[Phantom Stranger]

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Originally Posted by Starscream Gaga

I loved Rosalina's back story in Galaxy. Its so rare that Mario characters have any effort put into their personalities and tales outside of RPGs (not including Sticker Star).

But then Miyamoto had to screw it up with Baby Rosalina after telling everyone that he didn't approve of their being a hidden story in Galaxy, because he has a weird fear of story and personality. Him retiring would be the best thing that could happen to Nintendo.

What I find weird about that is while Yoshiaki Koizumi did write the script for the book when no one was around in one night, he told Miyamoto about it the very next day.

I'll admit a lot of Miyamoto's decisions have been really weird if not downright bad at times. I don't necessarily disagree with (core) Mario games having simplistic plots, but that being said, I love Galaxy's story and it was a breath of fresh air, but I don't think they should be any more complicated than that...well maybe a bit, but not much.

I do however thing think if you have a more complex story to tell, it should be in a Zelda game.

Things I strongly and fully disagree with him on is the lack of any drama in a Mario game. When they were developing New Super Mario Bros. he was very much against the idea of Peach being kidnapped in a dramatic way. He wanted an air ship to lower a cake down as bait to capture the Princess because apparently she's a dingbat glutton. You know, you can do something like that as a joke and it work if it's done right, but that sounded really awful. I can't help but wonder if there is a point where creators just start to lose it.

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Originally Posted by Starscream Gaga

I'm confused, Peach is blonde too.

In her earliest appearances Peach had brown or reddish hair due to color limitations before properly being presented as blonde. That was back when she was still called Toadstool outside of Japan. By Super Mario World her sprite was blonde and she had her name changed to the original Japanese name of Peach.