Well, this is an interesting topic. I'm typing down my idea first and reading others' later, though.
So I know this concept has been used before and is quite cliche'd and not that original, it was even used by Nintendo Alphadream already for M&L2, but it wasn't executed well at all (sorry, but M&L2 is not an excellent game). The concept is: time traveling for a Mario game.
But I'd like to see a Mario game with proper, deep, paradox inducing, space-time continium messing of time traveling! Imagine Mario traveling to the dinosaur era equivalent of the Mushroom world... it be a world sized Dinosaur Land, but more tropical, more primitive, with bigger and un-evolved versions of common enemies. A boss would be a giant Rex named Rex-Rex and stuff like that.
Actually, I once came with a quite developed plan for this game... I was actually making it with SMBX, but ended dropping it. I guess is no harm if I post here what I had planned:
The game tittle was going to be "Super Mario Paradox"
The story starts when in an apparently normal day, Princess Peach was at her castle doing what, uh, whatever princesses do in their castles, when suddenly a dark portal opens in the sky above the Mushroom Castle, and Bowser's fleet come invading the kingdom as they've done it before, however Bowser comes flying in his Koopa Klown Kar and crashes in the castle's through a big stained glass window. Of course, Mario rushes to the castle as soon as he notices the Koopa invasion and comes in time to witness Bowser crashing... however, there's something noticeably odd about Bowser this time, he is not just wearing a dark purple cape, but his hair is white and longer and his skin has a tone of gray. Bowser is all like "Princess Peach, I've finally built my powerful dreamed empire, and there's only one thing I need for it to be perfect... it's you!" And he would swipe the princess. Mario would rush trying to stop Bowser but a giant wall of fire would appear in front of him, summoned by an army of Magikoopas. Bowser would look at Mario and say "Haha, Mario... I have no need of you in my new perfect world", then he would manage to scape with the princess, flying away in his Klown Kar and entering the portal in the sky, the Airships would follow Bowser into the portal and it closes. Mario, of course, plans to rescue Peach as he always do, but when he is about to leave, Merlon teleports into the room: "Mario, I knew you were here because I sensed your presence. Mario, you would not be planning to rescue the princess as you usually do, don't you? Well, if you didn't know, Bowser does not live in this time anymore... in fact, the whole Koopa Kastle is no more in this time. See, that portal that opened above the castle in the sky, was a portal... from the future, far in the future. Bowser somehow got the power to travel through time and used it too well; he traveled through many different time paths untill he finally found a point in an alternate future path where nor you nor any know hero would defeat him. He then became unstoppable, conquered the Mushroom Kingdom as he always wanted and slowly but effectively shaped the world to his desire. As Princess Peach didn't live in at the time anymore, he solely came back to this time to kidnap her." While talking, Merlon would take out a crystal ball and show Mario the story... Bowser conquering the MK and the land changing into a world sized Dark Land... the grass and trees all withered, the sky darkened, most of the fauna... skellofied (skelleton Goombas, Dry-Bones, etc), etc... Then Merlon adds "Conveniently enough, I have a time hall in my basement, full of time portals; however these portals need energy of the Time Power Stars in order to work. See, I believe Bowser used the power of these Stars to travel through time, and many of them have been scatered through the different eras of our world... some of them are even in this time, I believe. Actually, I think I can sense the presence of some nearby at the lands outside Toad Town. Bring me one and I'll let you enter my basement. Mario, you must save the future..."
That basically would be the intro, more or less. this is how things would work:
The game is divided into 6 different Eras (times) with many different Loci (levels). the loci ("places" in latin, "locus" for singular) are places that change drastically depending on the era Mario is in, and even they can be altered through events Mario does in the past at the same Locus. The hub world would be the main Town which would have a different name and form in each different Era.
The Eras are as follows:
The Era of the Mushroom Kingdom (Present): Obviously the Era where the game starts. It's the regular Mario world as we all know it and love.
