One of the information booths was on an island, which you could only get to by taxi (????). Can you think of how much that would suck if you didn't have a taxi token? What if that was the last place you had to go to, and you couldn't go because you used all your tokens travelling around town?
Worse yet, what if you used your last taxi token to GET there and got stuck there? And saved your game? Now that's really getting sent to Alcatraz! Plus, remember that if you answer a question wrong, you have to leave the screen to try again, which means you need TWO MORE taxi tokens to retry. Yikes. I have to wonder if there was supposed to be some other mode of transportation we're not finding, since the game seems like it shouldn't be that broken.
And I don't think it actually had a plot, I think they were just walking in the snow, and then Mario fell in a pit, and then Luigi went into the castle. NO DIALOGUE WHATSOEVER, JUST FIGURE IT OUT BY YOURSELF
Don't forget Luigi saying "Glad you could drop in." Get it? DROP in? Although it's weird how that version turns the story around so that Mario's the one who's fallen behind and Luigi's the one who has his act together.
The info booths in Africa are run by monkeys
I think that was supposed to be Donkey Kong, considering that Peach and Toad were in the other booths in that video of the Nairobi level.
So wait, wouldn't there have to be two more Mario characters hosting the landmarks in the cities with 5 of them? Could one of them be WARIO? oh I hope I hope I hope
I go by the Super Mario Bros Movie canon, where they were born and grew up in Brookyln and stumbled into the Mushroom Kingdom through a MYSTEEEERIOUS sewer pipe.
...But, uh, then there's Yoshi's Island. NINTENDO ISN'T GOOD AT KEEPING ITS CANON STRAIGHT
And Nintendo got away with that retcon because they didn't specifically mention New York in any of the previous games that were produced specifically by Nintendo!
...Why is Bowser even implementing this incredibly poorly-thought-out plan? Does he just hate penguins, or something?
My guess is that he's getting revenge on the Mario brothers for liberating the Mushroom World by flooding their own world. That is, in the continuity where the Mario brothers are still from the real world.
...Heyyyyy, some of these quiz questions aren't in the pamphlets! :O
Yeah, that's because some of the answers can only be found by asking the wandering citizens about your treasures. Often only one of the five people has the one answer you need... So frustrating! So time-consuming!
Wait, so why was the cactus thing keeping Mario from using the pipe?
Somebody watched the demo to Super Mario World and fell in love with the image of Yoshi eating the Pokey?
I just wonder why the SNES version has the Pokey pop in and out of the pipe when a Piranha Plant would have been more fitting.
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Worse yet, what if you used your last taxi token to GET there and got stuck there? And saved your game? Now that's really getting sent to Alcatraz! Plus, remember that if you answer a question wrong, you have to leave the screen to try again, which means you need TWO MORE taxi tokens to retry. Yikes. I have to wonder if there was supposed to be some other mode of transportation we're not finding, since the game seems like it shouldn't be that broken.
And I don't think it actually had a plot, I think they were just walking in the snow, and then Mario fell in a pit, and then Luigi went into the castle. NO DIALOGUE WHATSOEVER, JUST FIGURE IT OUT BY YOURSELF
Don't forget Luigi saying "Glad you could drop in." Get it? DROP in? Although it's weird how that version turns the story around so that Mario's the one who's fallen behind and Luigi's the one who has his act together.
The info booths in Africa are run by monkeys
I think that was supposed to be Donkey Kong, considering that Peach and Toad were in the other booths in that video of the Nairobi level.
So wait, wouldn't there have to be two more Mario characters hosting the landmarks in the cities with 5 of them? Could one of them be WARIO? oh I hope I hope I hope
I go by the Super Mario Bros Movie canon, where they were born and grew up in Brookyln and stumbled into the Mushroom Kingdom through a MYSTEEEERIOUS sewer pipe. ...But, uh, then there's Yoshi's Island. NINTENDO ISN'T GOOD AT KEEPING ITS CANON STRAIGHT
And Nintendo got away with that retcon because they didn't specifically mention New York in any of the previous games that were produced specifically by Nintendo!
...Why is Bowser even implementing this incredibly poorly-thought-out plan? Does he just hate penguins, or something?
My guess is that he's getting revenge on the Mario brothers for liberating the Mushroom World by flooding their own world. That is, in the continuity where the Mario brothers are still from the real world.
...Heyyyyy, some of these quiz questions aren't in the pamphlets! :O
Yeah, that's because some of the answers can only be found by asking the wandering citizens about your treasures. Often only one of the five people has the one answer you need... So frustrating! So time-consuming!
Wait, so why was the cactus thing keeping Mario from using the pipe?
Somebody watched the demo to Super Mario World and fell in love with the image of Yoshi eating the Pokey?
I just wonder why the SNES version has the Pokey pop in and out of the pipe when a Piranha Plant would have been more fitting.