Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam
This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam.
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This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam.
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Miyamoto is mostly irrelevant in Mario development now. He only works on his own little Nintendo funded games. Even with Sticker Star, he only suggested to have less story in it. Intelligent Systems went full Unintelligent Systems and removed all of it. Miyamoto's role is now more of a gameplay consultant than a lead developer like he once was. Also during Miyamoto's regime, games had new gameplay and created formulas instead of being formulaic.Multiverseman said:IMO, I blame Miyamoto for most Mario games being formulaic drivel. From the stuff I've read, whenever Nintendo's teams tried to do something creative or the like with the Mario games after Super Paper Mario, Miyamoto would intervene. It happened with Super Mario Galaxy 2, and it happened again with Sticker Star, and I'm guessing it was also the case here...
I'm not quite sure how much freedom one has to reject ''suggestions'' from Miyamoto. From what I heard IS was working on a successor of thousand year door and had their work rejected by Miyamoto and then given the suggestions that led to Sticker star becoming Sticker star. That along with a phrase about Miyamoto being ''strict'' on them gives me more the image of a tight leash then mere suggestions.BiH-Kira said:Miyamoto is mostly irrelevant in Mario development now. He only works on his own little Nintendo funded games. Even with Sticker Star, he only suggested to have less story in it. Intelligent Systems went full Unintelligent Systems and removed all of it. Miyamoto's role is now more of a gameplay consultant than a lead developer like he once was. Also during Miyamoto's regime, games had new gameplay and created formulas instead of being formulaic.Multiverseman said:IMO, I blame Miyamoto for most Mario games being formulaic drivel. From the stuff I've read, whenever Nintendo's teams tried to do something creative or the like with the Mario games after Super Paper Mario, Miyamoto would intervene. It happened with Super Mario Galaxy 2, and it happened again with Sticker Star, and I'm guessing it was also the case here...
I blame other old developer in Nintendo being too afraid to do drastic changes to existing IPs. For a good reason. Don't fix what's not broken, and Mario certainly isn't. He's still printing money.
And it kinda makes sense to be formulaic the way Nintendo does it. When they change up the formula, they make a new game series out of it. Not in the same series. That's why we have all the different Mario games. Party, racer, RPG, 2D and 3D platformer... Almost got an TPS but it thankfully ended up as a new IP because I like the squid kids more than the Mario bloopers.
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That ending. Mario truly has the deepest lore.
He's been doing them kind of sporadically for a while now. Maybe it's getting to be too much work with the all the other series/projects he's working on.Bedinsis said:I'm not at a place where I can watch the video right away, and I don't know where else to ask this, so:
Where was the Extra Punctuation column this week? Shouldn't it have come out yesterday?
In the meantime, I think a group of people made a texture mod for a higher resolution UI, so you could just run it in Dolphin until a proper re-release comes around.Catasros said:to be honest, the Thousand Year Door is one of those games I really hope gets re-released seeing as it's a game I never had the chance to play. And considering that most people seem to really love it, I'm surprised Nintendo has yet to put it up on the eshop, the cost of prettying it up a bit'd be payed off by the end of day one of release. But maybe that's just my wishful thinking...
Apparently it's because "New" (in English) sounds fancy and exotic in the Japanese market, and NOA didn't think "maybe we should rename it something sensible for the English-speaking market."Jonathan Cowie said:There is a new 3DS called the New 3DS (most confusing name ever) with a second little analog stick sort of nub in case you care. There was also one that came with Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate which I know you don't care about, even if giant monster fights are far more common than in Tri (as in every mission with a couple of exceptions more common).