I think it says a lot for the quality of Mario World's OST that it was literally only a few years ago that I found out the level themes were mostly comprised of the same melody. Aside from the Athletic version of the main level song, I didn't even notice.
I feel the reason it doesn't seem like it fits is because:
Also Ori is more of a meditative, atmospheric exploration game. Its musical style fits that very well, but wouldn't fit a fast-paced obstacle course platformer, Mario or otherwise. Imo, of course.
For me this was realizing that Slider and Snow Mountain are extremely liberal remixes of the Mario 64 main theme.
Taking this as a tacit admission of having never played a Donkey Kong Country game, tbh.
I mean, Tropical Freeze. Fast-paced yet atmospheric to the bone.
I hope so. Sometimes i think that they have great ideas but these are a bit underexploited due to not wanting to overwhelm the players, i want them to go crazy in the post game at least. One can argue that you can go crazy without craking up the difficulty but both would be nice.
......jesus christ
Ah dang, yall're right huh. What's wild is DKC2 is one of my favorite platformers and OSTs ever yet the series still slipped my mind thereI mean, Tropical Freeze. Fast-paced yet atmospheric to the bone.
Altho it still is a platformer with a different, more complicated look.
It’s something I’ve thought about too. It’s hard to judge until after Wonder comes out but I would like to see them get really wild with the structure, like how 3D Mario games can be incredibly different from each other. But my main hope is Wonder makes 2D Mario feel special again.Is it too soon to wonder where 2D Mario can go after this?
My sentiments exactly. I wonder how they could evolve 2D Mario henceforth
No but hey Nintendo if you're listening I'd totally accept an email like this
Mario land 2 does the exact same thing except almost every single song uses that one theme.
yet
Yeah, the bosses outside Bowser, Jr and Kamek (most likely) are a complete mystery.
It's strange, because according to the ESRB rating the bosses have more involved combat and smash pieces of the scenery. Wouldn't they want to show that off just a little bit? It's kinda making me worried.
We also have King Boo, but that's up in the air is to whether it's a boss battle or just a regular Wonder event.
Why would it make you worries? It just seems that they want keep certain things a surprise.
This is the same company that intentionally hid the entirety of the Depths in TotK. I wouldn’t worry much.
I get that, but not marketing the boss battles in a Mario game just feels strange. I guess I'm just worried that it's going to be Bowser Jr with a different power in every battle, or maybe the Koopalings again. I actually saw a theory from Nin10doland of all people that I really liked that said the bosses could be super-sized versions of normal enemies, which would be super cool.
I'm totally down for them pulling a Yoshi's Island.
The one thing I am most certain about is that the Koopalings will not be here. Every previous 2D Mario had shown their appearance either through their marketing or through the intro cutscene. Just like the original NSMB, they were nowhere to be found in the opening cutscene. That game had original bosses outside of Junior and Bowser. Nintendo has never kept them a secret throughout any game that had them.
Being excited and knowing there will be surprises in a 2D Mario game in the year of our lord 2023. Who would've thought?
I can’t believe that was even a thought being considered by some…
AI??? Lmao this was actually serious?
If they were a store employee and had a modded switch it could've been as simple as taking the new demo cart, putting it in their own switch, and dumping it like any other game.
I'm just a tiny bit pissy now about Doug dangling Ashly Burch in front of us like thatYep, someone has access to the demo build, though they don't appear to be interested in releasing their dump online (and the demo itself is mostly missing content past World 1 anyway, so no fear of endgame spoilers for now). I've gone through the provided cast list and have most of the roles down:
By process of elimination here our new Mario and Luigi is, most likely, Mick Wingert! Given there's only three male American actors and one is Kenny James, technically it's worth considering Afghani as well; but his Genshin character sounds pretty close to the flower so i'm fairly confident.
As for the rest; Samantha Kelly, Kenny James and Caety Sagoian are here; the latter two are certainly reprising their usual roles. Technically it's possible, given she has multiple roles, that Samantha Kelly is only voicing the Toads now and Peach is someone else, but I think it's fair to assume it's still her for now. Yoshi and Daisy appear to have been definitively recast though; disappointing Deanna Mustard hasn't been given any fanfare at all if she'll no longer be involved with the series, her and Kazumi Totaka were the longest running Mario VAs behind Charles himself. Nabbit was already given a different voice awhile ago with NSMBU Deluxe and Mario Kart Tour but neither game has voice credits so we still don't know who it is (or if it's even the same person now).
All of the remaining American VAs have voiced for Fire Emblem before, so they'd certainly be on NoA's list. Pick between Daisy, Yoshi, Nabbit, Prince Florian and the Poplins (possibly Peach if you still think she's been recast) for who they could possibly be voicing.
If Rosalina is somewhere in the game like people expect she'd need to be recast; Laura Faye Smith isn't here either.
I was rather confident that the entire voice cast was getting wiped after they officially announced Martinet was gone; Daisy and Yoshi also sounded off to me in the initial reveal trailer and Peach sounded off to me as well in the Princess Peach Showtime showcase during the most recent Nintendo Direct. Because of this, I'm a little surprised to see that Samantha Kelly is still around.Yep, someone has access to the demo build, though they don't appear to be interested in releasing their dump online (and the demo itself is mostly missing content past World 1 anyway, so no fear of endgame spoilers for now). I've gone through the provided cast list and have most of the roles down:
By process of elimination here our new Mario and Luigi is, most likely, Mick Wingert! Given there's only three male American actors and one is Kenny James, technically it's worth considering Afghani as well; but his Genshin character sounds pretty close to the flower so i'm fairly confident.
As for the rest; Samantha Kelly, Kenny James and Caety Sagoian are here; the latter two are certainly reprising their usual roles. Technically it's possible, given she has multiple roles, that Samantha Kelly is only voicing the Toads now and Peach is someone else, but I think it's fair to assume it's still her for now. Yoshi and Daisy appear to have been definitively recast though; disappointing Deanna Mustard hasn't been given any fanfare at all if she'll no longer be involved with the series, her and Kazumi Totaka were the longest running Mario VAs behind Charles himself. Nabbit was already given a different voice awhile ago with NSMBU Deluxe and Mario Kart Tour but neither game has voice credits so we still don't know who it is (or if it's even the same person now).
All of the remaining American VAs have voiced for Fire Emblem before, so they'd certainly be on NoA's list. Pick between Daisy, Yoshi, Nabbit, Prince Florian and the Poplins (possibly Peach if you still think she's been recast) for who they could possibly be voicing.
If Rosalina is somewhere in the game like people expect she'd need to be recast; Laura Faye Smith isn't here either.
