How Mario Games Got Weird Again 

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we've gone from "its so over.." to "WERE SOO BACK" so abruptly

The rejuvenation of Mario’s creativity is like going from a slum to a 5 star estate

the new mario and luigi game having the devs of the previous games does show how much theyve developed

Wario Land deserves a comeback

I think the executives at Nintendo realized they don’t need to have EVERY single Mario game be marketable for plushies. They can just make Mario go into LSD worlds and people will still buy plushies, even if Princess Gwimble of the Honey Donut Kingdom doesn’t get a plushie.

10:41 I don't think that's fair to the Superstar Saga remake. Yes, the artsyle isn't the same as the original, but it looks so good in its own right and even has lighting effects which weren't present on the GBA. Though I will admit that the original Bowser's Inside Story looks better than in the remake.

I still would've loved if the new M&L game had gone full into entirely hand drawn graphics, really embrace the series' iconic 2D art style. But I'm just glad we're getting a new M&L game period

1:52 Fun Fact: This game did start off early on as a Mario game before becoming Doki Doki Panic.

It feels great to see Mario is back to being creative again. Whether it was thanks to Mario Wonder or Odyssey, I'm just happy that we have the era of Mario that made it what it was in the first place.

Miyamoto is greatly in shape, AFTER MORE THAN 40 YEARS

Ive gotten so excited for every single one of the new games, like jamboree, wonder, the mario rpg, thousand year door, and especially the new entry to mario and luigi, that im super excited for whats upcoming

Welcome back Mario and Luigi I miss u.

I don’t know why, but watching this made me emotional lol. Once he started listing all the more recent high points like all the RPGs coming back, I wanted to start cheering and applauding, like “you did it Nintendo, you got this”

0:12 “All this time,” IS an explanation for why it looks good. Getting one after years after the closure of the original series developer, late in the console’s lifespan and within a year of remakes of two other classic Mario games of the same genre within a single year is what’s weirder about Brothership.

When I first saw the Mario Wonder trailer in my recommended, I was so sure it had to be a spinoff. It's like 2D Mario, but with some kind of "Wonder" gimmick to make it a fun side adventure to compliment the usual format. When I watched the trailer and had the realization that no, this is actually a brand new main series 2D Mario game with its own full identity for the first time since New Super Mario Bros. and with an insane new gimmick with the Wonder Flower, I was over the moon. Although I've gotten accustomed to it now, first playing the game and seeing all those changes to the animation, music, level design and environments on top of charming little additions as simple as the drumroll on the ground pound, it felt like an absolute fever dream. It was the most refreshing thing ever after nothing but New Super Mario Bros. for literally my entire gaming life.

I damaged my lungs whenever I saw the new Mario and Luigi because I shouted to hard

The amount of charm we’ve gotten from recent games only makes me fear that someday we’ll get another period in gaming like the 2010s

I'm honestly surprised that the Mario and Luigi franchise is getting a second chance at life in general. I thought that this series was buried and forgotten after AlphaDream went under. The fact that it's getting a sequel, and it looks amazing, and the franchise is fully 3D for the first time is so exciting.

Mario RPG coming back is the crazyer addition

4:04 Hey plumber boy, moustache man, your worst nightmare has arrived.

Can you imagine the hype behind a legit Mario and Sonic crossover? It would be insane. (Not including Smash or the Olympics games no one cares about)

If I see "Mario is Missing" referenced I have to give a thumbs up. Anyone who suffered through renting that game for the weekend as a kid knows the pain that game inflicted.

yet I never seen mario plumbing in games

Something else I’d like to point out is that sparks of hope (the sequel to Mario+Rabbids) Completely innovated on what the first game. I loved the first game so much and sparks of hope came in, destroyed it all, and reinvented it in way that I enjoyed more. Absolutely amazing game, would recommend.

I thank Miyamoto for working on the movie. Maybe that made him release the strange hold he had with the series saying "no new characters in Paper Mario", which could be translated to "keep it safe, guys"

16:30 At least we got Banjo-Kazooie back on Switch. If you’re like me and like to imagine that series is still a part of the official Mario universe.

