There's something so unique about how they decided to make Mario's face stick to a specific angle towards the screen at all times; he literally looks like Super Mario 3 box art come to life.
I love the animation of him running into a horizontal warp pipe. The way he reaches back out to grab his hat, and the little look-around before he comes out the other end, it's so cartoonish, and such a vast upgrade over the tradition of just having him slowly slide through the opening. It adds just a little more personality to him.
You also see that with the slowed down part where he's talking about the background gameplay. The slowed animation highlights how after popping out of the pipe Peach has to cartoonishly exert physical effort to get anything else but her head out of the pipe and continue playing.
# 0001 To me it seems like this kind of style feels a bit like from the Rayman Origins/Legends games when the characters do these little "quirks" whenever they do certain things. Makes me "wonder" if they took inspiration from them since Nintendo and Ubi are affiliated with each other. And as for Peach, I'm very much confident that her coming out the pipe like that was a callback from Doki Doki Mario 2. Just like how she would sorta struggle to pull turnips and stuff off the ground.
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed the chaos edition of Ocarina as much as I did. I definitely share the excitement for this game. It's cool looking, there's tons of new ideas and more importantly for me, it's unpredictable. Happy to be surprised by a 2D Mario again.
This is going to sell so well. The switch has a huge user base, in a world post Mario movie plus this wonderful gimmick and style. This will sell like crazy crazy
@@staringcorgi6475 even in an irrelevant console the game sells, "new" super mario bros u sold 5.8 million copies on the wii u, imagine the sale numbers for wonder
I love the animation when peach exits the pipe around 11:40, it’s such a small detail that at regular speed is barely noticeable but still adds to the feel of the game
THIS right there, THIS IS WHAT THE NEW FORMULA NEEDED. this is why it looked so stale and samey every single time, they finally fixed the issue of the recent 2d mario games and i am SO HAPPY ABOUT IT.
This is the most unique, colorful, and fun looking 2D Mario game in quite a while, and I can't wait to play. And just imagine the memes of Elephant Mario.
Daisy's inclusion makes me wonder if maybe this is her kingdom, y'know? Like, all the worlds are weird and strange and new because this is her hanging out with her friends on her own turf
I love how Mario straight up BECOMES an elephant. Like, normally it's Mario wearing a costume based on an animal, like Tanooki Mario isn't a real Tanuki but this game is going for weird, so he's just a legit elephant Mario and I love that.
Not only that, but it means every other playable character can become an elephant too. The idea has already reached... cultured minds as to how that could look.
Mario looks a lot happier than usual. It's not just that he's happier either, it's that it's a little bit infectious on top of all the other changes and new enemies and things.
Great so he's gonna seem even more like he's on drugs. At least luigi seems like a person, Mario is just some mindless happy... THING (again doesn't seem like a person) made only for children.
I mean, a typical Nintendo move would have been to give New Super Mario Bros. U a few new powers and gimmicks along with a different story and call it good... This is on a whole other level! I have never seen enemies interact with the environment this much before in ANY Mario game! At most there were enemies coming out of popes or bumping into walls... and that was since the FIRST game, otherwise Mario games never had too much interaction with the environment outside the player's character.
I feel that they learned something from their work in the movie. The animations look so expresive, like they are having fun, seems like pure joy. I just love the jump animation.
I didn't LOVE the movie, but one thing I was thinking when Mario and luigi was doing the platform part in Brooklyn in the beginning was id LOVE a Mario game like that.. Almost more of a Mario parkour than a Mario platformer ... This isn't exactly what I was wishing for but it's a fantastic step in the right direction
Weirdness is what used to make Mario so much fun, but in the last decade or so Mario was just too safe. I really hope this level of creativity spills over to the spinoffs as well.
I feel like the last time we saw Mario be "wierd" was back in Odyssey. All the different kingdoms in that game with the diverse people inhabiting them and how unique they looked from one another. Then there's the Capture ability and all of the creatures and objects that you could never imagine taking control of. I still remember having my mind blown seeing Bowser ride up to Mario and Cappy on the back of a realistic dragon. And then that just stopped the following year with Mario Tennis Aces, where it was almost kind if your generic Mario sports game. And Mario just kind of stuck like that for the rest of the Switch's lifespan until Wonder, where now we actually see Nintendo finally go back to experimenting with Mario and making him weird again. It's a breath of fresh air after 6 years.
Last time 2D Mario was this weird is probably Mario Land 2 on GB. Since then the Wario Land games took on the most of the weirdness while 2D Mario stayed relatively safe. But we haven't had a new Wario Land in a while
So crazy to me how when they added 4 players to Mario bros they looked at the whole entire cast of Mario characters and said “yeah let’s have toad, TWICE”
@@TheAlibabatree Yes, but Mario has been weird in the same exact way with little variation (barring a few outliers like Odyssey) for 15-20 years, and when weird becomes familiar, it stops feeling weird. It's nice to get that weirdness back in full force, and with that weirdness being put into the next big 2D mainline game, the games that have been feeling this stagnancy for longer than any other aspect of the franchise, it feels like they're finally climbing out of the rut. Out of the New™ (Why does that convert into an emoji? It looks so ugly and out-of-place in emoji form!) and into the new.
@Luigicat11 exactly. I feel like Mario Odyssey was weird and different. It's like Arlo is forgetting that somehow. The "weirdness" isn't out of nowhere.
I absolutely adore how expressive the characters in this game are. It's just incredible how whimsical and fun this game looks, I can't wait to play it.
12:10 I like how they actually seem to have unique animations for going in pipes now, instead of just standing in place and sinking down. You can see Peach pull herself up out of the pipe!
The three quarters angle on all of the playable characters really makes a difference and it is very apparent for mario specifically. Not only does the angle change allow for clearer facial expressions, that slight angle change also puts his character model so much closer in line with the classic 2d art. His jumping animation looks so spot on. New and old at the same time.
I think what sells me on how much work they put into the animation is the smallest detail of how the running animation has smear frames. Usually, for 3d animations in games, it's just move leg from this position to that position. The smear frames just give it more personality, style, and fluidity.
I never realized that they were using smear frames, but you're right. The smears do help to give mario's movement more charm and personality. It actually gives me that same kind of feel that sonic's running does.
They really managed to convert those 2D drawings into 3D, and do so many unique things with it. Mario losing hit hat in a pipe and grabbing it is *cheffs kiss*
@dayton977 It's been around WAY before Spider-verse. It just popularized it for Western audiences. Plus, Rayman Legends is another platformer that has already done a similar style to this.
