During development Mario Kart WorldThe team that made it was confronted with an vital, potentially existential question: Are Mario actually eaten mushrooms? I mean, if great mushrooms in the universe of Mario must be eatenor just affected to saturate Mario (and Luigi) with great power?
The answer to this question may seem obvious to you, but even a 20-year-old veteran Nintendo Shintaro Jikumaru wondered if he really understood the mechanism of providing mushroom mushrooms. Jikumaru i Mario Kart World Manufacturer Kosuke Yabuki made due diligence in this matter, addressing the director of Nintendo Takashi Tezuka. Tezuka was an assistant to the director of the original Super Mario Bros.Since then, he has produced or supervised dozens of Mario games, so if someone knew, he.
. Mario Kart World Devs asked the question above all, because Jikumaru was inspired to add food-in particular hamburgers-to the modern open world Mario Kart. This required game designers to implement food animations.
“We thought why we don’t have a drive system in which the characters eat while driving, and food makes them change costumes or transform into a different character?” Yabuki explained. “Although it is completely funny.”
Adding hamburgers (and other regional foods that cause wardrobe changes) Mario Kart World He forced Yabuki and Jikumar to face the rules of the Super Mario universe. In modern Ask an interview for programmers in Nintendoexplain:
Yabuki: Then the question arose: “Is Mario actually eats mushrooms?” (Laughter)
Jikumaru: So during the development we went to Tezuka-San and asked him to confirm: “Are Mario really eating these mushrooms?”
Yabuki: Correct. And The Teuka-San replies: “Yes, he is.”
Long -time Mario fans probably point to games such as the Mario & Luigi series, in which the brothers clearly show that they throw edible upgrades into the mouth, or Film Super Mario Bros.which makes Mario eats mushrooms to unlock their effects, but touch Items such as Fire Flowers and Super Stars to get your powers. Still, you can appreciate it Mario Kart WorldThe creators want to be correct and that there are some inconsistency in dozens of improvements in Mario games. IN Mario Kart 8 DeluxeFor example, when Mario uses a great mushroom in the race, he was not shown; Instead, it is suggested that the fungus is passed on to the go -kart as a kind Nose shot.
But questions about which super mario evies mario eats compared to what just affects, can be to the debate. And there are many other unknowns. To consider:
You can probably say that if I ever get an interview with Takashi Tezuka (highly unlikely after this story) I will have dozens of questions for him that he will be more and more annoyed.
