Do you support same selectable characters?

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Mario games are known for having a huge cast of playable characters, and Super Mario Kart is the first one where you not only select multiple characters, but also have another player to select their character too. Prior to that, multiplayer games were restricted to Mario and Luigi, and in Super Mario Bros. 2's case, only one player is allowed to play a level.

As you can guess from this topic's title, it's about selecting the same character.

Mario games do not tend to support this feature, as they prefer to keep every character distinct. In fact, it's only through online gaming that there is finally the ability to use the same character, starting from Mario Kart DS. Even then, it's still rare to select the same character, especially in a local setting. Correct me on this, but I think Mario Golf (N64) might have this option too since that game had selectable colour palettes. Otherwise, I believe Mario Kart 8 is the first game to properly allow multiple people to select the same character (Mario Kart Wii relies on a glitch to do so). If any Mario game supports selecting the same character, do provide any example you can think of!

One series that I would love to see the support of selecting the same character is Mario Party. The only instance where Mario Party allows the same character to be selected is in amiibo Party, where to my knowledge, is only possible for the CPUs, and because of the supported amiibo at that time, a few characters couldn't get this feature (Daisy, Waluigi, Toadette and Spike). Here's one video to show what I mean (2 videos included!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZknyeX4sjcc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpbme140PUY

I wish Nintendo allowed the option to select the same character in every Mario series. How about you?

Thank you for reading.
 
I don't really mind. It doesn't really fit continunity, but Mario is a series full of princesses, magic turtles, italian plumbers, mushroom men, and all sorts of wacky stuff, so I guess it fits.
 
Same character selection could cause a lot of confusion, but if you could choose palette swaps like in Smash, then that sounds like a great idea. It was a pretty stupid design choice in Mario Sports Mix to include palette swaps, but prohibit same-character selection.
 
I'm not hugely keen on identical characters being able to be selected by two different people, but I'm fine with palette swaps being able to be selected at the same time, as long as they don't take up extra character slots *ahem*MetalMarioGoldMarioPinkGoldPeach*ahem*. Mario Kart 8 is the only example of this I can think of though, excluding in online games.
 
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yes this needs to return in a future game.

also, baby mario should turn into baby luigi's colors while baby luigi should turn to baby mario's colors for the lulz
 
Depends on the series. I'm fine with it for Mario Kart but it'd just look stupid in Mario Party.
 
I'd like to see it just so I can use pallet swaps of characters like in Smash.
 
Smash Bros. has been doing this, and also, I support multiple people selecting one character. Mario has never known to be coherent so why not have multiple Marios. It also deals with the headache me and my irl friend that both our favorite Mario character is Mario.

Parakoopa144 said:
I don't really mind. It doesn't really fit continunity, but Mario is a series full of princesses, magic turtles, italian plumbers, mushroom men, and all sorts of wacky stuff, so I guess it fits.
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Continuity doesn't really exist, and if it does, it's barely anything. Even series that used to have a shred of continuity had continuity thrown out, ahem, Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi.

BBQ Turtle said:
I'm not hugely keen on identical characters being able to be selected by two different people, but I'm fine with palette swaps being able to be selected at the same time, as long as they don't take up extra character slots *ahem*MetalMarioGoldMarioPinkGoldPeach*ahem*. Mario Kart 8 is the only example of this I can think of though, excluding in online games.
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The only bad thing about character slots is that they take up pixel UI space on the roster and occupy a negligible amount on the disk space (like palette swaps). Any other argument supporting that "they take up slots" is not valid.

Czario said:
Depends on the series. I'm fine with it for Mario Kart but it'd just look stupid in Mario Party.
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Mario Party is stupid to begin with, Gander boy.
 
Czario said:
Depends on the series. I'm fine with it for Mario Kart but it'd just look stupid in Mario Party.
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Mario Party is like really, really, really stupid to begin with and I think clone characters actually fit the stupid mood it has.

like imagine a match of four Warios killing each other, i think it would make mario party even more hilarious
 
Yeah, I really wish it were possible for more than one player to be the same character in Mario Party. I always struggle at choosing my CPU opponents in Mario Party, because there aren't enough characters that I hate. I wish I could make all of the CPUs be Waluigi, because he's the only character I truly hate and I don't feel bad for him when he loses.