23rd April 2003, 6:11 PM
Birdo is pretty popular these days, but indeed Baby Luigi is somewhat, odd. "I don't know about this Baby Mario..." Meanwhile, Koopa Jr. is saying "stupid babies" as he drives by. I STILL wanna know what happened to Bowser's first batch of kids... Seems to me they actually were killed in Super Mario World. Well, makes sense, almost all of them fell in some sort of lava and that stuff isn't candy.
I like the unique karts too. I just want to know how they are selected. Hopefully you get to choose them too, meaning Mario and Luigi can ride around in the DK barrel. The only other option is just using the vehicle that goes with the lead driver. You know, actually there's a third option. What if when you switch drivers the vehicle changes too? No, is crazy, too crazy... so crazy... it just... might... WORK!
The look of the game? Sure it's not super stunning like F-Zero, but it's "good enough". Remember, this is the generation where games finally look "fine as is"! Just like how the SNES generation was where 2D graphics finally became "good enough". Sure it can get MUCH better, but this is passable, decent, and no tweakin' needed.
Oh yeah, I remember reading that Nintendarse. I think that may have been just the translation, but then again why would someone translate something from something innocent TO something potentially controversial? On the other hand, remember that the voices added to Super Mario Advance are straight from the Japanese version, including Birdo's. To be honest, I think anything with no actual gender could easily become sexually confused in the presence of all those other gender based life forms. Birdo seems quite like Yoshi though, able to instantly reproduce at any time, so it's appearence could go either way without any real controversy.
I like the unique karts too. I just want to know how they are selected. Hopefully you get to choose them too, meaning Mario and Luigi can ride around in the DK barrel. The only other option is just using the vehicle that goes with the lead driver. You know, actually there's a third option. What if when you switch drivers the vehicle changes too? No, is crazy, too crazy... so crazy... it just... might... WORK!
The look of the game? Sure it's not super stunning like F-Zero, but it's "good enough". Remember, this is the generation where games finally look "fine as is"! Just like how the SNES generation was where 2D graphics finally became "good enough". Sure it can get MUCH better, but this is passable, decent, and no tweakin' needed.
Oh yeah, I remember reading that Nintendarse. I think that may have been just the translation, but then again why would someone translate something from something innocent TO something potentially controversial? On the other hand, remember that the voices added to Super Mario Advance are straight from the Japanese version, including Birdo's. To be honest, I think anything with no actual gender could easily become sexually confused in the presence of all those other gender based life forms. Birdo seems quite like Yoshi though, able to instantly reproduce at any time, so it's appearence could go either way without any real controversy.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)