The Era of Dragons (Prehistory): A time far, far in the past, when the land was popullated mainy by dragons, or dinosaurs, as I decided that dinosaurs in the Mario world are also dragons (Yoshi has been called a dragon before and many Mario dinosaurs spit fire). A world that is a lot like a world sized Dinosaur Land, with volcanoes, hostile creatures and big, un-evolved versions of other Mario enemies (Imagine big, furry Goombas with sabertooth fangs). Friendly Yoshis willing to help Mario can be found in many levels at this Era. An small Yoshi village is in place of Toad Town at this time.
The Era of Discoveries (Past): A time in the past of the Mushroom Kingdom when it was starting to be founded as a Kingdom. It offers a sort of Steampunk scenario a la XVIII century. Also, the war against the Koopa Kingdom was getting started, and both kingdoms been in a cold war ever since. Since I was doing this game with SMBX, I was going to use 8-bit styled graphics for this Era. Toad Town is a newly founded town now.
The Era of Ancients (Middle Age): The equivalent of the XII century for the Mushroom world, but without poverty nor pest. farms, knights, wizards, dungeons and dragons. The world is at peace and is governed by a council of Shamans (the ones currently known as the ancient ones). There's a big magical city of wizards here instead of Toad Town.
The Era of the Koopa Kingdom (Future): This is the sad, devastated future Bowser has created. Toad Town is no more Toad Town but Koopa Kastle Town, and you can still see Toads wandering the streets, but they all are the poor, marginated race. The world is now a world sized Dark Land pretty much.
The Era of Creation (The beginning of time): This would be a secret era that you get to travel to when you have more stars then the needed amount to fight Bowser. The world is a beautiful eden of colors and light, everything is very bright and vivid, more than usual, and Mario gets to witness the first ever Yoshi eggs to hatch. Everything is also more wacky than usual.
That's all I will write. I also came up with some power-up ideas and ideas for bosses, but I might write them latter in this same topic.
Well, this is an interesting topic. I'm typing down my idea first and reading others' later, though.
So I know this concept has been used before and is quite cliche'd and not that original, it was even used by Nintendo Alphadream already for M&L2, but it wasn't executed well at all (sorry, but M&L2 is not an excellent game). The concept is: time traveling for a Mario game.
But I'd like to see a Mario game with proper, deep, paradox inducing, space-time continium messing of time traveling! Imagine Mario traveling to the dinosaur era equivalent of the Mushroom world... it be a world sized Dinosaur Land, but more tropical, more primitive, with bigger and un-evolved versions of common enemies. A boss would be a giant Rex named Rex-Rex and stuff like that.
Actually, I once came with a quite developed plan for this game... I was actually making it with SMBX, but ended dropping it. I guess is no harm if I post here what I had planned:
The game tittle was going to be "Super Mario Paradox"
The story starts when in an apparently normal day, Princess Peach was at her castle doing what, uh, whatever princesses do in their castles, when suddenly a dark portal opens in the sky above the Mushroom Castle, and Bowser's fleet come invading the kingdom as they've done it before, however Bowser comes flying in his Koopa Klown Kar and crashes in the castle's through a big stained glass window. Of course, Mario rushes to the castle as soon as he notices the Koopa invasion and comes in time to witness Bowser crashing... however, there's something noticeably odd about Bowser this time, he is not just wearing a dark purple cape, but his hair is white and longer and his skin has a tone of gray. Bowser is all like "Princess Peach, I've finally built my powerful dreamed empire, and there's only one thing I need for it to be perfect... it's you!" And he would swipe the princess. Mario would rush trying to stop Bowser but a giant wall of fire would appear in front of him, summoned by an army of Magikoopas. Bowser would look at Mario and say "Haha, Mario... I have no need of you in my new perfect world", then he would manage to scape with the princess, flying away in his Klown Kar and entering the portal in the sky, the Airships would follow Bowser into the portal and it closes. Mario, of course, plans to rescue Peach as he always do, but when he is about to leave, Merlon teleports into