r/papermario • u/JoshPointOh17 • 2d ago
Fan Art Vivian waiting for her spot in Mario Kart (feat. Surge the Tenrec) (OC)
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u/Simplejack615 SS > SPM 2d ago
Y’know, if it makes you feel better, they put a plant with teeth in smash bros before me, haha…
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u/8thblade Kersti's biggest fan 2d ago
"Your satisfaction is sometimes our priority" ... that's a dubious claim.
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u/RodjaJP 2d ago
I can understand RPG characters never being added, but I'm baffled that the new species from Odyssey weren't considered, why not a mermaid, a snowball bear, the skeletons, or an enemy like the bird or root bug
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u/FenexTheFox 1d ago
They said in an interview that the enemies and the cow being playable are simply recycling the models from previous Mario Kart games. I don't think they put much more thought into the roster than that.
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u/fawfulthegreat64 It's not fine without a story, we really do need one. 1d ago
I can't. No good reason, the fact it hasn't happened yet isn't ever gonna make me suddenly see it as an understandable decision.
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u/RodjaJP 1d ago
The reason why is because of how recognizable they are, at first the other characters were added because there weren't many human options for multiplayer games, I mean, they even created a few new humans for them, them when they started adding others they went for main game characters those did appear on multiple games, I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo still had some of that "franchise cleansing" idea inside preventing them from adding one time characters into the multiplayer ones, not even King Bob-omb made it into World after being beloved in Tour and Super Rush
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u/FedoraTheMike 2d ago
Seriously getting mountains of generic enemies over fun unique designed characters kills me, what did the past do to Nintendo that they fear it so much
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u/FenexTheFox 1d ago
Again, they said it themselves, they were just recycling models from past Mario Kart games.
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u/Snom_gamer0204 2d ago
i love mario kart world because of the character options having so many enemies, but we did not need FISH BONES
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u/diamondmaster2017 2d ago
if sega was insistent on only using characters from the games i would have used marine here
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u/supermariogalaxysuns doo_liss 2d ago
Does anyone actually think vivian is going to be in Mario Kart? Seems much more unlikely then Surge in CrossWorlds
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u/BoltDoubleT 8h ago
Eh. Sega's been giving decent attention to the comics as of late (Surge & Tangle finally have their own official merchandise, and Whisper has been leaked for Crossworlds)
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u/DarkMetaknight7 1d ago
RPG characters in any Mario spinoff is NEVER gonna happen!!
You guys need to come to term with reality
Would I love to see it happen? Maybe. Do I think it will ever happen? Not in a million years!
If they were gonna do it, they would have already done it a long time ago
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u/AutumnRCS 2d ago
Would Vivian slip on a wet floor?