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Mario and Luigi: Dream Team dev discusses why the series has so much freedom with new characters
Coming from an MTV interview with Akira Ohtani, Producer for the last three "Mario & Luigi" games...
“One thing that we pay special attention to is that, when it is difficult to fully realize the scenario we’ve envisioned with the Mario franchise characters that are available at hand, we try to pay attention to when there is a specific need to create a new character to allow us to flush out our vision for a scenario for a game.
When creating an RPG, we feel like the scenarios are a really important element that requires a lot of focus and energy. It’s true that we are using Mario characters that have appeared in a lot of well-known franchises, but I feel like we still have a lot of freedom to work with them... I feel like that’s one of the other areas that we have a little bit freedom to work around some of the limitations of how the Mario Universe has been cottified to a an extent, is when we create a new character. We try to only do so when it is absolutely necessary to realize the scenario we want.”
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“One thing that we pay special attention to is that, when it is difficult to fully realize the scenario we’ve envisioned with the Mario franchise characters that are available at hand, we try to pay attention to when there is a specific need to create a new character to allow us to flush out our vision for a scenario for a game.
When creating an RPG, we feel like the scenarios are a really important element that requires a lot of focus and energy. It’s true that we are using Mario characters that have appeared in a lot of well-known franchises, but I feel like we still have a lot of freedom to work with them... I feel like that’s one of the other areas that we have a little bit freedom to work around some of the limitations of how the Mario Universe has been cottified to a an extent, is when we create a new character. We try to only do so when it is absolutely necessary to realize the scenario we want.”
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