Bitter Nintendo tears

CM August · Post by **CM August** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 3:33 am

Why couldn't they copy Mario, Princess Toadstool and King Koopa while they were at it? I could actually tolerate those voices.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 3:57 am

Come to think of it, the voice casting for that show was pretty damn good. Especially for Bowser and Princess Toadstool (who sounded a lot more spoiled and bitchy than Peach, although most of the time she was just sort of annoyingly bemused by both the Mario Bros and Bowser's antics).

Gaz · Post by **Gaz** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 4:16 am

I don't know if anyone else has been watching the New Super Mario Bros. Podcasts but the latest one is an interview Mario. Let's just say that I'm happy that so far Nintendo has avoided including full voice acting in a Mario game.

The first Mario vs. Donkey Kong game was decent, so I hope for refined gameplay all around.

I liked the original Mario Vs Donkey Kong(it's one of my favourite GBA games) and I'm looking forward to the sequel but from what I've read it's supposed to be more of a Lemmings style game than a platformer. I'm still interested but I'm a little disappointed they've chosen to take the series in that direction.

Wooduck51 · Post by **Wooduck51** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:52 pm

Nintendo should've released this trailer of brawl also:Beta Footage

Post by **Crazy Penguin** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:03 pm

Like this, but with BBCode enabled:

[url=http://www.google.com]Google[/url]

Ritz · Post by **Ritz** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:19 pm

So, uh, there's some info about the Wii's Super Monkey Ball on Sega's site.

Well, I'm not too impressed so far. The art style isn't particularly appealing, the new minigames look like throbbing ass, and I don't like the idea of having bosses between worlds in Puzzle mode; something like that would completely interrupt the flow of the game, and I can't see them being much fun, anyway.

Also, bosses are a platformer thing. I really don't like how the series seems to be edging towards the platformer genre indefinitely. I mean, it's fine for a single spinoff title, but it just doesn't suit the series as a whole. It's charm stemmed from it's puzzle aspect alone (Along with a few of the minigames), it doesn't need battles and storylines.

Oh, and what the hell is up with Baby's cyber-goggles?

Gaz · Post by **Gaz** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:34 pm

The boxart for Mario Vs Donkey Kong 2 has been revealed. Looks OK I guess but nowhere near as good as the GameBoy Donkey Kong boxart.

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:49 pm

But then, what does?

Post by **Crazy Penguin** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:23 pm

It's pretty good, but I wish they'd stop drawing DK's limbs as a bunch of connected ovals. He only ever looked like that because of the crappy and severely dated mid 1990s style CG art. Same with the beady eyes and rubbery brow. They should be allowed to break free from that, especially when they're using flat art work.

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 5:55 pm

Personally, I'm just hoping Nintendo wakes up someday and realizes fans want Mario in his original costume. The red overalls are overdue for a return.

Post by **Crazy Penguin** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 6:57 pm

Amazing Grant wrote:Personally, I'm just hoping Nintendo wakes up someday and realizes fans want Mario in his original costume.

They do? Blue denim overalls make so much more sense.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 7:12 pm

Yeah, I like his blue overalls.

Sniffnoy · Post by **Sniffnoy** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:18 pm

I'm kind of surprised it didn't occur to anyone, when they originally made Mario, that it would make more sense if they swapped the colors.

FlashTHD · Post by **FlashTHD** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:29 pm

His overalls were blue in the original Donkey Kong. He was red and brown in SMB1 prolly due to the limited pallette.

Sniffnoy · Post by **Sniffnoy** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:40 pm

He was red and blue in the original Donkey Kong, but it was red overalls, blue shirt.

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:25 pm

I was kidding, you know.

Also eliminate Mario's brown hair! His mustache is black, why is his hair brown? All black or Nintendo gets a smack, I always say.

Madamluna · Post by **Madamluna** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:43 am

Amazing Grant wrote:I was kidding, you know.

Also eliminate Mario's brown hair! His mustache is black, why is his hair brown? All black or Nintendo gets a smack, I always say.

Wow, I can't believe I never noticed that until you mentioned it. Now I can never un-notice it and I really wish they'd make his hair black or his mustache brown or SOMETHING.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 9:58 am

Yeah, that is weird. I always just assumed his mustache was brown because I knew his hair was brown. Funny I assumed that considering his mustache is far more visible than his hair.

Post by **Squirrelknight** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:21 am

... I wonder what color Mario's pubes are.

Now try to get that image out of your head.

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:48 am

Facial hair isn't always the same colour as your actual hair. I've even known people with jet black hair and ginger beards. It's pretty funny.

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:58 am

For some reason, that seems to be a common occurrence (dark hair and red beard). One chum of mine unfortunately had an odd mix of dark and red hairs in his beard and it looked like a silly pirate leopard beard.

plasticwingsband · Post by **plasticwingsband** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:36 pm

When I have the facial hair in full force I am Red Beard, so Mario's hair discrepencies don't strike me as that odd.

Post by **Esrever** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:32 am

Weird. My beard is redder, too, although not SUPER red. (But then, my hair isn't super dark.)

Gaz · Post by **Gaz** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 5:24 am

For anyone hoping for a Mario/Final Fantasy crossover game it's finally happened(sort of). It seems the DS Mario Basketball game features Final Fantasy characters. Thankfully, none of them are from FFVII for once.

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 11:05 am

That's super weird. I'm kind of stuck between "Thank God, it's not a cameo from Link or Pikachu" and "...but, Final Fantasy? I mean, what? What the hell?".