The irony of this being uploaded right as Mario + Rabbids’ director left Ubisoft isn’t lost on me.

You sound kind of like Garfield ngl 😂

Galaxy 2 is GOATED

Theres a theory that the success of the movie from last year had something to do with it. Notice all of the new games discussed are post-movie?

I got sentient sometime around 3d land release and I was so confused why the internet was negative towards what I think is the coolest looking game ever

I feel like you can do a great norm macdonald impression. Great video btw!

I believe Good-Feel is likely behind Brothership judging by how Luigi's model looks very similar to the one they designed for Dream Teams Giant Battles.

7:40 ik you kinda acknowledged it but how does 3d world fit this video? It has some of the most creative ideas in any Mario game and they’re constantly being thrown at you. Even the playable characters are unique with peach and Rosalina who were almost always unplayable in mainline games

As someone who grew up with the late 2000s-2017 Mario I’m so happy the old Mario is back

Now we just need to get Ashley, Mona, and Captain Syrup in Mario Kart.

DK being MIA and the Sports games barring Aces having a severe lack of content are probably the main problems with Mario in the Switch era.

Man you've got the voice of a narrator. Great video!

I agree with most of what you said, but galaxy 2 is not as bad as you make it out to be. I actually like galaxy 2 more than 1.

I wouldn't actually call Mario games "weird", per say. I'd imagine cartoony, innovative, and unpredictable in a good way at times. Like, in a place like the Mushroom Kingdom, it's a new adventure, you don't know what to expect. But, we've all have a consensus that the "New" era was a drag, creative-wise. The same old, same old assets bled through into the games, and lost it's pizazz. It's about time Nintendo noticed.

Hard disagree on most of the Mario and Luigi stuff Edit: what Im referring to is that the later M&L games are all still really great. They're just not AS great as they could have been. Even Paper Jam is still a super solid game. And he makes it sound like remaking superstar saga was some lazy choice, but I think it was the best move given the limitations they were put under.

This is the first video I ever watched form u. And I could not get Garfield out of my head.

Yeah I’m glad the Mario Franchise nowadays is mostly experimental again like the 2000s, being a Mario fan in 2010-2016 was kinda boring in a way with how bland and sterilized most of the games were besides some. All we need now is a new Mario kart game, new 3D Mario game and for the sports games to be good again and the Mario franchise is set for life! 😎

Always glad to know Norm Macdonald is as big of a fan of the Mario games as I am!

Another great video from you, it's always nice to hear you analyze and discuss things of this nature. Mario's back on track, and we're all better for it. I'm admittedly not sure how much you could do with this suggestion, but I figure I can throw it out there anyway, since I think it would make for a good discussion. It's been over a year since the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and from what I've been able to see, there's a growing schism between fans who want the Wild era and its trends to continue versus the fans who want Zelda to head back to more traditional territory. I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts about it, as well as what you'd like to see in a new 3D Zelda.

10:57 I’m pretty sure it was Alphadream’s decision to remake Inside Story, not Nintendo’s. Alphadream were on the brink of bankruptcy so in a last ditch attempt for some cash, they remade Inside Story because they thought it would guarantee some extra money as it was the fan favourite. This is also probably the reason they skipped over remaking Partners in Time. Even though it was the next game chronologically, it just didn't have the same universal praise that Inside Story did, making it risky as that quick cash flow they wanted wouldn't be guaranteed with a less popular game.

This was a great video. Not much else to say, you summed up everything pretty nicely. Hopefully this creative era for Mario is here to stay.

12:54 missed oportunity to say switched

The movie gave Mario a lot of momentum, and I think Nintendo was smart for turning up the weird to make they captured the attention of the new generation who saw the movie with their parents. Glad they're being clever again!

Nature is healing.