This Artstyle is literally PERFECT for Mario. The 2.5D look and Watercolors matches the wacky and trippy nature super well. Imagine the Paintings back in 64, except it's 2D and you become a part of the Art piece.
I'd love to see a stage based off Picasso or Dali. Imagine just how far they push the concepts of those sort of stages like the ghost stage based off of Vincent van Gogh.
My thing that I really appreciate that due to How Mario is rendered, it makes him vaguely reminiscent of the old clay Mario cover arts that Nintendo Power had. While some are really off, there are couple covers that similar to how Mario looks here when jumps. So I'd be very happy to hear if those old covers played a role in the art style for this game.
It’s so interesting just rewatching the trailer footage. It’s a unique 2d look for Mario. I dont know if anyone else feels this way but this gives me a similar claymation feel to it. Like its extremely fluid in its animations but when you see Mario get a mushroom its choppy, but in a way that feels deliberate. It reminds me of a Wallace and Gromit type of movement and I love it❤❤❤
I noticed that too. I personally love how the new style looks and the claymation feel to it makes this game already seem so unique compared to practically every other mario game.
I kinda hate the word fluid for animation because it doesn’t really mean anything but, the comparison to claymation is pretty apt. This model for Mario is incredibly rigid with almost 0 swash and stretch or distortion. I feel like it might be trying too emulate the look of sprites like smb3 where the characters snap between sets of poses.
I love that all the sprites are turning out. Like, you can always see both eyes. They’re 2.5d, technically, but they’re more like 2d models with sculpted textures. It’s a big part of what makes this iteration stand out, right from the get go.
@@der4rdi They might be sprites of 3D models, like how Super Mario Maker did it. I'd love a stylish HD sprite-based platformer, the last big one was Wario Land on the Wii.
I think the weirdness in this game is a bit reminiscent of Super Mario Maker: Experimental gimmicks serving as a theme around every individual level, the talking flowers being sort of reminiscent of little comment messages placed in the middle of the levels, and little sprinkles of odd/silly japanese humor. To me it'd make sense if that's where they drew inspiration from for where to take 2D mainline Mario next.
That's a reason I loved the first mario maker so much, it was so uncompromisingly weird compared to other mario games at the time, which fits perfectly with the insanity that people would end up creating
The Wonder Flower mechanic reminds me of MM2's Night Stages where platforms and power ups are very different from the Day Stages making them feel like a different level IMO.
To put it in perspective: The way I feel about this game is the exact way I felt when I first saw Super Mario World, everything new, colorful, different and with style. I never thought id have that same feeling as a kid again until now.
Peach, Daisy and Yoshi being playable, awesome. And the elephant Mario is hilarious which makes me hope that each character (Yoshi included) has a pachyderm form.
Honestly when I saw Daisy as the player 4 it seemed so obvious. Mario and Luigi are 1 and 2, Peach and Toad have been 3 and 4 historically as far as I know. Why is Daisy so under utilized?
The moment I saw the art style it immediately reminded me of Rayman Legends, and I wonder if it's the same team working on this! The cartoony animations, the coloring, the details, all look sooo much like the beautiful Rayman Legends level design I love it
I love it. The whole aesthetic really reminds me of Mario and Luigi Dream Team where it seems like getting Wonder Flowers switches the normal world to a magical parallel world.
Seeing Mario doing the P run and jump from smb3, along side his and the other's new animations already makes everything feel so much more unique. They even changed the air spin!?
The implications of this game really excite me. If NSMB had such a noticeable, lasting effect on the spinoffs, could Wonder as well? With all its creativity and weirdness? I really hope so :)
Also, not sure if this needs to be mentioned, but Peach being a character means she won't be a damsel in distress in this game. Maybe we're getting a weird little plot, too!
My main takeaway from Wonder's spot on Direct was in two parts: 1- the animations and almost storyboard-esque design and art direction is incredible, and my eyeholes cannot get enough. 2- YOU CAN PLAY AS BEST PRINCESS
Look at 11:36 and focus on Peach. Look at how expressive her animations are. She pops up, opens her eyes, takes stock, pops up then looks around. That level of detail is EVERYWHERE in this game. There are so many unique animations. That's my favorite part of Wonder so far.
I love how Mario's poses and movements are based on the old artstyle you can find in intruction booklets during the (S)NES era. It's kinda like 2.5D look with a static angle. It also kind of reminds me of the way Rayman Legends portrayed its movements. It's not quite as cartoony, but the part where Mario enters and exits the horizontal pipe reminds me a lot of Rayman's use of 2.5D. The backgrounds and dreamy elements also seem to take inspiration from Mario & Luigi Dream Team, which is really cool because that game had an amazing art direction.
The transition between animations in a smooth and carried out way is called "tweeining." It's actually a very involved part of the process of animation that requires its own separate team of animators.
I think my favorite part of this game is Mario's animations are almost all from the promotional illustrations for Mario 3 and Mario World. That era of the series marketing has had a timeless art style that the hardware just couldn't replicate and I'm so happy to see those illustrations finally get to be put to good use
i really like the talking flowers, i think the fact they're more charming and cheering you on and happy to see you rather than snarky and sarcastic makes them a lot less annoying than they could be, i don't quite know how to explain it but i really liked the "Roll, roll, roll!" part, something about the way that all played out made me think "You know what, these talking flowers are alright, i like them.
9:50 To answer your question, Daisy is probably here because we're in the Flower Kingdom, not the Mushroom Kingdom this time around. Its her domain so she's probably joining in on the adventure. at 10:01 you can see the level state "Welcome to the Flower Kingdom", so I assume she will be involved with the plot and possibly those Wonder Flowers.
oh yes your feelings are valid I saw lots of people on TH-cam covering the direct scream with joy about Daisy in live reactions so if they tried to hide their emotions too late!😂
I'm impressed by the lighting and effects. There's so little to the design of something like, say, a coin, and yet even the coins feel so much more bespoke and satisfying if you look closely.
11:41 Just noticed Peach’s little animation coming out of the pipe. Not much but it’s cute! I love the care you put into your reactions, Arlo! Keep it up!
One thing that I think is really cool that I haven’t seen many people bring up is how Yoshi looks a lot closer to his original SMW design in Wonder, rather than his modern design.
I think its really cool that they are keeping the Odyssey-esque power ups in this one with the Elephant and the rolling spike ball being some of the brief examples that they have shown so far.
