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  1. PaperSplash

    Unpopular opinions about video games in general.

    These are all fair points. I still stand by what I said but your post has given me some food for thought on the matter.
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    Unpopular opinions about video games in general.

    Limited extra lives in video games are not outdated and can still serve a purpose. I'm fine with modern games choosing to do away with them if it fits their vision or giving the option to have infinite lives for accessibility, but I don't like how the popular opinion is shifting towards them...
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    Is there a reason levels in mainline Mario games are called "courses"?

    Interesting stuff; thanks for sharing! I know the loanword "athletic" is often used in Japanese to refer to outdoor obstacle courses, so with that in mind it's much easier to understand where they got "course" from.
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    Is there a reason levels in mainline Mario games are called "courses"?

    That's actually a pretty good hunch. I could see Nintendo staff saying something like that in an interview if they were ever asked why (assuming they haven't been already). As I stated in the topic title, it seems to be most strictly enforced in the mainline games (keep in mind that Nintendo...
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    Is there a reason levels in mainline Mario games are called "courses"?

    It's not a translation quirk or anything; they're called "courses" in Japanese as well (コース, which is a loan word from English). But clearly even Nintendo's localization teams find this a weird word choice; in the English version of Super Mario Maker 2 there's a bunch of jokes about Nina getting...
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    Should Rosalina's name be universally applied?

    If I could go back in time and be the one calling the shots at Nintendo, then I would have kept Rosetta worldwide. I'm not a fan of name changes between languages, except if the original name was meant to be an obvious pun or reference in the original language and the intent would be completely...
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    Would CERO give SM64DS a C on further re-releases?

    Not sure what "laws" you're referring to here. Many countries, including Japan, regulate simulated gambling completely separately from its real-life counterpart.
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    post any random Mario thought on your mind

    It's especially weird because he says "Super Mario Galaxy" in a different way than in the first game, and I believe he has a few new voice clips in the game itself, so it's not like they didn't have an opportunity to record the "2" part.
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    How do you pronounce the word "Bob-omb"?

    I think it's supposed to be BOB-omb (as a play on the name Bob and the word bomb), but sometimes I get lazy and say buh-BOMB.
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    Would CERO give SM64DS a C on further re-releases?

    CERO doesn't seem to have much of an issue with mild simulated gambling in otherwise kid-friendly games; it's mainly PEGI (Europe) and GRAC (South Korea) that do.
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    Why does MarioWiki cover Yoshi, DK and Wario games?

    I consider them all to be "Mario characters" and "Mario games" for the reasons others have stated in this thread, but also I think the practical reason is because separate wikis would mean separate userbases which leads to less in-depth coverage overall. Also, as another user alluded to, Yoshi...
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    post any random Mario thought on your mind

    What would the "Think Before You Shake" mission in Galaxy 2 be renamed to if the game ever got a port where motion controls were made optional? Think Before You Spin? Think Before You Step? Think Before You... Press?
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    post any random Mario thought on your mind

    I always wondered why the health gauge in Super Mario 64 was labeled "Power", since I always think of that as an offensive stat, like in the RPGs. Well, one time I was playing the game with the language set to Japanese (thanks, 3D All-Stars!) and I read the sign in Snowman's Land about the...
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    Your favorite one off concepts

    Almost everything from Super Mario Bros. 2.
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    Charles Martinet might not have actually voiced Toadsworth in Super Mario Sunshine (among other characters)

    Just so you know, on that site, the only officially confirmed voice credits are the ones that have a green check mark next to them (and you can click on them to view the source, which is either usually the credits or the voice actor themselves). Unfortunately, however, the official credits for...
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    Charles Martinet might not have actually voiced Toadsworth in Super Mario Sunshine (among other characters)

    I can't tell what you're trying to say here. What do you think isn't true?
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    Charles Martinet might not have actually voiced Toadsworth in Super Mario Sunshine (among other characters)

    So I was browsing the Behind the Voice Actors forums the other day, and I stumbled across an interesting thread. Someone was claiming that Charles Martinet was in fact not the voice of Toadsworth and several other Super Mario Sunshine characters attributed to him, but that Scott Burns was. But...
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    What's the difference between a topic and a thread?

    A few sites (like GameFAQs for example) use the terms interchangeably, so I understand some of the confusion.
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    What inspired YOUR username?

    Paper Mario: Color Splash. Though it's not exactly subtle as is...
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    Preferred Names & Pronouns

    PaperSplash, or just Paper. He and they are both fine.
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