23rd September 2012, 12:12 AM
http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=185495
The relevant bit:
<img src="http://www.gonintendo.com/content/uploads/images/2012_9/No-koopa.jpg">
This kinda flies in the face of the SMB3 manual which states numerous times they ARE his kids, and again in both the All-Stars and Advance version's manuals.
I really don't care too much about Mario's "continuity" and tend to think of the Mario universe as in flux like the Looney Toons universe. If the old quartet of games has them as his children and the new set of games sets them as... um... a bunch of random koopas of no relation, then that's fine. I can just accept that most Mario games occur in their own isolated instances and the general personalities are all that get moved around from game to game. It just doesn't seem very fun or interesting to me though. Bowser Jr isn't all that interesting on his own.
Ya know what? Screw it, they're still his kids to me. Miyamoto's statements about continuity in interviews aren't really to be trusted anyway. Remember all those completely contradictory statements about Zelda's timeline before they officially released a timeline that, wouldn't you know it, ended up matching perfectly with what they originally said in the games themselves.
The relevant bit:
<img src="http://www.gonintendo.com/content/uploads/images/2012_9/No-koopa.jpg">
This kinda flies in the face of the SMB3 manual which states numerous times they ARE his kids, and again in both the All-Stars and Advance version's manuals.
I really don't care too much about Mario's "continuity" and tend to think of the Mario universe as in flux like the Looney Toons universe. If the old quartet of games has them as his children and the new set of games sets them as... um... a bunch of random koopas of no relation, then that's fine. I can just accept that most Mario games occur in their own isolated instances and the general personalities are all that get moved around from game to game. It just doesn't seem very fun or interesting to me though. Bowser Jr isn't all that interesting on his own.
Ya know what? Screw it, they're still his kids to me. Miyamoto's statements about continuity in interviews aren't really to be trusted anyway. Remember all those completely contradictory statements about Zelda's timeline before they officially released a timeline that, wouldn't you know it, ended up matching perfectly with what they originally said in the games themselves.
"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)