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Title: Nintendo announces new Yoshi and Mario games for Wii U
Post by: Deezer on January 23, 2013, 03:12:29 PM
New Yoshi, 3D Mario, and Mario Kart games for Wii U were announced during today's Nintendo Direct webcast.

Good-Feel, the developer of Wario Land: Shake It! (http://themushroomkingdom.net/games/wlsi) and Kirby's Epic Yarn, is giving the "epic yarn" treatment to Yoshi's world for the dinosaur's first solo platforming adventure since Yoshi's Story (http://themushroomkingdom.net/games/ystory). The webcast included a few seconds of game footage that featured Yoshi and Shy Guys made of yarn.

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata also revealed that the team behind the Mario Galaxy series and Super Mario 3D Land are developing the new Mario 3D action game.

No footage for the new 3D Mario or Mario Kart games was shown, but Iwata said that both will be playable at this year's E3.

Link: http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct/archive/01-23-2013/ (http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct/archive/01-23-2013/)
Title: Re: Nintendo announces new Yoshi and Mario games for Wii U
Post by: Weegee on January 23, 2013, 05:01:22 PM
I'm moderately excited for Super Linear Land.

As for Yoshi, I guess this (http://www.gameranx.com/img/12-Nov/wiiu-2.jpg) had some truth to it after all.
Title: Re: Nintendo announces new Yoshi and Mario games for Wii U
Post by: BP on January 23, 2013, 05:07:07 PM
The same team made the Galaxies and 3D Land??

I never ever would have guessed.
Title: Re: Nintendo announces new Yoshi and Mario games for Wii U
Post by: The Chef on January 23, 2013, 06:49:25 PM
The new Yoshi looks like Little Big Planet. I also want that yarn Yoshi to be a real doll.

I wager the next new Mario will be Super Mario Galaxy 3, if not Super Mario 3D Land 2.
Title: Re: Nintendo announces new Yoshi and Mario games for Wii U
Post by: Doormat on January 23, 2013, 07:21:45 PM
Super Mario Sunshine 2, anyone?

...Eh, probably not, sadly.
Title: Re: Nintendo announces new Yoshi and Mario games for Wii U
Post by: Bigluigifan1.0 on January 23, 2013, 07:25:26 PM
This is just me, but I highly doubt the "all new 3D Mario" is going to be remotely related to Galaxy or 3D Land. It'd be a complete waste to push for a sequel to either on a brand new system. Really exciting stuff, all the same.

That Yoshi game is suspiciously similar to Epic Yarn (understandably, duuuuuhhh), but if any other franchise would take the torch from Kirby, it would have to be Yoshi. Given the bizarre, colorful, arts-and-crafts style that are Yoshi platformers, a yarn-based game actually makes plenty of sense.
Title: Re: Nintendo announces new Yoshi and Mario games for Wii U
Post by: BP on January 23, 2013, 07:26:02 PM
3D Land's engine and way of handling powerups + Sunshine's world sizes and nonlinearity + Mario 64's style of star missions = my dream Mario game
Title: Re: Nintendo announces new Yoshi and Mario games for Wii U
Post by: ShadowBrain on January 23, 2013, 07:39:21 PM
New
Lol.

BP's got a plan, though.
Title: Re: Nintendo announces new Yoshi and Mario games for Wii U
Post by: Ym9iYnlzcTEzMzc equalsign on January 23, 2013, 07:41:18 PM
3D Land's engine and way of handling powerups + Sunshine's world sizes and nonlinearity + Mario 64's style of star missions = my dream Mario game
You forgot Galaxy's hub style. And a 3D remake of the entire original game after you beat the game.
Title: Re: Nintendo announces new Yoshi and Mario games for Wii U
Post by: Weegee on January 23, 2013, 08:07:16 PM
Isle Delfino blows SMG's hub out of the water, son.
Title: Re: Nintendo announces new Yoshi and Mario games for Wii U
Post by: BP on January 23, 2013, 08:31:58 PM
Comet Observatory was pretty cool. But I think Peach's Castle wins my favor for the discovery factor. The first time through, as soon as you had enough stars to do so, taking on a Bowser level gained immediate priority. Doing that meant a new floor to look around. Delfino Plaza gets points for more or less being a world, though.
Title: Re: Nintendo announces new Yoshi and Mario games for Wii U
Post by: Weegee on January 23, 2013, 09:13:20 PM
Peach's Castle might be my favourite if not for the feeling of emptiness. The occasional immobile Toad isn't quite enough to keep the whole place from feeling eerie at times.
Title: Re: Nintendo announces new Yoshi and Mario games for Wii U
Post by: The Chef on January 23, 2013, 11:33:16 PM
3D Land's engine and way of handling powerups + Sunshine's world sizes and nonlinearity + Mario 64's style of star missions = my dream Mario game

I agree with this, more or less. I also think Mario should get a new flying power-up in this game. Personally I think it should be a jet pack. It could serve the same purposes FLUDD did (Hover Nozzle, Rocket Nozzle, Turbo Nozzle), just without having to refill it or use it to wash stuff off. It could also be used to fly like the Wing Cap via Banjo-style launch pads.
Title: Re: Nintendo announces new Yoshi and Mario games for Wii U
Post by: Kimimaru on January 24, 2013, 01:28:15 PM
I was hoping for a 3D Yoshi's Island-style game, but this one looks all right. I just don't like the yarn art style, but I'll judge it fairly once I see more of the game.
Title: Re: Nintendo announces new Yoshi and Mario games for Wii U
Post by: BP on January 24, 2013, 03:35:31 PM
I'll be honest, I put my hopes for a good Yoshi game away again pretty much instantly. No, it's not fair. But with the way no successor has even come close to Yoshi's Island, and with how [adjective] Shake It and Kirby's Yarn were, it does make sense to have low expectations...
Title: Re: Nintendo announces new Yoshi and Mario games for Wii U
Post by: Toad on January 24, 2013, 04:02:29 PM
I'm not a huge fan of the art-style, or how the game looks right now. It keeps saying Yoshi's Story in Epic Yarn style.. Yarn style is not a bad thing, but more Yoshi's Story might be..

I'll judge more fairly when I see more of the game too.
Title: Re: Nintendo announces new Yoshi and Mario games for Wii U
Post by: Weegee on January 24, 2013, 05:03:09 PM
Agreeing with BP; I expect mediocrity.
Title: Re: Nintendo announces new Yoshi and Mario games for Wii U
Post by: CrossEyed7 on January 24, 2013, 05:36:57 PM
I haven't played much of Epic Yarn yet, but from the little I played, it seemed to do a pretty good job of channeling the spirit of Yoshi's Story (which is a better game than most people give it credit for). There's definitely potential here, and not being a direct sequel could help mitigate some of the Yoshi's Island DS effect (something I'm still worried about for Dark Moon).
Title: Re: Nintendo announces new Yoshi and Mario games for Wii U
Post by: BP on January 24, 2013, 09:35:41 PM
Sure YS is better than most people give it credit for. It's not a bad game. The problem is YI is spectacular. How do you do something so flawlessly once and fail to even repeat that success on multiple attempts, let alone surpass it?

So sure, Yarn Yoshi might be a good game too, but... I think it's rational to expect little of it.