Thread 715458726

Pauline in the new Donkey Kong will be from *where* above ground?
>New Donk City
>Toad Town/Mushroom Kingdom
>Brooklyn, New York, USA.
>Other
>Left ambiguous

>>715458726 (OP)
New Donk, and daughter of Pauline Sr.

>Jumpman, Mario Sr.
>Lady, Pauline Sr
>Pauline Jr
>Pauline Jr Jr
>Donkey Kong, son of DK jr,
>Donkey Kong characters are on their THIRD generation at this point.
>mario's dad was Jump Man, Mario Sr.
>Pauline Jr Jr is Mario and Pauline's daughter
>Peach is cucked and left out to dry
>The Mario-Donkey Kong storyline runs full circle

>>715459063
Impossible

>>715458726 (OP)
Left ambiguous.

She will be K Rool’s daughter

>>715458726 (OP)
Brooklyn, further complicating Nintendo's awkward attempts to retcon that origin

>>715460089
They never retconned it, Yoshi series is autism.

>>715460089
>>715460269
No, Mario has had wonky lore and backstory for ages, with a lot of contradictions. Mario games NEVER explained where the hell mario or Peach come from,d espite everyone eles being toads in the Mushroom kingdom. Makes sense for them, not the random humans.

Then you had the Donkey Kong games, which were in some kind of city which further complicates things.

Nintendo seems to be hellbent at reforming all this and clarifying. They made sure to everyone that Peach and Pauline are completely separate characters, and introduce New Donk City, a modern slick human cityscape.

Insane how this is actually turning out to be real Kino

Just odd that it comes out so soon, you'd expect a game of this nature to be like the holiday title...so maybe we are getting something even crazier later in the year, especially with Mario's 40th anniversary celebration soon.

>>715460443
https://shmuplations.com/mario64/
Miyamoto confirmed Mario was from Brooklyn back when Mario 64 dropped.
>—I noticed that Mario speaks with an Italian accent in this game.
>Miyamoto: There’s no particularly detailed background or anything, but yeah, it’s a given that Mario is an Italian-American from Brooklyn, New York. That voice was actually done by a professional voice actor. He did Mario’s voice five or six years ago, at a video game event. By the way, Mario talks a lot more in the American version of Mario 64. He says “Okie Dokie!” and more. Peach also speaks. We had more time before the American release, so we improved the game.

>>715458726 (OP)
>>Left ambiguous
this, probably just "the city"

>>715460614
>it’s a given that Mario is an Italian-American from Brooklyn, New York.
How is that a given considering the ending of Yoshi's Island just a year prior?

>>715461135
There's multiple marios is the only explanation

>>715461135
>>715460614
No, as I said Miyamoto didn't think that hard about the backstory or how everything fit together. Mario is just Mario on an adventure, and he isn't going to rescue some mushroom mutant, he's going to rescue a proper lady princess. But then you ahve these two humans out of nowhere.

I think the new team for Oddyessy onwards is attempting to create a coherent backstory fore verything so it all fits together.

>>715460590
It's kind of weird, as Pokemon is also set for October. They could ride those sales through all of the holiday season, but I would still have expected a bigger release at that time. As much as I love Metroid, I'm fully aware Prime 4 won't be their bet for the holidays. Maybe they are expecting Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment to carry the holidays on the Zelda brand?

>>715461135
Because one is a mianline Mario game played and beloved by millions of people, the other is a shovelware handheld game from a different series made by a different dev team.

>>715461369
Miaymoto said he was from Brooklyn he just said no specifics of Mario's origin

>>715461219
>There's multiple marios
Possibly
>Mario's dad fought in Vietnam and is the star of "Mario's Bombs Away"
>This dude who runs a Punch-Out Arcade was a ref during the punch-out games (hence his themed arcade)
>Both are named Mario

>>715460590
>>715461686
Nintendo fucked up by having no good launch games for the Wii U, obviously they don't want to repeat the mistake. You definitely need some triple A games when a console comes out otherwise people will lose the hype.

How do you get new releases on day 1?

I'd never set foot in a Gamestop, of course.

Amazon's "release day delivery guarantee" is more like "a week after maybe".

Best Buy fucked up my account and won't fix it so I can't do in store pickup anymore. It'll always get flagged as fraud because somehow me and some gay nigger in Florida (im Indiana) got our accounts mashed together.

>>715464853
>I'd never step foot in a gamestop

>>715461686
>>715464370
We already know we're getting a Mario 40th Direct sometime in September, and Nate the Hate just basically confirmed a Nintendo Direct or July, so it's gonna be a busy fuckin year.

>>715458726 (OP)
>ICKy kong
>hrmph acatuakly mario bing wahoo is supremely based and not cringe
stfu retard eat your shit

>>715465403
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJkVwt_JJXo

>>715461135
They moved

>>715463123
Yoshi's Island on the SNES? And do literally any of the actual Mario games namedrop Brooklyn? I know about the pipe to the Mushroom Kingdom thing from SMB1, but does it or the original Mario Bros. mention New York specifically?

>>715467541
Exactly, that's the thing-none of the actual mainline games ever explicitly say “Brooklyn” except in ancillary material like manuals, cartoons, or interviews. The idea of Mario being from New York got super reinforced outside the games, especially with the Super Show and the SMB movie (the OG one, not the Illumination one). But in-game? It’s vibes-only.

Yoshi’s Island tried to shoehorn a baby origin, but it contradicts all that urban plumber lore. At this point, Nintendo treats canon like a suggestion-Mario just exists wherever and whenever they need him, and continuity is as flexible as his jump physics.

>>715467660
Manuals used to be very important for a game's story.

>>715467913
>>715467660
That's what I actually meant: the manuals. Do the manuals themselves ever say Brooklyn, New York? Or was it entirely in other licensed media?

>>715468487
Mario Bros 1 manual says he's from Brooklyn.

>>715468698
No it doesn't. In fact, I double checked and the whole "pipe to the Mushroom Kingdom" thing isn't in there, either. Mario just hears about it somehow and there he is.