When Origami King and Paper Jam came out, it felt like two of my favorite games ever had died. Sure Origami king was "good" but, well, Super Paper Mario and below weren't JUST "good". Alpha Dream died, and with it my hopes for a return to my beloved RPG serieses. I was baffled, when at first I thought that "If they're dead, at least Super Mario RPG has been revived for new people and maybe that can forge the way for a new future of Mario RPGs." But no, it didn't pave the way for a new future, it paved the way for the past, present, and future alike. A new Mario and Luigi, the Fan requested TTYD remake (to the quality they had hoped for), and Mario RPG, all sitting next to each other. Every time I look at it it makes me want to cry tears of joy.

I wonder what’s next for Mario in the Next Era

While I agree Mario Kart 8 was mostly a break from the norm during the era (and most definitely a very good one) it also suffered from the homogenization, just in a way, way more subtle way, like the Yoshi helicopter in Yoshi Circuit getting replaced by a normal helicopter or Cheese Land changing setting from the moon but made of cheese, to a cheese themed desert, it was little details like those

First video of yours I’ve watched, it’s a good one, although all I can think of is that you sound like Garfield

I'm just hoping Super Paper Mario makes a return. Sure, its different from the first 2 games, but Its still a great game with a Killer story And maybe also a New, Massive Punch-out game Featuring Characters from Wii, SPO or even the arcade games! And there's also room for Existing Nintendo Characters to make an appearance like DK did in Wii's Last stand! There's just so much possibility with this new era! The newest games like Wonder, Party Superstars and TTYD remake, there just seems to be no limit on how the original concepts would be refined!

Great video. Love your voice. I never considered that all three of Mario's RPGs are revived for Switch- that is crazy indeed!

What i find actually weird is, i played the thousand year door remake and saw the toads speaking of themselves as humans, same with the intro i think

I can't wait to see a Paper Mario game in this environment.

I really don't understand why the M&L remakes are always grouped with the Wii U era sections of videos like this when they came out during the Switch era, and while they were on the 3DS and sadly had their drawbacks from the financial struggles of AlphaDream, I really don't think they're the blemish in Mario's history that they're usually framed as. I was over the moon in 2017 when Superstar Saga was coming back, one of my favorite Mario RPGs returning was just as huge to me as Odyssey. 2015 Nintendo would have never. Superstar Saga is one of the weirdest Mario games in history, so is Bowser's Inside Story. The fact that they were able to come back with a modern coat of paint at all is indicative of the shift toward embracing the less conventional side of the Mario series imo. It's just a shame they flopped due to AlphaDream lacking the budget to make them Switch games or reuse less assets. But for what they were they are absolutely part of the Switch's renaissance rather than the Wii U's safeness.

Is it a stretch to call the sterilization era Mario's little dark age?

0:32 hate to judge ya on this, but Mario RPG is DEFINITELY not modern. It’s a remake

I also hope that all More imp Characters will get more Games for themselves in the Future.

I know they’re hated, but… I love the NSMB games. All of them. (Of course I love the more unique ones as well)

Hard work to believe Nintendo finally broke away from soup

I'm not a fan of wonder but i like that they are being creative and innovative.

It’s cuz I started playing them.

Good video, thanks, audio gets a little distorted at higher volumes though.

As I said in a Discord server "Thanks to the Mario movie, The RPGS don't have to suck anymore.

Sarsaland and Teaches Typing returns? Sidenote: this feels like seeing a famous 80's avant-prog band gradually shift to a stale pop rock group before hitting hard by making an album reminiscent of their even more aggressive early 70's years.

start of 2022: Two Mario RPGs on Switch (not counting NSO) *blinks* end of 2024: Six Mario RPGs on Switch

6:50 this doesn't seem fair to Galaxy 2. The entire point of the ending of Galaxy 1 was that the universe had been reset, and Bowser's plan was altered just slightly so that in the new timeline, those events wouldn't happen again. Galaxy 2 is quite literally what happens instead of the first game in the current timeline, and it's clear only Mario and Rosalina survive and remember the first game because the Lumas protected them.

If Mario used to be Nintendo's avant-garde up until galaxy 1, I guess we can call this Nintendo's neo-avant-garde

Just wanna point out that mp superstar was an incredibly safe game and that's why it worked in the same way that Mario bros wii worked so it's weird to call over positively by saying it returned to its roots when that's exactly what the other did

now it’s my mom’s time to say “are the developers on drugs?”

easy: designers got a new supplier of mushrooms

Omg i cant wait for m&l brothership

Great retrospective, the future is looking bright.