the room: "Mario, I knew you were here because I sensed your presence. Mario, you would not be planning to rescue the princess as you usually do, don't you? Well, if you didn't know, Bowser does not live in this time anymore... in fact, the whole Koopa Kastle is no more in this time. See, that portal that opened above the castle in the sky, was a portal... from the future, far in the future. Bowser somehow got the power to travel through time and used it too well; he traveled through many different time paths untill he finally found a point in an alternate future path where nor you nor any know hero would defeat him. He then became unstoppable, conquered the Mushroom Kingdom as he always wanted and slowly but effectively shaped the world to his desire. As Princess Peach didn't live in at the time anymore, he solely came back to this time to kidnap her." While talking, Merlon would take out a crystal ball and show Mario the story... Bowser conquering the MK and the land changing into a world sized Dark Land... the grass and trees all withered, the sky darkened, most of the fauna... skellofied (skelleton Goombas, Dry-Bones, etc), etc... Then Merlon adds "Conveniently enough, I have a time hall in my basement, full of time portals; however these portals need energy of the Time Power Stars in order to work. See, I believe Bowser used the power of these Stars to travel through time, and many of them have been scatered through the different eras of our world... some of them are even in this time, I believe. Actually, I think I can sense the presence of some nearby at the lands outside Toad Town. Bring me one and I'll let you enter my basement. Mario, you must save the future..."
That basically would be the intro, more or less. this is how things would work:
The game is divided into 6 different Eras (times) with many different Loci (levels). the loci ("places" in latin, "locus" for singular) are places that change drastically depending on the era Mario is in, and even they can be altered through events Mario does in the past at the same Locus. The hub world would be the main Town which would have a different name and form in each different Era.
The Eras are as follows:
The Era of the Mushroom Kingdom (Present): Obviously the Era where the game starts. It's the regular Mario world as we all know it and love.
The Era of Dragons (Prehistory): A time far, far in the past, when the land was popullated mainy by dragons, or dinosaurs, as I decided that dinosaurs in the Mario world are also dragons (Yoshi has been called a dragon before and many Mario dinosaurs spit fire). A world that is a lot like a world sized Dinosaur Land, with volcanoes, hostile creatures and big, un-evolved versions of other Mario enemies (Imagine big, furry Goombas with sabertooth fangs). Friendly Yoshis willing to help Mario can be found in many levels at this Era. An small Yoshi village is in place of Toad Town at this time.
The Era of Discoveries (Past): A time in the past of the Mushroom Kingdom when it was starting to be founded as a Kingdom. It offers a sort of Steampunk scenario a la XVIII century. Also, the war against the Koopa Kingdom was getting started, and both kingdoms been in a cold war ever since. Since I was doing this game with SMBX, I was going to use 8-bit styled graphics for this Era. Toad Town is a newly founded town now.
The Era of Ancients (Middle Age): The equivalent of the XII century for the Mushroom world, but without poverty nor pest. farms, knights, wizards, dungeons and dragons. The world is at peace and is governed by a council of Shamans (the ones currently known as the ancient ones). There's a big magical city of wizards here instead of Toad Town.
The Era of the Koopa Kingdom (Future): This is the sad, devastated future Bowser has created. Toad Town is no more Toad Town but Koopa Kastle Town, and you can still see Toads wandering the streets, but they all are the poor, marginated race. The world is now a world sized Dark Land pretty much.
The Era of Creation (The beginning of time): This would be a secret era that you get to travel to when you have more stars then the needed amount to fight Bowser. The world is a beautiful eden of colors and light, everything is very bright and vivid, more than usual, and Mario gets to witness the first ever Yoshi eggs to hatch. Everything is also more wacky than usual.
That's all I will write. I also came up with some power-up ideas and ideas for bosses, but I might write them latter in this same topic.
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