Iwata Explains Mario Galaxy

The British Gaming Blog has links to articles on the official UK Wii site exploring the title Mario Galaxy . The first explores the game's origins and gives us a peek behind the scenes of the game's voice acting. The second looks at Mario's essence, and the benefits of the 'planetary gameplay'. The last is all about the sound of Mario: "This time, we recorded with an orchestra of about 50 or so members. Of course, they were not very good at first because they were playing music they'd never heard before, and they are also seeing the score for the first time. But as the day went on, their performance improved dramatically, and the process of recording each track in its final form was actually a very fast one. This surprised Miyamoto-san, who was glued to the glass wall looking at them from the other side. He was saying 'So, sound is something that really changes too!'"

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Re:Does it bother anyone...

[CopaceticOpus]

Don't think Mario is offensive? Consider these points:

• Mario is a plumber. It's a well known fact that well over half of the homes in Italy have indoor plumbing, hence the need for many plumbers. As they say in Rome, "Hey look! It's yet another Italian plumber!"
• The castle clearly symbolizes the Vatican, and the search for the princess is the Italians' search for God. When the game declares that "the princess is in another castle," it is a kick to the nuts of the Catholic church.
  
• It is unfair to characterize all Italians as abusive to turtles, because of the deplorable actions of one Antonio Compagnoni. He left stomped, crushed turtles across the Italian countryside for five months in the summer of 1977 before police finally caught up with him.