Anonymous
6/20/2025, 7:47:28 PM No.713188816
Mario Wonder was one thing but DK Bananza really cements it, it's crazy how right Miyamoto was when he said this.
>MIYAMOTO:
>Unless you're careful, there's a tendency for games like Mario that can be played by children to gradually become childish. Those making the game tend to unconsciously make them that way. Taking how Mario's line can be scripted as an example, they even propose to write, "Where'd my mommy go?". When someone in their fifties like me hears their player-character speak childishly like that, it doesn't quite sit right. After all, Mario wasn't a game only for children in the first place. As I make a game, I try to keep in mind that guys in their fifties will play it, too.
He was seriously the only thing keeping these games tone from being turned into stuff for 5 year olds? Shortly after he completely left game development, we start to get games in Mario franchise where half the base groans from cringe and the other half has to defend it with
>i-its for children!
without realizing that's the problem.
Miyamoto really earned his keep, now that we can see what would have happened way earlier when he's not around.
>MIYAMOTO:
>Unless you're careful, there's a tendency for games like Mario that can be played by children to gradually become childish. Those making the game tend to unconsciously make them that way. Taking how Mario's line can be scripted as an example, they even propose to write, "Where'd my mommy go?". When someone in their fifties like me hears their player-character speak childishly like that, it doesn't quite sit right. After all, Mario wasn't a game only for children in the first place. As I make a game, I try to keep in mind that guys in their fifties will play it, too.
He was seriously the only thing keeping these games tone from being turned into stuff for 5 year olds? Shortly after he completely left game development, we start to get games in Mario franchise where half the base groans from cringe and the other half has to defend it with
>i-its for children!
without realizing that's the problem.
Miyamoto really earned his keep, now that we can see what would have happened way earlier when he's not around.
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