23rd April 2003, 3:41 PM
Actually, the SMB2 booklet describes birdo as sexually confused, but Nintendo seems to have disowned the writer of that booklet and decided to make Birdo simply a girl.
I'd agree that F-Zero does look slicker and generally prettier. Yes, there are 16 characters and 8 carts to render, but everything seems to have taken a hit to keep the framerate up. The character models are barely passable (compare Melee's Peach with the closeup of Peach on Mario's Kart), and the environments are as low-poly as they come. Double Dash will have to keep the Karts close to each other to keep the gameplay interesting (driving alone on those tracks will probably induce major boredom), but I hope the developer does not resort to cheating AI (a la Mario Kart 64).
I'd agree that F-Zero does look slicker and generally prettier. Yes, there are 16 characters and 8 carts to render, but everything seems to have taken a hit to keep the framerate up. The character models are barely passable (compare Melee's Peach with the closeup of Peach on Mario's Kart), and the environments are as low-poly as they come. Double Dash will have to keep the Karts close to each other to keep the gameplay interesting (driving alone on those tracks will probably induce major boredom), but I hope the developer does not resort to cheating AI (a la Mario Kart 64).