Top 5 - 10 - 20 Mario Disappointments.

I do wonder what the next game will be like and will it be on the switch? 3ds? Some unknown 3ds successor?
 
Fresh Bowser said:
I understand why they did it from the perspective of the type of game they were making. But I'm still disappointed that it was more of a "meeting yourself" game than a "two similar but also different universes colliding" game. There weren't any paper characters who didn't have real counterparts for example, and even some paper characters who DID have real counterparts still didn't appear (like Toadette). There was also the complete absence of Toadsworth on both sides despite him being in every Mario & Luigi up to that point and having a paper counterpart in TTYD.
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Have you noticed that Paper Mario: Color Splash is missing those two characters as well? Since pretty much all paper characters' sprites of Paper Jam came from the "new" Paper Mario team, I wonder if the lack of these characters is due to said team not having made yet sprites of modern paper versions of these characters, while the paper Koopalings were probably not ready yet and including them would have spoiled one of the surprises of Color Splash (hence mentioned, not included).
 
But Toads didn't really get a redesign, more like they removed most of the unique looking ones. I don't understand why Paper Toadsworth/Toadette would look any different after Sticker Star. Heck, every returning character in Sticker Star that wasn't redesigned had their sprites reused from TTYD (or SPM in Peach's case)
 
My guess is they either forgot about him, aren't allowed to use him anymore, or just couldn't think of anything noteworthy to do with him.

I mean his biggest role in the series was partners in time and he's barely done anything since.
 
i probably think it's more likely to forget or not know what to do with him
 
Easy. There are many things they could have used Toadsworth for but only used a generic Toad. A prime example is the opening to Color Splash. Why on earth is it just a regular Toad accompanying Peach to Mario's house?

And I don't see how he's easy to forget, being one of the most interesting Toad characters and debuted in the same game as Bowser Jr. and Petey Piranha, both of which still appear nowadays.
 
You'd be surprised what some creators remember and forget.

It's not a Mario example but in the Dragon Ball series there was this side character named Launch who appeared fairly regularly throughout the series. She was never significant (like toadsworth) but she was often there with other characters.

Come the follow-up series Dragon Ball Z she's nowhere to be found, never mentioned, it was as if she never existed.

What happened to her you might be asking? Well it's simple. The creator simply forgot about her entirely. He forgot about a character HE created.
 
Hell I forget about some of the characters I created myself so it's hardly surprising :p

anyway, Intelligent Systems did forget the Mario series had a huge cast of characters outside of Toads so I'm not surprised Toadsworth got the shaft.
 
Which isn't all that surprising if what I heard about changes to who works there these days.

Plus unlike us most developers haven't religiously played almost every game in the franchise dozens upon dozens of times.