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Whenever people say Mario Kart might introduce more guest drivers in future installment, I always think it's weird to not talk about Mario Kart Tour as mobile is theoretically the most feasible platform to support this kind of idea.

We knew Tour's updates stopped at October 2023 and the service ended three years later. In another timeline, if Nintendo was actually considering the possibility of making guest drivers in order to earn more budget for World, would you support / feel indifferent / oppose it for any reason?

In earlier time, story mode seemed to be handheld's feature due to its raising system. But now since Switch era we've seen a couple of games that dedicates to story mode for both tutorials and unlockables. But I wonder, do fans find Mario sport stories enjoyable?

I think Mario sport stories' biggest challenge is they haven't really standed out as popular as other Mario stories from mainline or RPGs. Mario RPGs have richest story, while Mario platformer set the foundation of the franchise, which leave Mario sport stories to be the weakest link of all. Mario sport games just don't tend to have ambitious story subthemes like "Mario Golf : The Millennium Window". Tennis Aces seemed to have the ambition to write an epic story, but it didn't succeed simply due to the obviously low investment.

It's understandable that Mario sport games want to focus on the main gameplay and story is mere extra, but it could be more interesting if sport stories also get more development in order to be more unique and memorable so fans would not try to skip them.

I know the professional atheletes from earlier games are not fans' cup of tea as they don't seem as interesting as the fantasy world characters, but their biggest merit is how they bring original contents to expand the games. while recent Mario sport stories don't have the same investment to introduce new original contents in the same way Mario RPGs tend to do.

In fact, we've got a couple of original boss OCs like Snow King and King Scuttlebug, and it could had been better if the whole stories and themes totally dedicate to the OCs, and actually make OCs unlockable players as our prize for completing story mode. Could also work in the same way if they get to introduce notable villains like King K Rool or Captain Syrup, and use them as the main villains for a sport story.

We knew Japanese company Coly announced their own collaboration parody brand Sparklink Stars, as the second official parody franchise after Aniplex project Twisted-Wonderland.

So the question kinda came to my mind, we know Disney Princess is a giant branding today, but when it comes to boys they don't seem to go big on their own in comparison as the companies think making a parody version would cater to the market more. Do you think Disney princes have the potential to pull out their own branding in merch and media adaption, or it makes better sense to do parody version instead?

Still I do see some obvious factors behind the decision, one is sure that Japanese anime style is hot today and they don't think western cartoon artstyle would sell, second is Disney princes are mostly secondary roles in most stories so it'd be a challenge to write spinoff stories in their perspective.

The biggest concern I can see is, Disney parody boys are mostly single because they believe single characters would more conveniently attract fans for self insertion uses, but Disney's official princes and male protagonists were already dating so they cannot work out in that way. (Not sure if it's my bias, maybe fans wouldn't care about it that much?

Scenario: your company assign you to a special overseas project which is having a meeting with Nintendo and Illumination about next Mario movie, and you have the special right to ask for a character insertion for next Mario movie.

You cannot change the main plot of the next movie, but the character you suggest could still have a main role as a friend or foe.

Condition:

1. Sure it has to be a Mario universe character, either came from Super Mario licenses, spin-off series or other sibling franchises that exist within Mario universe, such as Diddy Kong Racing characters. ROB-wise guest characters from non-Mario world franchises are not available options here.
2. It has to be a character you predict to NOT happen in official movies, otherwise this character is not valid option. (E.g. you believe King K Rool will be the villain for DKC's independent movie, thus you cannot nominate him here)

Like three series combined this would be the strongest roster in entire videogame history, either Nintendo never realize it or they don't agree so.

Orbulon has been one of the early staple of Warioware series. I think he could really had made a good insertion in Galaxy movie.

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Yeah I know most members on this reddit have done him, I'll post next one soon.

King Bob-omb is really the biggest contender we have for a potential villain figure in official WoN line. Would be nice if he also gets the figure pack treat.

Definition: a country town set a very different gographical location with its unique landscape and climate, and even culture. For example, a dessert town with a western America theme, a nordic town or a south pacific island. In each theme you need to change the way of farming and you get to raise more different vegetables or animals.

