Sneaking Stories Past Miyamoto

Chris Kohler, editor over at Game|Life, has up a great interview with Super Mario Galaxy director Yoshiaki Koizumi. They discuss the development of the Mario and Zelda games, clarifying Shigeru Miyamoto's tense relationship with stories (and sentences), and discussing the lineage of the Mario titles: "In terms of spiritual successors, I've never found that to be the case. Whereas with the Zelda series, each game seems to follow pretty closely from the last with a few stylistic deviations. But Galaxy really feels like it went back to earlier roots with Super Mario Bros., in terms of trying to find that same tempo, that same feel. But for me, it's a matter of thinking what to do with each next step. There's nothing you really throw away. You think about these ideas and refine them constantly with every iteration of a game series. So for all the camera problems that you may have found in Mario 64 and Sunshine, even though we didn't realize how to fix those problems then, those solutions presented themselves over time and found their way into this game. I feel like you really can't have Galaxy without all of the things we learned from Sunshine."

Comments

Tutorial

[Philotic]

Hold the A button to walk softly. If Miyamoto detects you he will send his guards. Be careful!

Re:Tutorial

[CastrTroy]

Don't worry if the guards come, you can just jump on their heads.

Re:Tutorial

[7Prime]

Please tell me you've seen the videos of Snake talking about various Smash Bros characters. I especially love his lude remarks about Samus's Zero Suit, or his reactions to Wario's farts. I'm just thrilled to see that Kojima has allowed Sakuria to turn his hard-boiled character into one big joke:

http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/stages/stage13.html

After defeating the guards...

[Joe Random]

Be sure to rummage through their pockets for spare change. Collecting enough coins can grant you the power to resurrect yourself, should the need arise.

Re:MG Levels Reminds Me of SMB3

[renegadesx]

Well "Sweet Sweet Galaxy" uses a theme from SMB3 so yeah it does feel nostalgic. I'm up to the last Galaxy system and almost done. This may be my favourate Mario yet (before that was SMB3)

Personally I didn't think Sunshine in of itself was a bad game. It was bad when you place it along side other Mario games but in of itself it was kind of cool.

A Clockwork Mario

[Dogtanian]

Don't worry if the guards come, you can just jump on their heads. Consider this- are computer games harmless? Imagine that a bunch of teenagers play out what they've learned in Mario games for real.

They go out at night dressed in red and blue costumes and viciously assault their enemies by jumping on their heads. This sounds more like something out of "A Clockwork Orange" to me. :-/