How do you think they should shake up the level themes?

BMB said:
Marshal Dan Troop said:
BMB said:
My world wish:

Space/Gravity
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Space Zone
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It has only been used once in a game not very well known as the others. Besides, I can still use it because it isn't the same old grass, lava, ice, etc. stuff.
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The space area in Super Paper Mario...
Also Super Mario Land 2 sold 11 million copies but your right 11 million that's pretty damn obscure when you compare it to Super Mario Galaxies 10.68 million
Also Macro Zone
 
Marshal Dan Troop said:
Or they have identical cities in the mushroom world and some of the cities such as Mushroom City are located in the Mushroom Kingdom.
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Despite that they can directly use Diamond City (unless the staff want to find another exotic city), the question is whether there is really such a place under the rule of Peach, since in the Earth usually capital should be the most bustling place.

And it's still that how to do with the citizens if NSMB take places their, or it can only be an RPG or 3D game.
 
I would like to see a food/candy world. It would be like Sweet Mystery Galaxy from SMG2 and Sweet Sweet Galaxy from SMG

Futuristic Base world, lasers, other nice things

Maybe an autumn world like it is a forest but takes place in the atumn season. It has big polices of leaves. Has that snow effect but instead leaves are falling. Maybe it can take place around Halloween with some pumpkins and takes place at night.
 
The level themes are the least of my problems. I'm more disturbed with the fact that the forts and castles have been way too short lately; almost every one of them are one area only levels. Heck, nearly every fort is completely vertical now.
 
MnSG said:
The level themes are the least of my problems. I'm more disturbed with the fact that the forts and castles have been way too short lately; almost every one of them are one area only levels. Heck, nearly every fort is completely vertical now.
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They should have a super tough boss fight to compromise for it, but we get easy as hell Koopalings instead.
 
While I wouldn't mind less bread and butter level themes, I think that the NSMB series art direction is really at fault here. It's not just that it constantly uses the same Ice/Desert/Grass/Lava themes, it's that the Ice/Desert/Grass/Lava worlds in all of the games look exactly the same.

Like, nearly of the 2D platformers use the grassland archetype, but because each games have their own art style and stylistic quirks, it doesn't feel too tired.

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Now compare with the NSMB series' desert levels

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yeah
 
Like I stated previously, a space/futuristic world (that one level with stars in NSMBU is a good start, I guess) and a factory world. Those are my two favorite world themes; Kirby's Epic Yarn and Return to Dream Land, respectfully, did a great job on both.
 
Fassad said:
Like I stated previously, a space/futuristic world (that one level with stars in NSMBU is a good start, I guess) and a factory world. Those are my two favorite world themes; Kirby's Epic Yarn and Return to Dream Land, respectfully, did a great job on both.
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This. Kirby's Epic Yarn did a fantastic job with Future World (or whatever it was called). I absolutely loved Tube Town.