| melbye said: Nintendo seems a little bit unwilling to make 3D plattformers outside of Mario. Both Galaxy 2 and Odyssey shows that a 3D Yoshi could work so i wish they tried |
Have you played Super Mario 64 on the DS? Yoshi is fully playable, in fact he's the only playable character to start! Yoshi could work in 3D pretty easily really. I just think Nintendo won't give him a standalone game because if it's going to play exactly like Mario, they probably figure why not just make it a Mario game?
Nintendo's philosophy on new characters is that they don't create new characters or even use the less commonly used ones they already have if they already have more recognizable characters that would fit the gameplay. That's why Mario has explored just about every genre out there. It's why Kirby's Epic Yarn was a Kirby game instead of being a new IP with Prince Fluff as the main character. It's why Peach didn't get a normal platformer and got a game where she uses her emotions to fight (Sexist? Maybe. But Mario definitely doesn't fit this gameplay). It's why we don't have a Waluigi game yet, Wario basically fulfills any role Waluigi could that Mario can't. Peach fills most roles that Daisy could, so we see more of her than of Daisy and Daisy will probably never get her own game (no matter how much I want a "Daisy saves Luigi" game).
Yoshi games have Yoshi because dedicated Yoshi games all have a cute aesthetic that wouldn't make sense for Mario. Saving babies? A world where everyone and everything is made of yarn? A popup storybook about eating fruit and living in paradise? These game concepts make more sense for a cute dinosaur, not a 30 something plumber. If Yoshi gets a 3D game, it will be 3D Yoshi's Island, 3D Yoshi's Story, 3D Woolly World, or some other hyperadorable concept, not "3D Mario but with Yoshi just because".
This philosophy frustrates fans of Mario's side characters, but the advantage is that Nintendo has avoided the "too many characters" problem that Sonic the Hedgehog has, even though there are as many official Mario characters as Sonic characters.