Hey Arlo, I'm graduating high school today and am extremely nervous, but watching your videos this morning put me in a more calm mood, thank you for entertaining me and thousands of others for so many years.
it's not so bad, it feels weird for a little while but eventually it becomes normal. but if your like me you still have weird dreams about school every night.
Some things I love already just from the trailer: - How expressive Mario (and crew?) is. These new animations are legitimately so charming for me. - The bouncy hippos. They're so silly! - Those white and blue Reznor-like guys. They're cute and cool, darnit! - Of course I have to mention the elephant powerup. Excited to see what it will do! - Pickups that affect the world around you; that's going to lend so much to creativity!
I think my favorite part of the art style is how kinetic everything is. Also, did anyone notice how the purple “coins” work? They have like a decimal point and the collection of them seems weird. Also also, did anyone notice peach also uses a pink hat with a p on it like Mario to glide? For some reason that is extremely funny to me, because she’s just never had a hat before.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the elephant can't jump. They have those coins in the air to make you want to jump, thereby demonstrating the mechanic, and then the goomba that you have to walk into rather than jump on.
It looks weird, it looks wonderful, but most of all it looks like the perfect amount of fun, Mario whimsy. Wild that it might even be winning Arlo over!
100% agree with all of this. I was sort of deflated to see the last reveal be a 2D Mario game until I saw it in motion. Just the fact that Mario looks and is animated so differently, and yet *subtly* differently, stood out to me and immediately got my attention. Wonder looks absolutely fantastic and I can't wait to play it.
World is my favorite, but the “new” games lack the challenge and mental depth of World. I feel like this will be the same. World was challenging and smart and often had you solve puzzles for alternate exits or,’if you couldn’t, have to find alternative paths to proceed in the main world. I want that kind of game again. The simple overworks that just progresses linearly isn’t as fun.
Seems kind of like Celeste where each level has a gimmick or two that you interact with throughout the level. The wonder mechanic will make each level play totally unique and fresh.
@@TheAlibabatreeDang… people constantly discredit New Soup DS because its sequels didn’t change much, but back in 2006 it was genuinely fresh, and established a number of things that the series takes for granted (canyon and jungle themes, actually useful collectibles, 3D moveset in 2D, etc.)
@@FedoraKirb DS was genuinely great and really fresh, and Wii was really good as well, with multiplayer and some genuinely creative enemy and level designs. 2 and U were too iterative with too few additions from DS and Wii. If Luigi U was the third game, there would be no NSMB burnt-out.
I love the lil talking flower lol. It adds so much personality to the world, in my opinion! It's one of my favorite things about this new game if I'm being honest. I also think the name Super Mario Bros. Wonder is a great, 10/10 name and I'm so excited for it!
Mario's look in this game reminds me a lot of how he looked back in the days of hand-crafted sprites, with the cheated angles and exaggerated features. It's a good look!
only thing i'm worried-ish about is that it seems like everyone has the same moveset? in past games playing as luigi makes you slippery and gives you a higher jump, peach is slower but has a hover ability, toad can't jump as high but runs faster, etc. but from what i could see it seems like everyone plays about the same, to the point of peach pulling out a plumber-style hat to float down just like mario's in the clip and luigi's on the cover art
Agreed, this game feels like the “Spiderverse” of Mario because of how stylized it is, how they’re playing with the frame rates of Mario’s movement and throwing all kinds of wacky colors and visual effects into the background.
Didn’t notice how different the music was until Arlo mentioned it. It’s WILD and I can’t wait for musicians to remix it and use it in all sorts of wild ways. Or just listen as is.
There's a lot of room for growth in the Mario franchise. I mean, look at Kirby. It sounds weird to have him in a mech suit, but Plantet Robobot was one of the stand outs in the series.
This feels so imaginative, and expressive and different from how 2D Mario has been. Weirdly, I think I might be as excited for this as I usually am for 3D Mario
I'm glad we actually have a 2D mario game that is a "switch" game. Mario Bros for U Deluxe is a Wii U port, and while that's usually not too bad, It's literally called Mario Bros for *U* , basically screaming the fact that its a Wii U port meanwhile the others were very subtle about it.
I’m sure Nintendo heard all of the criticisms of Mario being to basic with the “new” series and decided to make a game that will blow the other games out of the window
@@jepompom455New is literally a sub series with 4.5 games in it. They all share a virtually identical aesthetic. Which many people, myself included, were bored of after the 2nd game.
@@jaretco6423 Clearly by release. Most people love New Super Mario Bros. And it was cool to see NSMB Wii on console. But then we got NSMB2, WiiU, and Luigi U all following the same designs. It all kind of blends into each other. Personally the only ones I replay is the first one on DS and Luigi U because it’s different enough.
I noticed the coins interpolate between the keyframes you see in original 2D Marios such as SMB3. You can really notice it @ 6:00 Just another cool animation detail
Super Wonder Bros is a crazy game, love the animations a lot as they're so expressive! Overall the game actually reminds me of the Super Mario Bros Super Show in a way.
I'm a little concerned that the random effect for the wonder flower will be contained to a handful of the seen random effects that it becomes formulaic and predictable. I hope they keep a lot more surprises a secret like totk!
Mario games don't usually use a level gimmick more than twice. You'll get one level that does a thing, and then another level much later in the game that acts as a sequel to that level. Wonder effects will appear twice at most, with some only appearing once. And they're not going to be random, either.
I mean, Mario has always been a weird series conceptually from the beginning. This just feels like a natural artistic development for the series. Obviously they’re not going to switch to this style permanently. This isn’t a big series-wide overhaul. But this could spawn a really nice self-contained series that can inspire more stylized takes on the Mario world, because GOD does the series need it after so much of overdoing the grossly plastic and clean style that all the modern games do.
Just thought of a pretty big detail: Mario almost always uses suits of animals, he never changes himself. Here, the suits stays the same, but HE turns into an elephant. Interesting change.
I speculate that the Wonder Flower is based off the Morning Glory flower, which the hallucinogen LSA (cousin of LSD) is based off of, which means Mario /someone at Nintendo doin drugs
I don't know if it has been discussed before, but to me, Wonder feels like it aims to be the updated versions of Super Mario Land, which also included a lot of interesting and weird mechanics, enemies and interactions. And I am all for it because I loved the Super Mario Lands, specially the 2nd one
I've watched a few reactions to seeing Mario Wonder and I have to say, I'm quite a fan of the talking flowers. For some reason, one of my favorite parts of the trailer is ROLL! ROLL! ROLL! It makes me smile every time.
