Do you support the clones?

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Dorayaki

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As we know, Metal Mario has appeared in several game titles, but for unknown reason, MM does not appear in every single spinoff game despite of being an easy creation. Meanwhile, there are of course fans who dislike the clones and don't mind them to dissapear at all.

In terms of origins, I'm kinda dissapointed with Gooigi or Silver Luigi not getting the favor in sport games as Metal Mario's partner. Meanwhile, Pink Gold Peach is kinda arguable, I know she couldn't reprise Metal Mario's role in earlier mainline because that was still Peach's damsel-in-distress era, however, now Peach has got major player roles in Showtime and Sparks of Hope, there is really no excuse for Nintendo to not give PGP a major debut in those games.

Should the clones be further utilized? Or should they be totally removed for the lack of demand?
 
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Clones are cost efficient characters that are basically the result of leftovers, plus Metal Mario and Pink Gold Peach have the benefit of being medium-sized heavy characters (with Pink Gold Peach in particular being made for the female audience). They should not be receiving as much hate as they do and advocating their removal doesn't necessarily mean they'll add Waluigi in Mario Kart 7.
 
I'm okay with clones as long as they can serve an interesting game play purpose. As said above, the metal characters allow for the creation of heavyweight medium characters, and Gooigi had unique mechanics based on his ability to move through certain walls and obstacles because he's part liquid.

When clones are merely costume swaps I'd prefer that they be sorted under costumes rather than take up a character slot for organization purposes, so the participants of an average race are more varied.
 
I feel clones are just to take up spots in the roster. To have totally new characters but still have the "clones", they could just be variants of existing characters, like Metal Mario for Mario and Cat Peach for Peach. That way everyone's satisfied!
 
I love Metal Mario, to me he's his own character and deserves a unique slot on rosters. If they do costumes for Mario Kart 9, I'm hoping they still make Metal Mario separate to regular Mario. It'd be weird not to at this point.

Pink Gold Peach and Gooigi are harder for me to figure out, I can totally see Gooigi getting his own unique slot, maaaybe Pink Gold Peach too but these two are less likely to get unique slots.
 
I really like the Galaxy Clone Marios from Mario Galaxy. They're really challenging to race. I think they might be in the second game too; I'm currently watching a longplay of it. I also like how you are motivated to stay ahead of them because I think if you touch them, you die.
 
We saw that thread title and thought we lived in a far stranger/cooler and more awesome reality than we did a few moments ago. We don't mind roster clones that much so long as there are already fairly substantial inclusions in the roster.

Peachette in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe + Booster Course Pack stings a lot less than Pink Gold Peach being in something like Mario Sports Superstars; by the time Peachette got in, we had gotten enough DLC for the various forms of MK8 for characters like Link, Isabelle, Birdo, Kamek, and Funky Kong to all be in the game, so the idea that one of those DLC slots was "wasted" on Peachette is kinda whatever since the MK8 roster post-DLC, Deluxe, and BPC is probably the most rock-solid roster in the series. Meanwhile, Mario Sports Superstars has 18 characters and not only did they blew two of 'em on metals, they made sure those were the onlyunlockables for some reason. Yippee.
 
I'm hopefully past the point of being super annoyed with them but i apparently do still have a lot to say.

It's partly about presentation, isn't it. If they're sitting on the main character roster, it's gonna feel like missed potential and a disappointment to unlock. If you select a character and get a submenu of alts, it's a pleasant bonus that doesn't bother anyone, even when those alts are even lower-effort than standalone clones.

I'll also belabor the point that I think clones should, like, come from somewhere that feels logical. I don't think so many people would have been mad about Pink Gold Peach if she had actually been in something like NSMB2 first, instead of appearing out of the ether in a racing game of all things. Why does Mario Kart keep inventing characters that have nothing to do with, like, its premise? How much do i want a character with no apparen