| nuckles87 said: Yes. Mario has always been "kiddy" and always should be. That's his world. Cartoony, candy coated and brightly colored. The only reason why past games had more muted colors was because of the limitations of the technology. If you look at concept art from the time, Mario has always been a very colorful, cartoony world. As a Sonic fan, I can say from experience that you should be happy that Mario has never "grown up". Sonic tried it. It was a disaster. Killed an entire franchise with just two games. Frankly, I've never been able to look at Sonic quite the same way again. I'd say Mario's issue isn't that it's "kiddy". It's that the art style is bland and boring, and Nintendo has been doing its best to keep it that way. I don't want to ever see a more mature Mario. That being said, I wouldn't mind seeing a Mario that tried something different in the visuals department, ala Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. Which, by the way, used the FX trip to produce some marvelously beautiful "kiddy" visuals: http://i2.listal.com/image/239305/600full-super-mario-world-2%3A-yoshi%27s-island-screenshot.jpg |
@bold. I'd like you to offer examples please.
@grown up killing the franchise. I'm looking for excellence, i.e. the ability to appeal to both children and adults at once. It's difficult but Nintendo should be able to pull it off, after all they are the sales leaders of the industry. However it is my opinion that Sony has been doing a better job in this department, despite the difficulty of branding a new IP to a platform which targets an older audience.
@bland. Well, that's what I mean, it's not appealing to adults because it feels lazy from an artistic point of view. That's exactly what I'm talking about see my convo with Nintendopie.
Yoshi's Island screams of creativity, and so just for that effort I wouldn't call it kiddy. Of course if the themes were too unbalanced in certain colors that only appeal to kids it would eskew the verdict but in the end the kiddiness was tamed and the creativity was all but unnoticeable. Good example.
