Should Mario become photorealistic or go the photorealistic route?

Should he?

  • Yes, it's about time Mario should move on from the cartoony style and have realism to keep up with m

    Votes: 3 6.5%

  • No, the cartoony style is fine as is.

    Votes: 41 89.1%

  • I don't care if it's cartoony or realistic.

    Votes: 2 4.3%
  • Total voters
    46
Luigi already ruined the game. me and xandalf know each other so don't sweat it

I agree, but I think they should just not do it unless Nintendo really wants to make their fans hate them (although they do want their fans to hate them when it comes to Youtube management).
 
I definitely agree. Photorealistic Mario belongs to the fans. They may butcher him as much as they want.
 
Fans have butchered the Mario series a lot of times. So I have a lot of faith in them to butcher him as much as they want.
 
Magikrazy said:
Huh, never knew Shenmue was a QTE game.

Always assumed it was action adventure.
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shenmue is everything

it's weird

E: okay im not leaving myself open to be made fun of by zae.
 
Now this makes me wonder how does a game tries succesfully to remain a 2D platformer and to be photorealistic at the same time. I'm sure this have been tried, but it seems to me that zooming kind of forces you to look at things closely or the illusion is easily broken.
 
Bentley said:
Now this makes me wonder how does a game tries succesfully to remain a 2D platformer and to be photorealistic at the same time. I'm sure this have been tried, but it seems to me that zooming kind of forces you to look at things closely or the illusion is easily broken.
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You can do that. Photorealism is just graphics anyway.
 
Now this how a photorealistic Mario game would be like.

 
I thought it was interesting that Wario is the first to go to the "photorealistic" route, and I am using the term lightly, because it's more like a person in a Wario costume and not his body type. If you see Wario Land 4's CD section (play one of the CDs if you have them), you can see what I am talking about.

Anyway, count me in as one of those who would prefer Mario to stay cartoony. The HD Mario artwork did a great job at adding detail to Mario while still maintaining the characteristic Mario is known for. A photorealistic Mario would have been too uncanny.

Thanks for reading.
 
The photorealistic route is a deliberate style choice that fits with Wario because it's considered strange and weird (like Weird Mario....) so I wouldn't mind seeing photo-realistic Wario in WarioWare, just as long as that style isn't WarioWare's overall theme and just some visual gag.

Although I think realism being used as a joke can apply in Mario stuff in general. Like below. I don't even know the context, and I find the drawings amusing. The latter one is from Super Mario Adventures.

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