I'm currently in a Persona 5 vibe and I'm currently in love with every game that isn't afraid to have it's own style and this Mario game definitely catched my attention. First 2D Mario I'm actually stoked to play!
Games have been stepping up their animation game recently. If you’re wondering why it looks so good to watch, it’s because of the use of timing and anticipation. Characters will hold the same position for multiple frames before making an energetic action, such as holding their hands close to their chest for a second before quickly throwing them out to the side in the air. Also there is some little uses of squash and stretch.
Wow, I have watch this trailer multiple time and did not realize there was no time. I am very excited for this 2D Mario, I hope it takes me back to my nostalgic days of playing Super Mario world.
No Arlo, there's nothing weird about a plumber who falls down a pipe into a mushroom land ruled by a pretty in pink princess and her royal subjects of Starr. He eats mushrooms and it makes him unable to get one-shotted. The hills have eyes, so do the clouds and trees. There's also dinosaurs, and a big spikey turtle with orange hair on his head who rules over lesser turtles named Koopas. Dont forget Goombas, what are they? The world may never know.This was all completely normal from the start.
The reason Mario's animations make him seem so good, it's because of how much more character they added to those animations, the running has smear frames on the feet to make it look cartoonish, Mario seems expressive, much more than usual with frowns, little facial changes with either jumps, the animation he makes with his hat entering and exiting a pipe, and his new vibrant color pallet adds to the feeling of a cheerier, more expressive look on the already iconic image he has, they basically added stuff to make Mario feel more cartoony and well, wonderful!
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There's something so unique about how they decided to make Mario's face stick to a specific angle towards the screen at all times; he literally looks like Super Mario 3 box art come to life.
My brother said his jump pose when they zoomed in on him specifically kinda looked like the cover for the first issue of Nintendo Power.
they did something kinda like that in smash ultimate
My mother talked about how mario's jump looked kinda like the cover for the first issue of Nintendo power
Exactly! It's so subtle but it looks like playable box art of mario 3.
Was that the clay one ñ
I love the animation of him running into a horizontal warp pipe. The way he reaches back out to grab his hat, and the little look-around before he comes out the other end, it's so cartoonish, and such a vast upgrade over the tradition of just having him slowly slide through the opening. It adds just a little more personality to him.
One of my favorite parts of the whole trailer
THANK YOU! I thought I was the only one to appreciate that little bit.
Even Peach leaving the vertical pipe, reaching it with her hands, peeking around and then jumping off
You also see that with the slowed down part where he's talking about the background gameplay. The slowed animation highlights how after popping out of the pipe Peach has to cartoonishly exert physical effort to get anything else but her head out of the pipe and continue playing.
# 0001 To me it seems like this kind of style feels a bit like from the Rayman Origins/Legends games when the characters do these little "quirks" whenever they do certain things. Makes me "wonder" if they took inspiration from them since Nintendo and Ubi are affiliated with each other.
And as for Peach, I'm very much confident that her coming out the pipe like that was a callback from Doki Doki Mario 2. Just like how she would sorta struggle to pull turnips and stuff off the ground.
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed the chaos edition of Ocarina as much as I did. I definitely share the excitement for this game. It's cool looking, there's tons of new ideas and more importantly for me, it's unpredictable. Happy to be surprised by a 2D Mario again.
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This is going to sell so well. The switch has a huge user base, in a world post Mario movie plus this wonderful gimmick and style. This will sell like crazy crazy
It better. New, younger gamers need to see how good old fashioned games like this one are, and that a game doesn’t need to be open world to be good.
@@dpackerman4203 preach
Mario is mario if it’s in a RELEVENT console it’ll sell
@@staringcorgi6475 even in an irrelevant console the game sells, "new" super mario bros u sold 5.8 million copies on the wii u, imagine the sale numbers for wonder
I love the animation when peach exits the pipe around 11:40, it’s such a small detail that at regular speed is barely noticeable but still adds to the feel of the game
I noticed that when he talks about the foreground background. Her animation coming out of the pipe is so expressive and so many competent to it
Or 3:44 where Mario catoonishly dashes through the pipe knocking his hat off and Mario grabbing it at the last second before it reaches the ground.
THIS right there, THIS IS WHAT THE NEW FORMULA NEEDED.
this is why it looked so stale and samey every single time, they finally fixed the issue of the recent 2d mario games and i am SO HAPPY ABOUT IT.
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it's so cute!
The animation is SO good looking! So much care went into it.
This is the most unique, colorful, and fun looking 2D Mario game in quite a while, and I can't wait to play. And just imagine the memes of Elephant Mario.
Agreed
It looks so good.
Just gonna leave this here: *Elephant Peach*
and just imagine the art of elephant Mario 😭
"Mario hears a Wahoo" seems to be a favorite meme from what I've seen
This is literally the exact Art Style I have wanted out of a 2D Mario. Every single frame of this game looks delightful
It looks like the older 80s/90s ad artstyles turned 2.5D!
Throwback to the original NES and SNES games
@@supersleepygrumpybearExactly!!!
just when I was saying the art was getting so stagnant, they did something like this. so expressive.
he reminds me of 7 grand dad when he jumps
Daisy's inclusion makes me wonder if maybe this is her kingdom, y'know? Like, all the worlds are weird and strange and new because this is her hanging out with her friends on her own turf
That would be awesome.
A return to sarasaland would be awesome!
I'm glad she's in this game.
Also, the symbol of her flower is on the ground when ur traveling thru levels. Idk what that means but it’s cool
Sarasaland was pretty darn weird in its original incarntion, it's true... I'd be down for that.
I love how Mario straight up BECOMES an elephant. Like, normally it's Mario wearing a costume based on an animal, like Tanooki Mario isn't a real Tanuki but this game is going for weird, so he's just a legit elephant Mario and I love that.
Not only that, but it means every other playable character can become an elephant too. The idea has already reached... cultured minds as to how that could look.
wearing a cat onesie is super weird, the tanuki and squirrel atleast kept the overalls
@@bobvella7228 Well there's also the full tanuki suit which doesn't have the overalls and is a full onesie
Its a mascot costume top to bottom.
Mario now has a fursona
Mario looks a lot happier than usual. It's not just that he's happier either, it's that it's a little bit infectious on top of all the other changes and new enemies and things.
Great so he's gonna seem even more like he's on drugs. At least luigi seems like a person, Mario is just some mindless happy... THING (again doesn't seem like a person) made only for children.
