When I watched the Switch 2 trailer, I thought the "mouse" was supposed to be ice skates, and thought that Nintendo were just suddenly on an ice skating kick and thought ice skates were the future. Which is like... not on-character as much as flanderised, but also makes more sense than quite a few prior Nintendo gimmicks (probably just because it's basically just attributing a different origin to the same gimmick lmao)
that said i LOVE it comparatively to the rest of the mario cast , if he looked like this in every spin-off going forward i’d adore it
granted , im a bit reluctant to believe this is a permanent redesign — especially considering they just opened the dkc expansion to universal parks w/ the old one , but im vry curious :>