Nintendo Enthusiast:
The Mario formula is starting to see repetition too often. Even 2D Mario games need to slowly evolve. Is adding a better story one of the ways Nintendo should seek to improve or is it a bad idea?
Mario Kart DS still plays a fine game of handheld Mario Kart more than 20 years after its initial release.
I really liked the Mission Mode. They had you doing crazy stuff like driving backwards, or collecting all the collectibles as quick as you can between a litter of enemies.
They should add it to Mario Kart 9 for sure, along w online leaderboards for the mission stuff. That's how they could expand on the already excellent Mario Kart 8, bc track quality it's hard to imagine them getting much better beyond slightly tighter graphics and 4k on the Switch 2. Maybe more Diddy Kong Racing-esque adventure layout w more emphasis on boats and planes.
It's hard to say that Mario Kart DS is the best "handheld Mario Kart" though, bc Mario Kart 8 is handheld. It's definitely got some uniqueness that I appreciated. The 2 merged together would be amazing.
Mario Kart Double Dash, MKDS and Super Mario Kart are the only three that are actually fun to play. Sure MK8 is pretty but its just that. It lacks the soul of double dash. the DS one controls really really well and the orignial with the feather power up is cool.
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A modded PSP is awesome, I used to play games like the original Marvel vs Capcom and even the original Doom on it.
As a platformer, Mario's Save the Princess Storyline works fine. No need for one to really pop. They sort of started adding more story to Sunshine and Galaxy and it didn't do anything to improve the game. Sunshine was ok, but Galaxy was amazing. And that is were Mario platformers always shine...in the gameplay.
But that isn't to say Mario doesn't have story. The Mario and Luigi games are brilliant and always full of funny and charming dialog and tales. They are great in story.
Paper Mario games have too a great story line and the games build on a pretty deep basis.
Then of course Mario RPG...which is just a classic.
Save the princess is a classical storyline that's practically programmed into human psychology.
Short answer: No, it depends on the type of game you're playing and Mario games are traditionally light, jump in and play pieces of fun, I can't ever see a reason why the core Mario games at least would need a deep, absorbing storyline.
I've got a good idea.
Mario meets a silver colored doppelganger from another time period who believes he is the "Iblis Trigger." In the midst of all of this, instead of Peach, he falls in love with a hedgehog princess.
You can see where I'm going with this. Intensifying the story doesn't always lead to good results. Another example of this is Kingdom Hearts' spinoff games.
That said the other side can technically work and there is a number of Mario RPG games (Paper Mario, Mario & Luigi) that prove it.
Not if it negatively impacts the rest of the game. To be honest it's Mario, we aren't expecting a grand sweeping narrative.