He look like 90s cover art on Gameboy.
Yeah is effervescent on a heroes dose.
I mean, a typical Nintendo move would have been to give New Super Mario Bros. U a few new powers and gimmicks along with a different story and call it good...
This is on a whole other level! I have never seen enemies interact with the environment this much before in ANY Mario game!
At most there were enemies coming out of popes or bumping into walls... and that was since the FIRST game, otherwise Mario games never had too much interaction with the environment outside the player's character.
He's happy because his girlfriend hasn't been captured for the 10,000th time.
The fact that peach is playable means that the story premise will be different. Excited to see what they do with it
My vote: Bowser kidnaps Wario by mistake and they have to go rescue Bowser.
To be fair they did that with 3D world as well since you can play as her. They just had him kidnap someone else. Or rather multiple people.
I think the story is going to be about Bowser's new hair cut.
maybe they're mad at him after he suggested they go to rehab and decided to get revenge
@@jepompom455if you’re right i will pay you twenty dollars daily for the rest of your life
I feel that they learned something from their work in the movie. The animations look so expresive, like they are having fun, seems like pure joy. I just love the jump animation.
I didn't LOVE the movie, but one thing I was thinking when Mario and luigi was doing the platform part in Brooklyn in the beginning was id LOVE a Mario game like that.. Almost more of a Mario parkour than a Mario platformer ... This isn't exactly what I was wishing for but it's a fantastic step in the right direction
Weirdness is what used to make Mario so much fun, but in the last decade or so Mario was just too safe. I really hope this level of creativity spills over to the spinoffs as well.
I feel like the last time we saw Mario be "wierd" was back in Odyssey. All the different kingdoms in that game with the diverse people inhabiting them and how unique they looked from one another. Then there's the Capture ability and all of the creatures and objects that you could never imagine taking control of. I still remember having my mind blown seeing Bowser ride up to Mario and Cappy on the back of a realistic dragon. And then that just stopped the following year with Mario Tennis Aces, where it was almost kind if your generic Mario sports game. And Mario just kind of stuck like that for the rest of the Switch's lifespan until Wonder, where now we actually see Nintendo finally go back to experimenting with Mario and making him weird again. It's a breath of fresh air after 6 years.
Big agree here, weirdness is a big factor in all best Mario games and it’s refreshing after so much New Soup
I’m getting Alice in Wonderland vibes. And I like the 1951 Alice in Wonderland movie.
Last time 2D Mario was this weird is probably Mario Land 2 on GB. Since then the Wario Land games took on the most of the weirdness while 2D Mario stayed relatively safe. But we haven't had a new Wario Land in a while
@@Mal-go5dlyou could argue there were parts of the nsmb games where the team managed to bring back that Mario style though overall I agree.
So crazy to me how when they added 4 players to Mario bros they looked at the whole entire cast of Mario characters and said “yeah let’s have toad, TWICE”
So glad blue toad was killed off. Stupidest character ever.
based
I honestly feel like this “weird” Mario has a lot of potential. I hope they just add a ton of crazy stuff without holding back
Mario has always been weird.
@@TheAlibabatree
Yes, but Mario has been weird in the same exact way with little variation (barring a few outliers like Odyssey) for 15-20 years, and when weird becomes familiar, it stops feeling weird. It's nice to get that weirdness back in full force, and with that weirdness being put into the next big 2D mainline game, the games that have been feeling this stagnancy for longer than any other aspect of the franchise, it feels like they're finally climbing out of the rut. Out of the New™ (Why does that convert into an emoji? It looks so ugly and out-of-place in emoji form!) and into the new.
with the basic artstyle it's already pretty obvious they're holding back
Mario is at its absolute best when it leans into "weirdness", especially when the series was always inspired by Alice in Wonderland.
@Luigicat11 exactly. I feel like Mario Odyssey was weird and different. It's like Arlo is forgetting that somehow. The "weirdness" isn't out of nowhere.
I love how dynamic Mario's hat is. It's like... He looks like Alphadream Mario in a way.
That’s exactly how I felt. He looks exactly like alpha dream Mario to me
now that you mention it, the entire aesthetic that's going on in this game really brings Dream Team to mind
THIS COMMENT AGED WELL!
I’m actually interested in a 2d Mario game, hasn’t happened in over 10 years. It’s about time.
We haven’t gotten a 2d Mario in 10 years
@@owenmeiera *new* 2D Mario, not a remaster, remake, or port.
@@owenmeier 11 years, Luigi U doesn't count as a mainline game
@@notimeforcreativenamesjust3034and not "New Super Mario Bros"
Man you missing out catch up and get your skills back
I absolutely adore how expressive the characters in this game are. It's just incredible how whimsical and fun this game looks, I can't wait to play it.
You and me both! This game is going to be a treat!
12:10 I like how they actually seem to have unique animations for going in pipes now, instead of just standing in place and sinking down. You can see Peach pull herself up out of the pipe!
Yeah, but Wario beat them by 23 years with that.
@@wariolandgoldpiramidyou can’t top wario though
The three quarters angle on all of the playable characters really makes a difference and it is very apparent for mario specifically. Not only does the angle change allow for clearer facial expressions, that slight angle change also puts his character model so much closer in line with the classic 2d art. His jumping animation looks so spot on. New and old at the same time.
I think what sells me on how much work they put into the animation is the smallest detail of how the running animation has smear frames. Usually, for 3d animations in games, it's just move leg from this position to that position. The smear frames just give it more personality, style, and fluidity.
THANK YOU. I knew something was as drawing me in about the animations and now I think it’s the way they have smear frames
I never realized that they were using smear frames, but you're right. The smears do help to give mario's movement more charm and personality. It actually gives me that same kind of feel that sonic's running does.
I love how they use smear frames. They managed to make 3D models look 2D
Same
They really managed to convert those 2D drawings into 3D, and do so many unique things with it. Mario losing hit hat in a pipe and grabbing it is *cheffs kiss*
The Spider-Verse effect
@dayton977 It's been around WAY before Spider-verse. It just popularized it for Western audiences.
Plus, Rayman Legends is another platformer that has already done a similar style to this.
Like the original donkey Kong country trilogy games way back in the 90's for good example.
This Artstyle is literally PERFECT for Mario. The 2.5D look and Watercolors matches the wacky and trippy nature super well. Imagine the Paintings back in 64, except it's 2D and you become a part of the Art piece.
