u/Dorayakiss

Okay, straight to the point, with the series ending we can conclude that despite SMG4 story is set within Super Mario world, at the end there are still almost 80% contents that didn't show up, or didn't get fully utilized in SMG4's adaption or story arcs.

I think it is especially weird for SMG4 team being videogame / Super Mario fans--- assume they are. Or is it more correct to assume that they're not really passionate Mario fans?

"Because they want to focus on the main cast", well I can forsee this answer, but I don't think that would stop most Mario characters from participating as key characters or background. Or could say there is more potential to have SMG4 main cast participate in more Super Mario world events and inspire more stories.

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I'd give a classfication to sort out what potentials we missed:

1) Wario series

I've mentioned this one in several posts and it worthes to mention again. Warioware is literally SMG4's typical taste, so not only it's a waste to not use it, but even more surprising to see SMG4 team not showing passion to utilize it as if their preference is the opposite of this series. There is just too much potential for fun story if SMG4 cast meet Warioware cast in person.

And what makes it more bizzare is Waluigi arc. As we know, Wario series is the entire reason why Wario is invited / why Waluigi isn't invited to Smash. It'd be very illogical to ignore Wario series settings if we break the 4th wall and use fan perspective to argue over Waluigi's and Wario's qualification for Smash.

I assume SMG4 team clearly knew it when they have Waluigi use Ashley's stick, so it feels more like a sign they want to avoid using them in real story. But that doesn't really help the story if they refuse to deal with the qualification issue.

2) Mario Golf 64, Tennis 64, Diddy Kong Racing and DKC 64

You might ask why I list these games together? Well, they're all N64 console games.

As we know, SMG4 was built on bloopers with Gmod which imports the assets of Super Mario 64. But to my surprise, we've never really seen the athlete characters from Golf and Tennis, and DKC series characters imported to Gmod.

I know the early bloopers still worked out, but I always think it's a miss for SMG4 to not also import the useable characters for more diverse background civillains along with the OCs they created via re-coloring Mario's textures. It could had been sweet if we can have characters like Plum, Alex and the animal friends pay a visit to Peach's castle from time to time, and eventually participate in modern story arcs with updated renders.

3) Main cast

Sure, it's no brainer to see some characters are way less utilized than the rest. While Peach being sealed for the most of time in late story arcs is an obvious issue, quite many notable main characters like Daisy and Pauline are also very underused.

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Of course, not all Super Mario fans are passionate with every single game within this franchise, and this sure could be the case for SMG4 team. If entirely based on the execution, it feels like SM64 and Mario are the only part that the team consistently take care of and they might not have that much experience with the rest of Super Mario videogames.

But for a web series of hundred episodes, it's overall a huge miss to leave so much Super Mario contents untouched, cause this series might had been longer by using more Mario contents.

*Light spoiler about Illumination movie series, but wouldn't bother too much in comprehension.

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Altho, technically Mario and Peach are still in the safe zone of friendship, Galaxy movie story pushed it really far, with obvious hinting on Mario's feel for Peach which is something we didn't really have in games over the years.

That yet again remind us of the 1989 movie story when Miyamoto determined to not make Mario and Peach a couple, but after that, we don't really see Mario and Peach keep dating other characters in following games or cartoon adaption.

A potential assumption could be that, even though Miyamoto wanted to friendzone Mario and Peach at first, he found out that he has no intention to bring Peach's boyfriend (Haru, by the 1989 story) and Mario's girlfriend (likely Pauline, by the original DK arcade story) into Super Mario's main storytelling, and as long as Peach remains as the face of the franchise, the situation sorta forces Miyamoto to forget about the forsaid setting and keep pushing Mario and Peach as the key characters of following games, before he inclines to shipping in modern era.

Do you think there are some other reasons for his change in mind?

Okay, starting from now this project will also include some new characters I obtained from commisions.

It's no wonder Captain Syrup is a very memorable being both due to her beauty and the first ever female lead villain in Super Mario world, and is always considered as a miss for main cast potential. Sadly, for now it's unlikely for Jakks to do any character that isn't considered as a major Super Mario core regular unless she manages to make a major official return.

Argh, clearly it's not my creation but r/pokuspumpkin's instead. Owing to that I'll post another one later.

I'd say it's still a huge miss for him to not make it into WoN via the Galaxy movie entry. Still, since his size is theoretically unfeasible for regular figure packages, I assume he'd be a pack inclusion in the timeline where he joins WoN.

It's hard to give a good definition, but I'll try:

*A story that comes with multiple protagonists, who know each other and get to interact with each other's love interest or sub characters.

*Therefore, it cannot be seperate groups from different regions, time or different gens (e.g. Tokimeki series).

*Don't need to be exactly in same game disk, seperate game disks and sequels count.

Clearly multiple protagonists isn't a major trend in either otogames or boy's romance sims, likely because it's both not easy in storywriting as well as difficult in pleasing major otomegamers.

It should still be technically possible to promote a sub character girl from the original game and tell her own romance in a spin-off game, but looks like most game developers don't find this idea interesting.

What's your take on this genre overall? Do you think it could be applied more often?

It's another easy re-paint job, altho needs to find a proper bead on the top of head.

Lubba's scale happens to fit in the official yo-yo, and it's a weird concidence that Nintendo deleted her from the movie adaption despite of her original role. She could had really been an official product if Nintendo had love for her IMO.

Alright, I'm sure not the best in the entire community, but as long as any try is worthy, I decide to start the project called EIS aka Everyone Is Here. Hope that I have enough guts to make it to at least no.20.

You may remember from my old post that Sushie is an easily achievable custom---- or just a simple repaint that Jakks can even do themselves.

Guest entry is sure now a heat topic. But instead of arguing whether their entry is appropriate for Super Mario canon, I also find another issue that it seems to not be fully embraced right in the beginning.

As the first movie located in realworld city, I think it would had been very convenient to introduce Nintendo celebrities who come from realworld background. Francis and owners are especially the obvious case that could had been swapped with the famous Duckhunt dog or Nintendogs.

All I can think is this decision just came out for the 2026 sequel and it wasn't a thing for 2023 project. But if the 2023 result cannot be reverted, I think it'd be rather weird for the sequel to start to do it on the basis of 2023 story, which would ruin the consistency.