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Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of the <\/span>Mario <\/span>series, was <\/span>surprised that reviews for <\/span>The Super Mario Galaxy Movie <\/span>were<\/span> mostly pretty negative<\/span>, but in spite of the film\u2019s critical drubbing, he wants future <\/span>Mario <\/span>games to reflect parts of the animated sequel. Specifically, he wants the movie\u2019s exploration of Princess Peach\u2019s backstory to become part of her story in the games, despite it potentially retconning decades of established lore.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n In an interview with <\/span>Nintendo Dream<\/span> (translated by <\/span>Nintendo Everything<\/span>), Miyamoto, ever the walking contradiction when it comes to narrative and its supposed restraints, says that he typically doesn\u2019t like being bound by story, which is why he hasn\u2019t established lengthy backstories for <\/span>Mario <\/span>characters over the years. Now that Nintendo is being forced by the nature of cinema to actually create plot (though I\u2019m using that term loosely), Miyamoto says it would like to adhere to the continuity it\u2019s created in the movies.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBecause we don\u2019t know what kind of game we\u2019ll make next with our characters, having too many character settings would become a constraint,\u201d Miyamoto said. \u201cI\u2019m fine with being bound by the gameplay, but I don\u2019t want to be bound by having created a story, which has been the reason for not making movies for many years. So, before making this movie, I hadn\u2019t decided on the character\u2019s backstory, but now that I\u2019m making the movie, it\u2019s become fun to expand on the character in various ways. Therefore, I would like to adhere as much as possible to the settings created in the movie in future games.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n He\u2019s specifically referring to <\/span>The Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/span>\u2019s<\/span> reveal that Peach and Rosalina, the magic-wielding guardian of the cosmos, are actually sisters. This isn\u2019t the case in the games, as Rosalina\u2019s backstory was <\/span>plainly laid out<\/span> in <\/span>Super Mario Galaxy<\/span> back in 2007, but early in the character\u2019s development, Nintendo had entertained linking the two, which would have made some sense considering their strong resemblance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In some ways, I find Nintendo\u2019s determination to <\/span>not ge caught up in lore and continuity<\/span> endearing, as it feels like all media analysis has become a long list of Wikipedia Trivia facts, and having a big company just kinda throw that out the window and do whatever it feels like is a breath of fresh air. However, the way the company is inconsistent with this philosophy and now seems set to anchor a lot of its worldbuilding to bad reference-ridden, logic-defying movies kinda sucks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Miyamoto seems to have become the \u201cmovies and theme parks\u201d guy at Nintendo in recent years, though he still has producer credits on recent games like <\/span>Super Mario Odyssey <\/span>and <\/span>The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom<\/span>. I\u2019m all for someone trying new things, especially with Miyamoto in his 70s now and having essentially paved the way for the whole medium, but I do feel like we\u2019re seeing the limits of a video game savant walking into an inherently story-driven medium when he has historically viewed narrative as a \u201cconstraint\u201d rather than a tool. Hopefully <\/span>the <\/span>Zelda<\/span> movie<\/span> makes this transition a bit more cleanly, as those games have historically been story-driven in a way <\/span>Mario <\/span>hasn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of the Mario series, was surprised that reviews for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie were mostly pretty negative, but in spite of the film\u2019s critical drubbing, he wants future Mario games to reflect parts of the animated sequel. 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