Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition announced for 3DS

Wittgenstein said:
I'll be honest, this looks nothing like the Mario RPGs I'm used to. Of course. The previous ones were action-adventure RPGs. This is a puzzle RPG.
Where are all the original characters? Don't think of this as a Mario RPG more so than a twist on the usual Mario formula. I don't think we're going to see many original characters; this game is about bringing characters from the franchise's history together.I haven't yet seen a single reference to a Mario & Luigi or Paper Mario game either. Just give it some time. We will never know what surprises are in the game until it comes out.
I may get it, but I'm not playing it like I play the RPGs. I'll probably classify it with the miscellaneous spinoffs. Good thoughts! Nothing to criticize at all.
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Wittgenstein said:
I'll be honest, this looks nothing like the Mario RPGs I'm used to.
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Its almost as if its a large genre with many different ways it can executed.
 
Nah, not gonna dwell on it.


I can look forward to my super goomba squadron of death.
 
Wittgenstein said:
I'll be honest, this looks nothing like the Mario RPGs I'm used to. Where are all the original characters? I haven't yet seen a single reference to a Mario & Luigi or Paper Mario game either. I may get it, but I'm not playing it like I play the RPGs. I'll probably classify it with the miscellaneous spinoffs.
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It doesn't need tacky original characters to be classified as an RPG, and it doesn't need to reference the other RPGs (see my big phat paragraph on why, you...)
 
I mean heaven forbid it actually resemble the thing its based off.
 
Thats not what I was referring to. I meant why is it such a big deal if it resembles NSMB and its basic level structure? When did a Mario spin off looking very similar to the thing its being spun off from suddenly become a negative trait?
 
Hell NSMB isn't even some kind of weird anomaly. A lot of its base character designs were specifically taken from previous games in the franchise. A primary example is NSMBDS which took a lot of its assets and character models from SM64DS. I am constantly baffled when people look at games and are like ''they are just milking the NSMB designs'' when most modern Mario character designs didn't even debut in NSMB to begin with!


I realize thats off topic but holy fuck is it ever something that bothers me.
 
I suppose it's because I've always liked the weird/different designs better. One of my favorite art styles is the one in Super Paper Mario. I also like the style of the Beanbean Kingdom in Superstar Saga. I just don't like how the design they're using as the "main" one happens to be kind of boring to me. Hell, I liked the world design in Super Mario 64 more than the one in the NSMB series. Call it nostalgia all you want, but I feel like Mario games are getting more and more unoriginal.