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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => Hardcore Gaming 101 => Topic started by: James Belmont on December 18, 2008, 01:44:51 PM
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I was thinking today about how Zelda has had both cartoony entries, and darker, more mature realistic entries, and for some reason, I was reminded of how the Zelda franchise and the Mario franchise were created by the same man.
So, out of sheer curiousity, I feel like posing the question: how would you guys feel if Mario got a similar treatment? A darker, more realistic approach, ala Ocarina of Time, or Twilight Princess.
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We already got a taste of serious/realistic Mario. The movie :P
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I can't imagine how a serious Mario game could be taken seriously. I mean Zelda has a fantasy motif. Mario has... a plumber and a pretty cartoony variety of characters.
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DON'T!
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SERIOUS Mario, eh? Sounds silly. Very silly. Kind of like trying to make Mickey Mouse SERIOUS. Oh wait...
EDIT: It took me until now to notice the typo...
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Bad idea! The most serious I want my Mario games is Mario RPG serious, which really isn't serious at all...
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A slightly darker Mario would work I think. It would be trippy and unnerving like Labyrinth crossed with Lord Of The Rings and stirred with Hellboy. Bowser would be intimidating, the goombas and troopas would be creepy, the Mushroom Kingdom would be other worldly.
If done right that is.
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Paper Mario: TTYD already worked as a slightly darker Mario(the Twilight Town stuff and the Shadow Queen revival).
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Mario would be hilarious if it were serious. I mean, it just can't be. The though of Mario bouncing around mushrooms and crap with a completely straight face makes me giggle. Thankfully, Nintendo isn't dumb/brave enough to try it, unlike Sega (recent Sonic games) and Konami/Hudson (Bomberman Act Zero).
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Yeah will leave this job to Youtube.
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I WANT IT!
Mario is from Brooklyn, right? That's what the magazines wrote about him in the 80's anyway. So, the idea of a gritty urban setting, with Mario being a fat italian plumber getting caught up in some... drama. Maybe they could make it a survival horror game set in the sewers of NYC :D
Haha, jesus christ the game would completely suck, but I want it nonetheless!
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I was thinking today about how Zelda has had both cartoony entries, and darker, more mature realistic entries, and for some reason, I was reminded of how the Zelda franchise and the Mario franchise were created by the same man.
So, out of sheer curiousity, I feel like posing the question: how would you guys feel if Mario got a similar treatment? A darker, more realistic approach, ala Ocarina of
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A serious mario... hmm..
I don't know how you could possibly make a serious mario, considering that the whole idea and concept of mario is that of a fun-loving, fat, jolly, comical italian plumber. Nintendo uses "mario and the gang" to get kids to buy their products. He's not exactly a dynamic character. Nintendo would need to flesh out his personality and give him deeper motives, a past, ambitions, hopes, etc.
It could, however, be quite innovative if it was ever made.
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I guess you guys haven't seen this. (http://therewillbebrawl.com/episodesEpisode1.php)
There Will Be Brawl.
Not intended for viewers under the age of 18.
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In Reply To #14
That was possibly the worst thing Ive ever seen
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What about Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time?
I found that game to have a pretty dark story, if not exactly original, and the music was a lot darker then I'm used to in a mario game (The Forest, Toad Town, and Star Hill was virtually transcendant.)
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In Reply To #14
I laughed at Kirby being Hannibal Lecter. Good stuff.
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What about Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time?
I found that game to have a pretty dark story, if not exactly original, and the music was a lot darker then I'm used to in a mario game (The Forest, Toad Town, and Star Hill was virtually transcendant.)
Yeah that game was good. Love the mario rpg games.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned smb and smb2jp? Doesn't get much darker than king koopa transforming all of the mushroom kingdom into dealers of death and sending them all after your head. All while he clones himself and places the clones in 7 other palaces that you must demolish your way through to get to the final one where you finally burn/throw him into a boiling pit of lava incinerating him and saving your woman.
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My idea of serious Mario would be a plumbing sim. I'd kill to see Mario do some plumbing as he IS a plumber (I got an ex who think's he isn't...and that Luigi isn't his brother.). And throw in Roddy Piper, straight outta alcatraz ready to make him an endangered species!
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I guess you guys haven't seen this. (http://therewillbebrawl.com/episodesEpisode1.php)
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EPIIIIIIIIIIIIC
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Yeah dat shit's funny.
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Drama would kill Mario. Though those SMB fortresses were pretty intimidating. Like being in an oven. Also those hammer brothers -- nightmare.