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Or just make a new character that's dark skinned. Daisy has been established as a white woman for all of her 35 year-long existence. She is tanned in newer releases, but why settle for an arbitrarily darkened Daisy? They have to make an actual human character that's not white from the beginning.
Please, it's Mario Kart 9. Even if they don't name it as such.
MK8D is better than this lol
Sluggers threw in every character that had a 3D model lying around and then some. And the DK bias was very much appreciated.
I agree. Presumably Mario Baseball had huge rosters because there had to be 18 unique characters in every match, so expecting around 48 characters for a game that will have 24 unique characters per race feels like a reasonable expectation, especially if they pull MK Tour shenanigans.
I mean I don't think anyone's saying it's ONLY possible on the Switch 2, but it is the (or at least one of the) new thing for this official Mario Kart game lol
I would call it Mario Kart 9 if Nintendo didn't say Mario Kart Tour was Mario Kart 9.
Mario Kart changes naming conventions all the time anyway, it's not like it has to be deadset on "Mario Kart (whatever number Nintendo thinks is correct)".
Alternatively, do both! Everyone wins!
I hope its subtitle is unique like Double Dash or Super Circuit.
Same here. And honestly, I can see Mario and Luigi being frequent choices of mine too. Their new looks are incredibly appealing to me, they seem so jolly.I may make fun of roster decisions always, but as long as the Wario brothers are still playable I'll know who I'll gravitate to.
Ive always wanted Fawful and Peasley
I assume that'd require them doing anything substantial with Daisy, which doesn't seem too likely.
I'd say Fawful would be cool. I really should try a Mario and Luigi RPG with him in it.
Didn't they make her playable in Wonder?
Uh, no. No, quantity isn't quality. Just because the game will have 24 racers, it's no justification to now do a turn around to the babies, metals, pink golds, what have you just for the sake of oversaturating the roster. How about Nintendo uses that time to bring some new racers instead of bringing back all these alternate versions. If they are aiming for more female playable characters... I mean, the Sprixie Princesses are right there, Dixie Kong is right there, Mona and Ashley are right there, there's no need for the Peachettes of the world. And if they want to give a big roster like again, how about bringing Ninji and Spike out of their Mario Party limbo, or promote Pianta from spectator to racer, or give the rest of the tour characters their port. There's no need to crave for plenty of options for the sake of quantity and turn to spin-off filler choices like these.
Not happening (thank god). The clash of art styles would be terrible. And let's be real, the negotiations wouldn't even be worth it for a character who's only cared about by hardcore gamers at the end of the day.
Being one of twelve playable characters in a game where character choice doesn't matter & lore literally doesn't exist isn't quite substantial.
Yes there is! Peach and Toadette are infinitely more popular than most of y'all's favorite Paper/Mario & Luigi/Whatever RPG party members, so a fusion of the two characters is free real estate really.
I'd figure you would say something like that, though I am not buying the not happening part, well, not from you at least. I understand the negotiations part and why it would never happen, but I can still dream, can't I? I also don't think art style would be much of a problem, honestly.
It most certainly is and I look forward to his take. Hope he channels some Double Dash energy with his line.
Hey I hear ya and I wouldn’t say I totally disagree, but we already saw a trailer that showed a little over 20 characters and 5 of them were babies. I saw what they did with MK8 and Tour. There’s gonna be some cheap characters on the roster - I just hope there’s enough characters in general including totally unique characters like Ninji and Dixie Kong to justify all the “filler.”
I think various elements of the park were somewhat locked in pretty early and it may have been presumed to play it safe now and then do some gradual changes down the line. A few updated DK costumes when the next mainline game is out could probably be done without too much fuss if planned right.
We need more diverse voice lines in general. Let these people speak. I can't remember the last time Daisy or Waluigi spoke a real sentence.
No need. He's already a lightweight.
Now this I can agree on. Hoping that the voicelines for almost every character are fresh. Diddy and Funky could benefit the most, the Barrel Blast voice clips are almost a decade old at this point.
Not an avid supporter of Geno and Mallow myself but I don't think they would clash with the art style, especially since this game is giving pretty much everyone design tweaks in order to fit into one universal style. I'm confident that the design team could make even Smithy fit.
I would say that given how 3Dish the original Super Mario RPG was, and by extension, its remake, characters from that game would be able to fit into a Mario Kart game, which, nowadays is quite 3D itself. Maybe not without some tweaks as you said, but I don't think the art styles are going to clash so hard here.
I see the vision. My first order of business will be to add Whittles
What? If anything SMRPG has by far the closest art style to the "normal" Mario art style of the RPGs, and this MK even has the characters seemingly a little stubbier like the remake. You're not de-papering some character here, Geno and Mallow could easily make the jump to something like this, design-wise.
Sadly nothing from Galaxy 2 gets to come back.
The new Mario Kart's art style is actually really close to Super Mario RPG's artstyle, so if anything they'd look more at home in this game specifically.
Considering that 2 of those are Toad, 4 of those are Yoshi, and the series in general doesn't tend to have a huge roster, I'd say it's pretty significant that they're all playable at all. The characters not having mechanical differences (barring Yoshi and Nabbit who are meant to be the game's "easy mode") is fairly standard, as the only two games that made everyone different are Super Mario Bros. 2, and Super Mario 3D World. Even New Super Luigi U made everyone like Luigi instead of giving the Toads any unique traits.
I get the premise, but not the conclusion. To be honest, I think Bowsette, and the fannon implications of the Super Crown were way more popular than Peachette ever was. Peachette is just Peach in a cute Toadette inspired dress, and as far as stuff like that goes, we've got a lot more interesting Peach designs before and since. As far as recognizably goes, my thoughts immediately go to that clip of RelaxAlax asking random people who she was:
Why is that a problem, but Donkey Kong looking completely different after looking consistent for 30 years is not? Would Daisy looking like a different white woman be less weird?
