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INTEREST: Super Mario Odyssey Director Confirms Mario is Human Despite 'Different' Appearance


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belvadeer





PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 12:17 pm Reply with quote
Of course Mario's human. He's just proportioned differently from typical humans. Art style and all, you know.
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cloud8100



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 1:04 pm Reply with quote
People were questioning this...?
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PsychoPearl



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 1:21 pm Reply with quote
It'd be weird if Mario was proportioned realistically.
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belvadeer





PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 1:25 pm Reply with quote
cloud8100 wrote:
People were questioning this...?


Apparently so. It's a really trivial thing to bring up.

PsychoPearl wrote:
It'd be weird if Mario was proportioned realistically.


It certainly wouldn't lend itself well to the art style, that's for sure.
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Mr. Oshawott



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 1:44 pm Reply with quote
Of course Mario is human. He just sports a unique appearance that makes him special from the norm. Cool
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 1:52 pm Reply with quote
PsychoPearl wrote:
It'd be weird if Mario was proportioned realistically.
unless you count the live action Marios from the cartoon and the movie
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ARC-1300



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 2:01 pm Reply with quote
Question is, why can't they scale the humans down to his size? Or would that of been more jarring?
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 2:01 pm Reply with quote
I suspect this is all a deliberate act of misinformation, designed to conceal revelations not suitable for Nintendo to publicly disclose.

In fact, it would not surprise me if the game designer responsible for these comments was donning a suspicious moustache and red cap during the interview...
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Raikuro



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 2:21 pm Reply with quote
Unless it's some big plot twist or something, it just looks like an entirely different game mashed together with Mario. New Donk City residents should at least be proportioned like Peach/Daisy/Rosalina, and it's weird that the T-rex looks so realistic in the same game as other reptiles like Bowser or Yoshi.
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EricJ2



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 2:47 pm Reply with quote
belvadeer wrote:
Of course Mario's human. He's just proportioned differently from typical humans.


Just like Bob Hoskins. Smile
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mooseV01



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 3:08 pm Reply with quote
It's Mario. It's not meant to be taken seriously.
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Haterater



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 3:09 pm Reply with quote
Just cartoony in a realistic-type world, no biggie. I treat it like Roger Rabbit and other media of that type.
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ParaChomp



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 3:37 pm Reply with quote
He just hasn't eaten any of Donkey Kong's bananas. But hey, that's just a theory. A Game Theory. Thanks for watching.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 3:54 pm Reply with quote
ARC-1300 wrote:
Question is, why can't they scale the humans down to his size? Or would that of been more jarring?


I've always taken it that Mario is really short to begin with.

I never even batted an eye at people in New Donk City being so much taller than him.
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belvadeer





PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 7:06 pm Reply with quote
Revolutionary wrote:
I've always taken it that Mario is really short to begin with.

I never even batted an eye at people in New Donk City being so much taller than him.


Well said. It's like putting Mario next to Lightning from FFXIII and expecting that to somehow look normal when it's not actually a big deal.
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