Mario's animations have so much more personality than in any previous game
I'd love to see a stage based off Picasso or Dali. Imagine just how far they push the concepts of those sort of stages like the ghost stage based off of Vincent van Gogh.
That was the best level in U such a cool look
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My thing that I really appreciate that due to How Mario is rendered, it makes him vaguely reminiscent of the old clay Mario cover arts that Nintendo Power had. While some are really off, there are couple covers that similar to how Mario looks here when jumps. So I'd be very happy to hear if those old covers played a role in the art style for this game.
It’s so interesting just rewatching the trailer footage. It’s a unique 2d look for Mario. I dont know if anyone else feels this way but this gives me a similar claymation feel to it. Like its extremely fluid in its animations but when you see Mario get a mushroom its choppy, but in a way that feels deliberate. It reminds me of a Wallace and Gromit type of movement and I love it❤❤❤
I noticed that too. I personally love how the new style looks and the claymation feel to it makes this game already seem so unique compared to practically every other mario game.
I keep replaying the animation of Toad jumping. The snappiness between poses is very compelling and you're right, it's almost stop motiony!
I kinda hate the word fluid for animation because it doesn’t really mean anything but, the comparison to claymation is pretty apt. This model for Mario is incredibly rigid with almost 0 swash and stretch or distortion. I feel like it might be trying too emulate the look of sprites like smb3 where the characters snap between sets of poses.
Yeah, a claymation feel combined with a cartoony style, especially with the animations!
I love that all the sprites are turning out. Like, you can always see both eyes. They’re 2.5d, technically, but they’re more like 2d models with sculpted textures. It’s a big part of what makes this iteration stand out, right from the get go.
They made every pose look like a piece of promotional art.
I'd assume they're not technically sprites at all...
@@der4rdi They might be sprites of 3D models, like how Super Mario Maker did it. I'd love a stylish HD sprite-based platformer, the last big one was Wario Land on the Wii.
It seems like you can move from the foreground and background on some levels. Also the Elephant probably uses the water fountain.
He talks about the foreground and background
I think the weirdness in this game is a bit reminiscent of Super Mario Maker: Experimental gimmicks serving as a theme around every individual level, the talking flowers being sort of reminiscent of little comment messages placed in the middle of the levels, and little sprinkles of odd/silly japanese humor. To me it'd make sense if that's where they drew inspiration from for where to take 2D mainline Mario next.
WHAT THE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELL OOOOH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOD NOWAYAYAYAYAYAYA!
That's a reason I loved the first mario maker so much, it was so uncompromisingly weird compared to other mario games at the time, which fits perfectly with the insanity that people would end up creating
The Wonder Flower mechanic reminds me of MM2's Night Stages where platforms and power ups are very different from the Day Stages making them feel like a different level IMO.
Yooo that’s genuinely a good point!
I Hope this is a level style in mm3
To put it in perspective: The way I feel about this game is the exact way I felt when I first saw Super Mario World, everything new, colorful, different and with style. I never thought id have that same feeling as a kid again until now.
Peach, Daisy and Yoshi being playable, awesome.
And the elephant Mario is hilarious which makes me hope that each character (Yoshi included) has a pachyderm form.
Even if the Yoshis are for select levels, being able to play as Yoshi independently in Mario is big
@@aaronolson6736Super Mario 64 DS
I think Yoshi is gonna be an “easy mode” character
What if elephant mario rides yoshi 😳
Honestly when I saw Daisy as the player 4 it seemed so obvious. Mario and Luigi are 1 and 2, Peach and Toad have been 3 and 4 historically as far as I know. Why is Daisy so under utilized?
The moment I saw the art style it immediately reminded me of Rayman Legends, and I wonder if it's the same team working on this! The cartoony animations, the coloring, the details, all look sooo much like the beautiful Rayman Legends level design I love it
I love it. The whole aesthetic really reminds me of Mario and Luigi Dream Team where it seems like getting Wonder Flowers switches the normal world to a magical parallel world.
Seeing Mario doing the P run and jump from smb3, along side his and the other's new animations already makes everything feel so much more unique. They even changed the air spin!?
The implications of this game really excite me. If NSMB had such a noticeable, lasting effect on the spinoffs, could Wonder as well? With all its creativity and weirdness? I really hope so :)
Also, not sure if this needs to be mentioned, but Peach being a character means she won't be a damsel in distress in this game. Maybe we're getting a weird little plot, too!
What if the weird plot is peach rescuing peach
I didn’t think they COULD make a new original 2D platforming Mario game
But they did
@@bighand1530 I know, I was saying I previously did not think they could make an original new 2D mario game
My main takeaway from Wonder's spot on Direct was in two parts:
1- the animations and almost storyboard-esque design and art direction is incredible, and my eyeholes cannot get enough.
2- YOU CAN PLAY AS BEST PRINCESS
What makes me so exited is that all of these new looks are extremely similar to the ones all the way back in super Mario world
Look at 11:36 and focus on Peach. Look at how expressive her animations are. She pops up, opens her eyes, takes stock, pops up then looks around.
That level of detail is EVERYWHERE in this game. There are so many unique animations. That's my favorite part of Wonder so far.
They want Daisy as a character in the next movie. I think that is likely a large reason why she is showing up in a mainline game like this.
The prospects of Nintendo letting themselves be more creative and innovative in games because of the movies is really exciting
Yes
Wait wtf, their making another?
@@windlessdoot7877the first one made a billion dollars so yes
@@windlessdoot7877the first one made over a billion dollars
I love how Mario's poses and movements are based on the old artstyle you can find in intruction booklets during the (S)NES era. It's kinda like 2.5D look with a static angle. It also kind of reminds me of the way Rayman Legends portrayed its movements. It's not quite as cartoony, but the part where Mario enters and exits the horizontal pipe reminds me a lot of Rayman's use of 2.5D. The backgrounds and dreamy elements also seem to take inspiration from Mario & Luigi Dream Team, which is really cool because that game had an amazing art direction.
The game looks like Mario's version of Alice & Wonderland. Just super weird and trippy and I love it.
The transition between animations in a smooth and carried out way is called "tweeining." It's actually a very involved part of the process of animation that requires its own separate team of animators.
I’m sure Nintendo saw how people enjoyed creative weird Mario Maker levels, and decided lots of wacky mechanics and surprises is fun
I think the talking flowers are delightful. Their voices are pretty nice. That last one in particular was pretty fun.
