It leads to inevitable conflict between Yoshi's debut, which is supposed to a major role, and his actual supporting role in Galaxy's mainstory. On the other hand, Bowser Jr got the second most important role among the new faces, which makes Yoshi's existence even weaker.

Despite Yoshi always shows his support for the main characters, it's more like the plot expected audience to already knew what kind of character Yoshi is on the basis of videogames, and doesn't want to pay too much time to explain how he and Mario bros build their friendship and trust.

As for worldbuilding, Yoshi's origin was entirely skipped from the movie story as well. Altho the Galaxy story went through the Dino Planet for the sake of tribute to the events of Yoshi's Island, but at the end of day it's still not Yoshi's actual homeland and that doesn't give Yoshi's story too much depth.

The only way I can see redemption is making a Yoshi's own movie which entirely focuses on Yoshi's own story and his hometown without Mario bros' participation, but I don't think Nintendo already think that far at this moment.

Do you think the movie worked with Yoshi? Or you think it could had done better? Or you think the second movie should focus on Yoshi directly?

Everyone's favorite Goomba, Goombella is here! I always think she's the best representative of a female Goomba and would be well recieved if she returns to more new games.

Tbh I'm abit dissapoiting Nintendo give the owner setting to Wart which means Waluigi needs to have a different job, but in a second thought Waluigi might just prefer to be a normal
gambler than an owner.

So what would he do if he gets into Wart's casino?

Honestly not too much custom here, only being a sticker on a small toy canvas. Piano is from a different toy line. Recently someone has shared Bowser's popcorn cauldron on this subreddit.

*Light spoiler about Illumination movie series, but wouldn't bother too much in comprehension.

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Altho, technically Mario and Peach are still in the safe zone of friendship, Galaxy movie story pushed it really far, with obvious hinting on Mario's feel for Peach which is something we didn't really have in games over the years.

That yet again remind us of the 1989 movie story when Nintendo determined to not make Mario and Peach a couple, but after that, we don't really see Mario and Peach keep dating other characters in following games or cartoon adaption.

A potential assumption could be that, even though Nintendo wanted to friendzone Mario and Peach at first, they found out that they had no intention to bring Peach's boyfriend (Haru, by the 1989 story) and Mario's girlfriend (likely Pauline, by the original DK arcade story) into Super Mario's main storytelling, and as long as Peach remains as the face of the franchise, the situation sorta forces the producers to forget about the forsaid setting and keep pushing Mario and Peach as the key characters of following games, before they incline to shipping in modern era.

Do you think there are some other reasons for Nintendo's change in mind? Was it too late for them to change it?

Okay, straight to the point, with the series ending we can conclude that despite SMG4 story is set within Super Mario world, at the end there are still almost 80% contents that didn't show up, or didn't get fully utilized in SMG4's adaption or story arcs.

I think it is especially weird for SMG4 team being videogame / Super Mario fans--- assume they are. Or is it more correct to assume that they're not really passionate Mario fans?

"Because they want to focus on the main cast", well I can forsee this answer, but I don't think that would stop most Mario characters from participating as key characters or background. Or could say there is more potential to have SMG4 main cast participate in more Super Mario world events and inspire more stories.

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I'd give a classfication to sort out what potentials we missed:

1) Wario series

I've mentioned this one in several posts and it worthes to mention again. Warioware is literally SMG4's typical taste, so not only it's a waste to not use it, but even more surprising to see SMG4 team not showing passion to utilize it as if their preference is the opposite of this series. There is just too much potential for fun story if SMG4 cast meet Warioware cast in person.

And what makes it more bizzare is Waluigi arc. As we know, Wario series is the entire reason why Wario is invited / why Waluigi isn't invited to Smash. It'd be very illogical to ignore Wario series settings if we break the 4th wall and use fan perspective to argue over Waluigi's and Wario's qualification for Smash.

I assume SMG4 team clearly knew it when they have Waluigi use Ashley's stick, so it feels more like a sign they want to avoid using them in real story. But that doesn't really help the story if they refuse to deal with the qualification issue.