I know SoS series had tried some themes in history, but it feels like you need to set up a typical farm in every game so you cannot go away with the very basic climate conditions, equipments and animals, and the upcoming NS2 game sneak peek also seems to follow this tradition. Would it be too difficult to do a new theme because that could possible fail to interest existed SoS fans?

While SM64DS is acknowledged as an official mainline title, I find it weird it seldom officially promoted as the expansion edition comparing to the SMB titles on NS1/2, where we have no reason to go back to play their original version. Might be my misconception but SM64 seems to appear more often in tributes or digital releases.

Well, with Yoshi and the hat system, SM64DS sure had a different story and game walkthrough from the original, but ultimately this version came with render update and new playable characters which are very close to the definition of expansion so it's get confusing sometimes.

I just think even if Nintendo don't consider them same game, they could still manage to do an integrated version with modes from both games. If they did, the recent SM64 digital release could had already include SM64DS contents within it and you don't have to pay twice for it.

Did Nintendo only view SM64DS as a variation rather than expansion because of its system? Or you think Nintendo want to stick to SM64 and don't acknowledge the new contents SM64DS added?

Well the standard answer is SMG4 team needs to move on to Glitch Production, that is sure correct, but I think we should highlight the other reason that is secondary but still major....

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I think videogames are not weighing as heavy as Hobo Bros had in Glitch Pro's mind today.

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I think SMG4 series served a very convincing proof about it, that with OCs more frequently introduced and fewer and fewer new videogame characters or stories take place, the production has realized they want to devote to their creation and imagination more than following modern videogames.

In the case of Hobo Bros, we could directly say they kinda lose the passion and inspiration to keep making videogame reaction videos when they just don't seem to be that interested. If SMG4 didn't feel the motive to adapt Tropical Freeze or Showtime into its' story arcs (especially with Peach's revival which was such a perfect chance for Showtime insertion), I find it also very unlikely for them to do live stream videos or reaction videos about these games in Hobo Bros.

As we also mentioned before, somehow the highly discussed franchises like Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy new gens don't have high presence in either SMG4 or Hobo Bros, so feels more like the team choose to not keep up with what gamers are into today.

I think it's acceptible for people to move on or change interests, it's not a bad thing if they are into different things today. My only critique is still that SMG4 late arcs could had used more Mario game or videogame contents, allow all Mario main cast and popular NIntendo Switch games to have a part in the final arc to keep its core as "videogame parody world".

Well maybe I'm wrong, I would love to see if Glitch Pro staff do still love videogames but just get no time to keep up. But I personally believe lack of will is the case.

I know it has been talked before, but I'm not sure if anyone really has a specific explanation about how this idea implements. So I try to figure it out:

*Within a typical 50~60 slots roster, every franchise would have at least two reps (including 3rd party), half is hero and half is villain. There are approximately 25 villains in the vs roster.

*Which means if a franchise gets a second rep, it would have to be a villain over a hero over a secondary hero or a sidekick.

*While some franchises like Wii Fit don't have villains so they can go with just heroes, they'd also have high risk of being eliminated from the roster as villains from other franchsies need take their slots.

*Pokemon is kinda arguable since it doesn't always have obvious definition of villains, but the rivals could be legendaries or partners of the bosses from the game.

While we'd get a certain amount of new villain fighters, we'd also lose a certain amount of secondary heroes we've got so far. Fire Emblem is an obvious case as it only has hero fighters and would have to cut quite a lot of existed heroes. We'd also have to cut several minor Nintendo franchises and 3rd party as exchange for second villains of other franchise. (E.g. cut Kazuya for Blinky, cut ROB for Glass Joe).

It sure wouldn't please fans who'd love to target or request secondary heroes (e.g. Falco, Midna etc), I also find that some fans don't always take the loss of secondary heroes or the potential cut of minor franchises into consideration. It feels like this idea can only be valid if most fans agree exchanging secondary heroes for villains would be a good bargain. I just think secondary heroes, such as Diddy Kong, Ike and Isabelle tend to have very big follow, that fans would unlikely agree to cut them as exchange for more villains.

I also think this would bring difficulty to future new franchises for Smash, as each new fighter must be paird with their rival and enter together and take two slots at one time.

Would this idea make a more interesting roster? Or you find the tranditional way of roster casting more diverse and interesting?