Recent content by John Bros.

Ever since Bowser’s Fury came out — and even more so since both Mario Galaxy games were remastered for the Switch — I’ve often been thinking about a potential Super Mario Galaxy 3 in an open-world format. I could totally see it being released around the end of 2026, right after the new movie...

Super Mario Summit — 3D Mario Game Concept Hi everyone, I'd like to share a personal idea I had: a new 3D Mario game based on the theme of mountains. With the help of an AI, I was able to refine this idea and turn it into a game design pitch. The concept itself is mine, but the structure and...

I feel like Nintendo is now using the Paper Mario series as a place to experiment new concepts before eventually integrate them into a mainline Mario game. The way the Overworld works in Worlds 3 and 4 of the Origami King is quite similar to what I am describing indeed. Regarding the point of...

I was thinking about Zelda Ocarina of Time and Final Fantasy 7 recently, and the thought came to my mind: what if 3D Super Mario games had a full JRPG-style overworld ? By JRPG overworld, I mean an overworld that feels very large, like a small planet, with continents and oceans on it, through...

I really love the idea of a giant city where you can drive karts to locations too, but if I had to choose one Overworld theme for a future Open World Mario title, that would be the sky. I guess it would be similar to an Open World Mario Galaxy (something I would love to play too) but this time...

I absolutely agree. I also think this is an appetizer for the next mainline Mario game, which will build on the general ideas introduced here. It makes sense to me because Bowser's Fury feels like a natural evolution of Odyssey. They improved some aspects of the gameplay, like replacing the...

Thank you for your information, I didn't know about Starshine Beach Galaxy and indeed, it looks absolutely like a classic Sandbox, in terms of size and gameplay. I replaced Throwback Galaxy by that one on my document. The Galaxy games are so singular in their ability to switch from Sandbox to...

With the recent release of Bowser’s Fury and seeing all the changes it brought to the 3D Mario formula in terms of World Design, I thought it would be the proper time to analyze the scale of all 3D Super Mario games, from Super Mario 64 to Bowser’s Fury. I wanted to create a document in which we...

Oh yes, I would love to see Wario as a main antagonist again, or at least as an important boss in one of the Kingdoms / Worlds. I think that's still possible. I remember reading in another board a very interesting idea to reintroduce Wario : make a Las Vegas style kingdom and have Wario be the...

Yes, a truly open-world Super Mario game is yet to come. I don't know if I would prefer a dozen of mini open-worlds or just one huge World with all the different mini-worlds stuck together inside. Of course, they could do a single open-world about the Mushroom Kingdom and the surrounding regions...

I was replaying Odyssey the last few days - especially the Luncheon Kingdom which is one of my favorites - and I got really interested in the way they use checkpoint flagpoles in that game. They are spread all around the Kingdom and once you reach them and put the Mario flag on it, you can...

The last 3D main entries in the Super Mario series were Super Mario 3D World and Super Mario Odyssey. Two successful games which are also the two most different 3D Super Mario games, 3DW being the most linear and Odyssey being the most open 3D game. It seems that the main flaw in both games is...