2) Mario Golf 64, Tennis 64, Diddy Kong Racing and DKC 64

You might ask why I list these games together? Well, they're all N64 console games.

As we know, SMG4 was built on bloopers with Gmod which imports the assets of Super Mario 64. But to my surprise, we've never really seen the athlete characters from Golf and Tennis, and DKC series characters imported to Gmod.

I know the early bloopers still worked out, but I always think it's a miss for SMG4 to not also import the useable characters for more diverse background civillains along with the OCs they created via re-coloring Mario's textures. It could had been sweet if we can have characters like Plum, Alex and the animal friends pay a visit to Peach's castle from time to time, and eventually participate in modern story arcs with updated renders.

3) Main cast

Sure, it's no brainer to see some characters are way less utilized than the rest. While Peach being sealed for the most of time in late story arcs is an obvious issue, quite many notable main characters like Daisy and Pauline are also very underused.

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Of course, not all Super Mario fans are passionate with every single game within this franchise, and this sure could be the case for SMG4 team. If entirely based on the execution, it feels like SM64 and Mario are the only part that the team consistently take care of and they might not have that much experience with the rest of Super Mario videogames.

But for a web series of hundred episodes, it's overall a huge miss to leave so much Super Mario contents untouched, cause this series might had been longer by using more Mario contents.

*Light spoiler about Illumination movie series, but wouldn't bother too much in comprehension.

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Altho, technically Mario and Peach are still in the safe zone of friendship, Galaxy movie story pushed it really far, with obvious hinting on Mario's feel for Peach which is something we didn't really have in games over the years.

That yet again remind us of the 1989 movie story when Miyamoto determined to not make Mario and Peach a couple, but after that, we don't really see Mario and Peach keep dating other characters in following games or cartoon adaption.

A potential assumption could be that, even though Miyamoto wanted to friendzone Mario and Peach at first, he found out that he has no intention to bring Peach's boyfriend (Haru, by the 1989 story) and Mario's girlfriend (likely Pauline, by the original DK arcade story) into Super Mario's main storytelling, and as long as Peach remains as the face of the franchise, the situation sorta forces Miyamoto to forget about the forsaid setting and keep pushing Mario and Peach as the key characters of following games, before he inclines to shipping in modern era.

Do you think there are some other reasons for his change in mind?

Okay, starting from now this project will also include some new characters I obtained from commisions.

It's no wonder Captain Syrup is a very memorable being both due to her beauty and the first ever female lead villain in Super Mario world, and is always considered as a miss for main cast potential. Sadly, for now it's unlikely for Jakks to do any character that isn't considered as a major Super Mario core regular unless she manages to make a major official return.

Argh, clearly it's not my creation but r/pokuspumpkin's instead. Owing to that I'll post another one later.

I'd say it's still a huge miss for him to not make it into WoN via the Galaxy movie entry. Still, since his size is theoretically unfeasible for regular figure packages, I assume he'd be a pack inclusion in the timeline where he joins WoN.

It's hard to give a good definition, but I'll try:

*A story that comes with multiple protagonists, who know each other and get to interact with each other's love interest or sub characters.

*Therefore, it cannot be seperate groups from different regions, time or different gens (e.g. Tokimeki series).

*Don't need to be exactly in same game disk, seperate game disks and sequels count.

Clearly multiple protagonists isn't a major trend in either otogames or boy's romance sims, likely because it's both not easy in storywriting as well as difficult in pleasing major otomegamers.

It should still be technically possible to promote a sub character girl from the original game and tell her own romance in a spin-off game, but looks like most game developers don't find this idea interesting.

What's your take on this genre overall? Do you think it could be applied more often?

holy shit

It's another easy re-paint job, altho needs to find a proper bead on the top of head.

Lubba's scale happens to fit in the official yo-yo, and it's a weird concidence that Nintendo deleted her from the movie adaption despite of her original role. She could had really been an official product if Nintendo had love for her IMO.