I think my favorite part of this game is Mario's animations are almost all from the promotional illustrations for Mario 3 and Mario World. That era of the series marketing has had a timeless art style that the hardware just couldn't replicate and I'm so happy to see those illustrations finally get to be put to good use
i really like the talking flowers, i think the fact they're more charming and cheering you on and happy to see you rather than snarky and sarcastic makes them a lot less annoying than they could be, i don't quite know how to explain it but i really liked the "Roll, roll, roll!" part, something about the way that all played out made me think "You know what, these talking flowers are alright, i like them.
9:50 To answer your question, Daisy is probably here because we're in the Flower Kingdom, not the Mushroom Kingdom this time around. Its her domain so she's probably joining in on the adventure. at 10:01 you can see the level state "Welcome to the Flower Kingdom", so I assume she will be involved with the plot and possibly those Wonder Flowers.
Her domain is Sahasraland unless they retcon that for some reason.
I love the way it looks so much. The pastels really make the colors pop.
I literally screamed with joy when Daisy appeared on screen
@@MarioMario-qn2bowhat 😭
waw
oh yes your feelings are valid I saw lots of people on TH-cam covering the direct scream with joy about Daisy in live reactions so if they tried to hide their emotions too late!😂
Same here
@@StonyBroiYou don't know about the Sarasaland Massacre, son...?
I'm impressed by the lighting and effects.
There's so little to the design of something like, say, a coin, and yet even the coins feel so much more bespoke and satisfying if you look closely.
11:41 Just noticed Peach’s little animation coming out of the pipe. Not much but it’s cute!
I love the care you put into your reactions, Arlo! Keep it up!
One thing that I think is really cool that I haven’t seen many people bring up is how Yoshi looks a lot closer to his original SMW design in Wonder, rather than his modern design.
I think its really cool that they are keeping the Odyssey-esque power ups in this one with the Elephant and the rolling spike ball being some of the brief examples that they have shown so far.
Hey Arlo, I'm graduating high school today and am extremely nervous, but watching your videos this morning put me in a more calm mood, thank you for entertaining me and thousands of others for so many years.
it's not so bad, it feels weird for a little while but eventually it becomes normal. but if your like me you still have weird dreams about school every night.
good luck out there in the world buddy!
Some things I love already just from the trailer:
- How expressive Mario (and crew?) is. These new animations are legitimately so charming for me.
- The bouncy hippos. They're so silly!
- Those white and blue Reznor-like guys. They're cute and cool, darnit!
- Of course I have to mention the elephant powerup. Excited to see what it will do!
- Pickups that affect the world around you; that's going to lend so much to creativity!
Some things I love to:
-Mario tripping balls
-LSD
-Acid
-Cocaine
-methamphetamine
-Elephants
-Drugs in general
The reznor guys are wearing funny pants if you look at the box art :D
I think my favorite part of the art style is how kinetic everything is. Also, did anyone notice how the purple “coins” work? They have like a decimal point and the collection of them seems weird. Also also, did anyone notice peach also uses a pink hat with a p on it like Mario to glide? For some reason that is extremely funny to me, because she’s just never had a hat before.
it's so funny, i love the hat and the fact that it just comes out of nowhere
I have a sneaking suspicion that the elephant can't jump. They have those coins in the air to make you want to jump, thereby demonstrating the mechanic, and then the goomba that you have to walk into rather than jump on.
that would make sense - it's too heavy!
Yeah but maybe you get a charge/dash, they arnt exactly known for it but elephants can Run!
Love that they're really leaning into the acid trip aesthetic
It looks weird, it looks wonderful, but most of all it looks like the perfect amount of fun, Mario whimsy. Wild that it might even be winning Arlo over!
100% agree with all of this. I was sort of deflated to see the last reveal be a 2D Mario game until I saw it in motion. Just the fact that Mario looks and is animated so differently, and yet *subtly* differently, stood out to me and immediately got my attention. Wonder looks absolutely fantastic and I can't wait to play it.
This game looks like if they hadn't thought to make Super Mario World until now and I love it. All the new stuff looks so silly
perhaps too silly
Miyamoto: "I got too silly :skull:"
@@autistic_potato1037 💀💀💀
I say embrace the silliness!
World is my favorite, but the “new” games lack the challenge and mental depth of World. I feel like this will be the same. World was challenging and smart and often had you solve puzzles for alternate exits or,’if you couldn’t, have to find alternative paths to proceed in the main world. I want that kind of game again. The simple overworks that just progresses linearly isn’t as fun.
Seems kind of like Celeste where each level has a gimmick or two that you interact with throughout the level. The wonder mechanic will make each level play totally unique and fresh.
This looks like the best 2D Mario since the SNES days which was 30 years ago! So crazy!!
True. But, not a high bar. I would say its the ONLY game since Mario World 2 that looks to continue the franchise.
I thought you said 30 days ago the first two times i read this and i was so perplexed 😂
@@TheAlibabatreenew soup DS/Wii were good in their own right, and the 3D games are all fantastic
@@TheAlibabatreeDang… people constantly discredit New Soup DS because its sequels didn’t change much, but back in 2006 it was genuinely fresh, and established a number of things that the series takes for granted (canyon and jungle themes, actually useful collectibles, 3D moveset in 2D, etc.)
@@FedoraKirb DS was genuinely great and really fresh, and Wii was really good as well, with multiplayer and some genuinely creative enemy and level designs. 2 and U were too iterative with too few additions from DS and Wii. If Luigi U was the third game, there would be no NSMB burnt-out.
I love the lil talking flower lol. It adds so much personality to the world, in my opinion! It's one of my favorite things about this new game if I'm being honest.
I also think the name Super Mario Bros. Wonder is a great, 10/10 name and I'm so excited for it!
Arlo's pumping videos out like a machine!
His editor is doing fantastic work. They make a great team and I’m grateful for it.
Mario's look in this game reminds me a lot of how he looked back in the days of hand-crafted sprites, with the cheated angles and exaggerated features. It's a good look!
mario and gang have soo much personality in this game. The whole game does tbh
only thing i'm worried-ish about is that it seems like everyone has the same moveset?
in past games playing as luigi makes you slippery and gives you a higher jump, peach is slower but has a hover ability, toad can't jump as high but runs faster, etc.
but from what i could see it seems like everyone plays about the same, to the point of peach pulling out a plumber-style hat to float down just like mario's in the clip and luigi's on the cover art
The animation styles has that Spiderverse energy because now every pose looks like a piece of promotional art. ESPECIALLY Mario's jump. Hot damn.
