Tearaway Unfolded looked great on a big screen, so I'm hoping for some creative use regarding the paper aesthetic. I have never played a Paper Mario game, so I don't really care what they do, as long as it's good.
Anyway, I don't see why a guideline would say "make the most empty-feeling / bland game ever". They had a good thing going up until after Super Paper Mario. If they aren't even going to try, then let Square make Super Mario RPG 2.
The reason is actually simple and Nintendo told us that many times: they are establishing Mario as a brand for a broader audience. This means that they are aiming at:
-simplicity
-clarity
-consistency
When you think at "Mario" some immediately recognizable elements must come out.
And remember that Nintendo already tried that in the '80s and '90s, even with two movies (because there was even a feature-long anime), but they took the exactly opposite approach and that didn't end well, as the infamous Super Mario Bros. movie and the notKoopalings with notBowser of the western cartoon showed us, along with Hotel Mario, Mario is Missing, Mario's Game Gallery, the comics that showed Mario with swimming underwear and so on.
P.S.: remember that the directors and executive producer on Square's part of Super Mario RPG now work at AlphaDream, and Yoko Shimomura composes for the Mario & Luigi games as well!
And I don't see what a bad movie and bad games (not even made by Nintendo) have to do about it...
"What we really want to do is we want people to want to interact with our IP. And so we want to increase the frequency with which they encounter our IP, whether that's through them parks, or merchandize with our IP, or just images and visual interactions with Nintendo IP."
"A variety of popular characters, including Mario and Link, appear in Nintendo’s video games and these characters are the source of Nintendo’s IP value.
By increasing the number of people who have access to this Nintendo IP or video game characters, music and world view, and by increasing the value of Nintendo IP, we aim to further expand the gaming population. "
Tatsumi Kimishima
"As the “Fellow” who oversees the Nintendo’s entire software production, while working on unique game software developments, I am also in a position to conceive and execute unique plans that uses Nintendo IP, and I have always been hoping to maximize the company’s profits by proactively using this IP. As the first tangible example of our proactive use of IP, we released amiibo last year, and as Mr. Kimishima explained during his presentation today, amiibo has already been contributing to the company’s financial performance. Just as this amiibo example shows, Nintendo’s proactive use of its IP is to improve its business performance by taking advantage of Nintendo IP in a variety of ways, not by limiting use to merchandise licensing activities. For example, this is one of the objectives of deploying our IP on smart devices but it includes our attempt to increase the awareness of Nintendo by delivering our messages to people whom we have not been able to communicate with when deploying our IP on dedicated game systems."
Shigeru Miyamoto
@DarthNocturnal: I'm just trying to understand the reason for this unexplicable trend, because I too cannot really understand it.
Brand management is the only reasonable explanation I can find, also for the famous retcon of the Koopalings, for Yoshi being considered just a Yoshi and not a dinosaur and so on...
Thanks. Even though the Paper Mario U rumor was leaked a few hours later I was still hoping for something a little more concrete to come out yesterday. Not like a official announcement but more then just a passing statement.
But haven't the cynics, haters, hipsters, and conspiracy theorists been telling us the Wii U is dead and nothing new is coming in 2016 because they know the NX is just around the corner?
@Action51
They have been saying many things.... And most of them then "hope" the NX has backwards compatibility with the Wii U, because they like the games but they don't want the Console.... XD
@Luna_110: or those very same people who are convinced that Zelda U is an NX game. Obviously, because the evidence is overwhelming. There are even some people in that bracket who still think that Zelda U isn't being released on Wii U. Somehow. I'm just looking forward to playing what great games there are left and getting the most out of a system I believe has been worth every penny I've spent on it.
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