Is it just me or does 16:20 3D all stars sound off. This video is really good though and a great retrospective on Mario.

Some may call it weird,but I say they got creative again.

Paper Mario The Origami King didn't work that well but it was an absolute blast to play

I’m really hoping to see a Super Paper Mario port to Switch or the next gen console.

Honestly.. these last years have been the time where I've bought and Played the least amount of Mario games in my entire life, and it is not for lack of time or money. Remakes to games I've already played aside, they've done nothing particularly interesting or new. A few visual upgrades and gimmicky gameplay additions are not enough for me to care.

So far this decade, the Mario franchise has enjoyed a Renaissance at the cost of the quality of their spin-off sports titles (Tennis Aces notwithstanding).

Where did you find the font for the chapter titles?

Did he still never made a Shantae for Smash Moveset video?

Hey! Mario is Missing was fun! But you do kinda have a point.

Great video! Just arrived into this delicious channel.

I’m pretty sure Mario and Luigi brothership was developed by Betadream

I hope we get a new Wario land game in this era

I think that Nintendo’s and SEGA’s (when they try) absurdity with their games is what makes them so good and stand out from the cesspool of fps and rpgs we’ve been drowned with in the last decade

we need another mario sunshine

i feel like those mario and luigi remakes should have been on the switch

19:17 what is the song called?

2:31 Ah, so you must see what I mean if you included a clip, above a certain point it becomes impossible to understand what it is trying to display, becoming little more than a mess of pixels, it's quite an achievement they managed to do it at all, but it's completely unplayable at least for me personally, I'm not very good at comprehension of visual things and the illusion of 3d graphics in games in general has never been very effective, but a very pixelated version of this illusion is even worse. I frankly think it would have been better for some people if they just did it from a top-down view.

Waluigi should have his own game.

I'd like to think it's a mix of both Nintendo pandering to casuals and wanting to prioritize merchandise sales over anything else. Whenever a franchise becomes big enough, the merchandise sales are prioritized first and foremost over the actual product the merch is made for, and the quality ends up plummeting as a result. This is very evident with Pokemon and Sonic, and Mario fell into that trap for quite some time. It does feel Mario is going in the right direction though, especially since Nintendo's main competitors are starting to stagnate themselves with "games" that prioritize graphics over gameplay and are little more than overglorified, overpriced, and overly long CGI movies that make you wonder why Pixar and Dreamworks aren't doing the same.

3d land and Mario kart 7 are still goat

honestly mario wonder is cool and all, but i hate playing it because you cannot pick up the players and throw them around. also the camera mechanic that it focuses on one person has only stopped me from playing it with friends

I’m still always gonna be more impressed with Paper Mario’s remake to Mario and Luigi’s comeback. Just because Mario and Luigi always had the chance to return, but I assumed Nintendo was gonna be bull headed in how they approached Paper Mario. Here’s hoping they can both coexist as RPGs again, and that Paper Mario can retain what works from both the modern era and the classic titles. Also, DK has been pretty dormant, but everyone pretty much knows about the Donkey Kong Freedom game that was cancelled. Yoshi… is weird, those games I swear just materialize since they just happen whenever. But where is a Woolly World Switch port? And speaking of where- Where the heck is Wario Land? Ware is cool, but Land has been MIA for so long. But all this aside, I’m happy for the future of Mario. The next 3D game is an exciting prospect, we’re back to not knowing what 2D Mario will do, a new Mario Kart sounds good, Mario RPGs are in a hopeful spot (even if TTYD still concerns me if they’ll backpedal after it), I’m pretty confident DK will return in full force on the next console, and in general Mario is weird and fun again. …And Yoshi’s still just gonna continue to happen at random points. No disrespect to Yoshi or his series’ fans, the Yoshi games just kinda never get big talk or hype from what I hear. And who knows where other secondary characters will go, Luigi getting more Mansion titles aside.