Go buy Lost Winds right now!
An awesome side-scrolling platformer where you control wind and air currents.
So they didn't really lose the wind?
The wind spirit, that was traped with the evil demon, had all of her magical parts scattered around the island.
Spirit particles are so weird....
Let's study them! Hurry! Someone kill that ghost so I can dissect it!
Lame plot, but (based on a video) the game definitely looks interesting.
The plot's just there to give you an excuse to do what you're doing, nothing more. The real game is in the presentation.
Still, decent plots are always better than stupid ones.
The plot isn't stupid, it's just very simple and one that doesn't try to do anything new.
A Black Falcon Wrote:Still, decent plots are always better than stupid ones.
In some cases, the plot is pretty much irrelevant. I heard the plot to Mario Galaxy is kind of dumb (I never bothered to watch all those cutscenes, something about Bowser trying to destroy the universe?), but it doesn't matter, because the gameplay is awesome.
If it's a game like Mario, I actually think a "stupid" plot is superior, because that means charming innocence.
I don't want a brooding Mario.
Mario in the vein of LotR would be hilarious, but actually that Russian/Communist style Mario art where he has a sledge hammer and the horribly disfigured characters but that would feel so, so wrong.
I didn't say brooding, I just said better. You're right, Mario games don't need hugely complex plots, or deep characters. But it's not like EVERY Mario game involves a captured princess... they've mixed it up some before, they could do it again. See Mario 2, Mario Land 2, Wario Land (1, then the whole series, but 1 is the only one with serious Mario ties -- see the ending), Yoshi's Story... Yoshi's Island technically, but there it was just Luigi instead of Princess. But anyway, the point is, they could do something a bit different... they just don't. It's too bad.
Different eh? You mean like Super Mario RPG? They've done different plenty of times.
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