Recent content by Qayin

About Super Paper Mario. I say that big problems with the plot/characterization are: 1. Count Bleck and Co. aren't sympathetic enough to make their redemption work. We're shown that they're fine with wiping out worlds with no remorse shown on-screen. When Bleck does turn, it's less that he...

The Shroobs were the best of the RPG villains since: A. They were plenty menacing but still fit well as Mario villains unlike say, Count Bleck and Co. (who come off as rejects from a JRPG series). B. They weren't functionally identical to Bowser. C. They didn't get a forced redemption arc...

tbh, he won't get one since Nintendo still sees him as just Wario's sidekick but at the same time doesn't want to use him in Wario's own games.

I dig their little lore of them being traitors.

I'm sure the retcon for the Koopalings roots, at lest in part, in how them and Bowser Jr. being Bowser's biologcial children just wouldn't be family-friendly enough according to their owners. When you take Bowser having 8 really different looking children combined with him obviously having a...

Eh, Toadsworth's in the same position as Kammy Koopa in that he's more or less an attempt to give Peach a non-interchangeable looking sidekick (just as how Kammy was an attempt to give Bowser a less generic looking magikoopa helper) but was supplanted by the more generic but more iconic...

I know that Kamek is the name for magikoopas as an enemy species in Japan, yet seeing how the magikoopa in BJJ is obviously meant to be the magikoopa who's Bowser's right-hand and former babysitter makes me wonder if he might have gotten something of a Doctor Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik treatment...

I don't find his redemption convincing. As in him sincerely repenting rather than figuring out that Timpani isn't dead and so he stops trying to kill the universe.

I honestly don't see the appeal of the new villains in the RPGs besides the Shroobs and Dimentio. In actual practice they're either just Bowser in another name or Count Bleck's posse besides Dimentio with their forced redemption.

Some talks on GameFAQs inspired this thread. It's been pointed out that Smash Bros. might not do the best job portraying its characters. If not in overall personality, then in moveset. Examples: Mario: Portrayed as way too stern, too serious. Just look at how he walks in Piranha Plant's...

Does Kamek have a bio in that Mario encyclopedia or no?

Bowser in Superstar Saga had what SMRPG did to him. Which was hitting you over the head with how the new villain is totally stronger and darker than Bowser.

I'm sure the Koopa Kids were a stand-in for the Koopalings back when Nintendo was avoiding using them.

That reminds me of how refreshing it is to see the Mario Bros. not have anybody speak for them in SS.

I'm sure that can be pinned on Super Mario Sunshine's voice acting. Considering Peach is apparently supposed to be surprised Bowser has children (which to me shows the Koopaling retcon either already happened or had its seeds planted), I figure the idea was Peach is in disbelief at Bowser Jr.'s...