If you had the choice to make the next Mario game, what would it be?

Redshift said:
I have no idea why they're worded as "X-Nauts" when their pronunciation is "Cross Naut". I'll continue calling them "Ex Naut" because that's how they're spelled like.
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When was that confirmed? I've never heard anyone pronounce their name as "Cross Naut".
 
Chris Yukine said:
When was that confirmed? I've never heard anyone pronounce their name as "Cross Naut".
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X-Nauts (organization)

The X-Nauts is an evil organization led by Grodus that serves as the main antagonists in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and its Nintendo Switch remake. The majority of the operatives are also called X-Nauts, though there are other classes of...
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While one would expect the organization's name to be pronounced "ecks-naughts", there is a reasonable amount of evidence that "cross-naughts" is more correct. In addition to the French and German translations both containing a derivative of the word "cross", the X-Yux is confirmed via Tattle as being pronounced "cross-yux". The name "cross-naughts" would also reference the game Naughts and Crosses (i.e. tic-tac-toe).
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As well as the X-Yux's tattle.

That's an X-Yux. I hear this is read as "Cross"-Yux, not as "Ex"-Yux. Anyway, this is a new Yux designed to protect extra-important areas... They were designed to be unbeatable. They're not. Max HP is 10, Attack is 3, and Defense is 1. It can produce two Mini-X-Yuxes at once. AND, it has an excellent success rate of immobilizing opponents. We gotta do something about that if we're gonna win.
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Huh, that's interesting.

Too bad their leader has the lamest and most ridiculous Mario design ever (for a supposedly "original" villain).
 
Not to mention, he was bland as hell. I keep forgetting he's in the game, his presence is so muted that he may as well not even be there and that the Shadow Queen and Lord Crump would be the main antagonists.
 
He also instantly gets rekt by shadow Queen. Idk about you but that just degrades his image even more. Fucker doesn't even have any dignity left to himself it's pitiful really.

But I wouldn't say Shadow Queen is the main villain either. You only hear about her at the very end of the game and now "woah woah hol' up I gotta fight ya now?" And I've seen other villains requiring a sacrifice to be revived. Tbh the one person I'd really consider a main villain for this game is Crump, and well, I will say his dialogue is better written than the other two. Doesn't mean if you're still a generic enemy lieutenant that you can't have good lines. But even then, would you consider him the main villain of the entire game? Even Bowser, who is supposed to be a comic relief villain for this game appears more times than he does, that being after literally every chapter!
 
Shadow Queen is a nice twist villain and she has a pretty awesome design, that's why she's more memorable than Sir Grodus.
 
Sure. I can get behind that. I think BoneChill's design is cool too and his presence is intimidating until you deploy Luigi. FE: Sacred Stones's Final boss is also someone who looks terrifying but once you realize how easy it actually is to take him down, you start making him a laughingstock.

And for that, I'll give Shadow Queen some credit. She manages to instill fear AND retain it. She is actually tough to fight, and she can very easily screw you over. She is one of the best boss fights in the series I've seen, and she is pretty fun to fight.
 
Rinka Hayami said:
And for that, I'll give Shadow Queen some credit. She manages to instill fear AND retain it. She is actually tough to fight, and she can very easily screw you over. She is one of the best boss fights in the series I've seen, and she is pretty fun to fight.
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You can use Mega Rushes to win really easily and consistently tho

Again story =/= gameplay and I usually wouldn't give a character extra credit because of how the battle system works. The battle system can be good, entertaining, fun, and challenging, and that's one thing, and the bosses can be cool, evil, and intimidating, and that's another thing. I've posted my VG char fav list several times on this site, and for that list I didn't take anything to do with gameplay - how the character controls, how useful they are for platforming or combat, how hard a boss fight is - how regularly they are playable, into account, just their personality, emotions, design, dialogue, and role in the plot. Music probably doesn't count either tbh.

Grodus isn't my favourite villain by any stretch, but I still appreciate his existence.

And the X-Nauts at least are from the moon, and are a strange species unlike anything in the Mushroom Kingdom, so the Shroobs could come to the moon or the X-Nauts could go deeper into space and team up and that could work somehow. I haven't played PIT myself but I know that the Shroobs were an evil alien society so that would be cool imo
 
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Having a base on the moon doesn't mean they are from the moon.

Anyway I think the villains are probably the weakest part about TTYD. None of them are all that entertaining apart from Lord Crump.

Still I'd take them over what we got the following game.