Agreed, this game feels like the “Spiderverse” of Mario because of how stylized it is, how they’re playing with the frame rates of Mario’s movement and throwing all kinds of wacky colors and visual effects into the background.
Imagine "What's up Danger" playing in the final world
Didn’t notice how different the music was until Arlo mentioned it. It’s WILD and I can’t wait for musicians to remix it and use it in all sorts of wild ways. Or just listen as is.
There's a lot of room for growth in the Mario franchise. I mean, look at Kirby. It sounds weird to have him in a mech suit, but Plantet Robobot was one of the stand outs in the series.
Super Paper Mario has also done the “go-in-the-background” thing before, but that was a Paper Mario game not a 2D platformer
This feels so imaginative, and expressive and different from how 2D Mario has been.
Weirdly, I think I might be as excited for this as I usually am for 3D Mario
I'm glad we actually have a 2D mario game that is a "switch" game. Mario Bros for U Deluxe is a Wii U port, and while that's usually not too bad, It's literally called Mario Bros for *U* , basically screaming the fact that its a Wii U port meanwhile the others were very subtle about it.
I’m sure Nintendo heard all of the criticisms of Mario being to basic with the “new” series and decided to make a game that will blow the other games out of the window
I think it’s also their attempt to answer the “how do you make a 2D Mario in the age of Mario Maker?” question.
But is it a new ''Super Mario Bros.'' or is it a new not ''New'' ''Super Mario Bros.''
@@jepompom455New is literally a sub series with 4.5 games in it. They all share a virtually identical aesthetic. Which many people, myself included, were bored of after the 2nd game.
@@JamienautMark2When u said 2nd game, do u mean NSMB Wii or NSMB 2?
@@jaretco6423 Clearly by release. Most people love New Super Mario Bros. And it was cool to see NSMB Wii on console. But then we got NSMB2, WiiU, and Luigi U all following the same designs. It all kind of blends into each other. Personally the only ones I replay is the first one on DS and Luigi U because it’s different enough.
I noticed the coins interpolate between the keyframes you see in original 2D Marios such as SMB3. You can really notice it @ 6:00
Just another cool animation detail
The characters look like the old box art, and I'm LOVING IT!!
Same!
Super Wonder Bros is a crazy game, love the animations a lot as they're so expressive! Overall the game actually reminds me of the Super Mario Bros Super Show in a way.
I think the recent Mario movie inspired the gang at the big N.
Daisy being playable in a mainline 2D Mario Platform is kinda crazy; especially since you'd think it would've had happened already by now.
one thing I noticed at 11:32 is that the characters now actually climb out of the pipes which is an amazing small touch that I love
I'm a little concerned that the random effect for the wonder flower will be contained to a handful of the seen random effects that it becomes formulaic and predictable. I hope they keep a lot more surprises a secret like totk!
If possible, I'll want every level to have a completely different wonder flower effect. Just imagine the possibilities!
Mario games don't usually use a level gimmick more than twice. You'll get one level that does a thing, and then another level much later in the game that acts as a sequel to that level.
Wonder effects will appear twice at most, with some only appearing once. And they're not going to be random, either.
@@alfo2804you don’t know that
@@yourehereforthatarentyou I do, actually.
@@alfo2804I mean, you *don’t*.
You can be reasonably sure, or confident, but that doesn’t mean you *know*. Unless you work at Nintendo or something
I mean, Mario has always been a weird series conceptually from the beginning. This just feels like a natural artistic development for the series. Obviously they’re not going to switch to this style permanently. This isn’t a big series-wide overhaul. But this could spawn a really nice self-contained series that can inspire more stylized takes on the Mario world, because GOD does the series need it after so much of overdoing the grossly plastic and clean style that all the modern games do.
Just thought of a pretty big detail: Mario almost always uses suits of animals, he never changes himself. Here, the suits stays the same, but HE turns into an elephant. Interesting change.
except in Odyssey
I speculate that the Wonder Flower is based off the Morning Glory flower, which the hallucinogen LSA (cousin of LSD) is based off of, which means Mario /someone at Nintendo doin drugs
I don't know if it has been discussed before, but to me, Wonder feels like it aims to be the updated versions of Super Mario Land, which also included a lot of interesting and weird mechanics, enemies and interactions. And I am all for it because I loved the Super Mario Lands, specially the 2nd one
And this is the mainline Mario game that Daisy makes her playable debut.
Explains why daisy is included
I've watched a few reactions to seeing Mario Wonder and I have to say, I'm quite a fan of the talking flowers. For some reason, one of my favorite parts of the trailer is ROLL! ROLL! ROLL! It makes me smile every time.
The colors / Art style are almost psychedelic , I like it
smb trip balls just flows better
I'm currently in a Persona 5 vibe and I'm currently in love with every game that isn't afraid to have it's own style and this Mario game definitely catched my attention. First 2D Mario I'm actually stoked to play!
Games have been stepping up their animation game recently. If you’re wondering why it looks so good to watch, it’s because of the use of timing and anticipation. Characters will hold the same position for multiple frames before making an energetic action, such as holding their hands close to their chest for a second before quickly throwing them out to the side in the air. Also there is some little uses of squash and stretch.
2D Mario has gone in the background before and a bit more often than you’d think
Wow, I have watch this trailer multiple time and did not realize there was no time. I am very excited for this 2D Mario, I hope it takes me back to my nostalgic days of playing Super Mario world.
No Arlo, there's nothing weird about a plumber who falls down a pipe into a mushroom land ruled by a pretty in pink princess and her royal subjects of Starr. He eats mushrooms and it makes him unable to get one-shotted. The hills have eyes, so do the clouds and trees. There's also dinosaurs, and a big spikey turtle with orange hair on his head who rules over lesser turtles named Koopas. Dont forget Goombas, what are they? The world may never know.This was all completely normal from the start.
Goombas are mushroom-people, like toads.
This art style looks well suited to handheld mode
I didn't even notice there was no timer, that's amazing!
The reason Mario's animations make him seem so good, it's because of how much more character they added to those animations, the running has smear frames on the feet to make it look cartoonish, Mario seems expressive, much more than usual with frowns, little facial changes with either jumps, the animation he makes with his hat entering and exiting a pipe, and his new vibrant color pallet adds to the feeling of a cheerier, more expressive look on the already iconic image he has, they basically added stuff to make Mario feel more cartoony and well, wonderful!
Nintendo stubbornly avoiding making the psychedelic powerup a mushroom like we'll never make the connection