Super Mario Bros. Wonder Has Nothing To Do With The Mario Movie
Super Mario Bros. Wonder's developers have confirmed that the game wasn't inspired by and has nothing to do with Illumination's Super Mario Bros. Movie.
It's been a pretty massive year for Super Mario, not just as a series, but when it comes to the actual character himself. Not only did he swap voice actors in the gaming space after having the same one for more than three decades, but his and every other Mario character's personalities were focused on more than ever before in the Super Mario Bros. Movie earlier this year.
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With the Super Mario Bros. Movie putting so much focus on its characters, including their designs, expressions, and animations, it wasn't hard to imagine that Nintendo might have taken inspiration from the movie and gone for the same approach for Super Mario Bros. Wonder, which notably puts a lot more effort into how the game and its characters look.
Despite that theory making a lot of sense, that apparently wasn't the case at all. Nintendo recently published a lengthy developer diary with some of the team that worked on Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and one of the topics that's discussed during it is whether or not the Mario movie had any impact on Wonder's development.
In response to that question, Wonder's art director Masanobu Sato simply said that the game and the movie have nothing to do with one another and that it's just a coincidence. Most of the team working on Super Mario Bros. Wonder reportedly "didn't hear anything" about what was in the film during development, with only a few members knowing anything about it.
Sato said, "We're often asked about the film's influence on the game, but we didn't hear anything
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