Mario Discussion

@Great Plateau  
I hope one of them is a Troll level.

@igotnopicks  
Troll level?

@Great Plateau  
You know a Troll level.

@igotnopicks  
Um…no, I still don’t…and I g2g for now so TTYL.

“Luigi’s Mansion” for 3DS is part of the discount E3 Eshop sale, and while others may not care about 3DS anymore, I still enjoy mine, so I got it for the 40% discount.  
It’s pretty good, the gallery area is improved, and is more spacious, but they oddly got rid of the creepy angel statues. (The ones that move when you tap them.) I wonder why.

The direct was actually the first time I’ve heard of doug bowser and he left a great first impression

 
gakigi

@northern haste  
Gooigi’s actually not a new feature, he’s from the recent Luigi’s Mansion 1 3DS remake, which I recently got.
 
Gatta admit, I’m looking forward to Luigi’s Mansion 3.

@Beau Skunky  
Maybe they just didn’t like the statues after all?

 
 

 
I’m not sure but I think these power-ups would come closest to just increasing all of Mario’s stats. If not I think they should be.
 
Metal for his attack and defence  
Cape, for his speed and agility  
Fire for his magic.

@Shepherd  
I guess star Mario would be all of the above.

I just downloaded the “Gold” release of Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle from the Switch EShop thanks to the huge sales going on. Looking forward to it.

@Jarkes  
What’s the “gold” release?
 
I don’t have a Switch yet, so I just got Luigi’s Mansion from the Eshop sale.

@Beau Skunky  
I think it means you own the DLC aswell

@Beau Skunky
 
Getting all the DLC with the game in a single download.

@Jarkes  
How much is it right now?

@Red-Supernova
 
Buying it as the “Gold” package is about $27.

I still need to get the Dk DLC.Was there anymore besides that?

Is there any behind the scenes footage of the donkey Kong country showbecause I think I might get a good laugh at watching the actors trying to do the motion capture  

Dr. Donkey Knog.

@northern haste  
Not that I know of, but yeah, the animation was all motion-capture which was revolutionary for 1997, but hasn’t aged well. Nowadays, motion-capture is considered a cheap/crumby form of 3D animation. Pixar even brags about not using it in their end credits to their movies. Though, we forget beloved games like “Ocarina of Time” used it somewhat. So it’s not always bad.
 
Interestingly, the DKC cartoon is of French/Canadian orgins. It also oddly never used the term “Kremlings,” and mispronounced King K. Rool’s (Kay Rool) name as “Kuh-Rool.”  
Oddly, the DKC show was popular in Japan, (to the point it had merchandise like trading cards) and perhaps is why some Japanese fans wanted K.Rool in SSBU also.
 
Also, the “Donkey Kong Country” games were renamed “Super Donkey Kong” when released in Japan.  
(No, “Super” is not it’s original name, as they were made by Rareware a British company in english first, and released in english language countries before Japan. So “Country” is it’s original name.)

@Beau Skunky
 
Motion capture also hadn’t really reached its full potential at that point.

@Jarkes  
Yeah, though even today, the animation industry/fanbase kinda looks down on it still, as I said.
 
Interestingly, the DKC show has ties to old game cartoons. Klump the Kremling general was voiced by the late Len Carlson, whom voiced Ganon in Zelda and Captain N. Meanwhile Andrew Sabastion was both Diddy Kong, AND Yoshi in the old “Super Mario World” cartoon tie-in.

@Beau Skunky  
@Jarkes  
I don’t know about cheap why do know it is really most questionable type of 3d animation.When they try to make it look realistic you just wondering why is it animated and not live action but when they do it cartoony they might as well just animated normally. The only fully mocap animated movie that got it right was Spielberg’s Tintin movie

@northern haste  
Tintin was very good, (and sadly underrated) and yeah it was well done.  
“Polar Express” was pretty good too, despite being a bit more uncanny/twitchy at times.
 
I think the jerky movements, and such are probably why some don’t like it, but it depends on the kinda mo-cap actors, or movements they use.