17th May 2017, 3:18 PM
Tropical Freeze is really just feeding off female characters from previous games in the series (namely, one specific one), so it's hard to give it too much credit. Really though, the Country series in general has never had "rescue the damsel" as a plot in a single one of those games.
I mean, will Peach being a damsel in distress ruin Odyssey for me? Ha, no, I'm sure it'll still be great. It's just... you know, I had high hopes that Nintendo was moving on past that. I'm not expecting EVERY Mario game to let you play as Peach, just for them to put "save her" to bed for if not "forever" then "a good long while". Rescuing those androgynous fairies worked just fine. Heck, a basic plot would be "Mario saves the real world from Bowser". I mean, that works. He could make a few new friends if he's gotta have that "personal connection", but heck had zero connection to Peach in the first Super Mario Bros, so that's hardly strictly necessary. Heck, Kirby helps out basically every random stranger that shows up at his door step, and I've got no problems with him acting as a hero. I just feel sorry for Peach's voice actor. I'm betting she'd prefer to make general grunts and "hah" sounds than shouting "MAAARIO WHERE AAARRE YOU?" every game. I guess my biggest gripe is that I kinda expected Peachy Toadstool would be a regular playable character after Super Mario Bros 2. Sure, she got captured again near the end of SMB3, and AGAIN at the very start of World, but then Super Mario RPG made her a playable character again after playing around with the "captured" trope, and that Nintendo Power comic also put her in a major roll. I recall being pretty disappointed going from Super Mario RPG's story to Super Mario 64. Great game, and the origin of the collectathon, but after toppling a world devouring evil so great even Bowser had to team up with me to beat it, just kicking Bowser out of Peach's house seemed lackluster by comparison. I really don't need every Mario game to have a story as developed as the Mario RPGs, but put some twists on the story now and again! At least Zelda is trying!
I mean, will Peach being a damsel in distress ruin Odyssey for me? Ha, no, I'm sure it'll still be great. It's just... you know, I had high hopes that Nintendo was moving on past that. I'm not expecting EVERY Mario game to let you play as Peach, just for them to put "save her" to bed for if not "forever" then "a good long while". Rescuing those androgynous fairies worked just fine. Heck, a basic plot would be "Mario saves the real world from Bowser". I mean, that works. He could make a few new friends if he's gotta have that "personal connection", but heck had zero connection to Peach in the first Super Mario Bros, so that's hardly strictly necessary. Heck, Kirby helps out basically every random stranger that shows up at his door step, and I've got no problems with him acting as a hero. I just feel sorry for Peach's voice actor. I'm betting she'd prefer to make general grunts and "hah" sounds than shouting "MAAARIO WHERE AAARRE YOU?" every game. I guess my biggest gripe is that I kinda expected Peachy Toadstool would be a regular playable character after Super Mario Bros 2. Sure, she got captured again near the end of SMB3, and AGAIN at the very start of World, but then Super Mario RPG made her a playable character again after playing around with the "captured" trope, and that Nintendo Power comic also put her in a major roll. I recall being pretty disappointed going from Super Mario RPG's story to Super Mario 64. Great game, and the origin of the collectathon, but after toppling a world devouring evil so great even Bowser had to team up with me to beat it, just kicking Bowser out of Peach's house seemed lackluster by comparison. I really don't need every Mario game to have a story as developed as the Mario RPGs, but put some twists on the story now and again! At least Zelda is trying!
"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)