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This Idea For A Mario Game May Not Be What You'd Expect

"It's like a road movie in a car."

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If game developer Goichi Suda, the creator of No More Heroes and Let It Die, ever got to make a Mario game, it might be very different than what fans have come to expect from Nintendo's series.

Asked by IGN how he would go about making a Mario game, Suda AKA Suda51, said Mario would go on an adventure to rescue his brother Luigi instead of Peach.

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"So this really bad guy's captured Luigi, so Mario and Koopa become friends and they go together," he said. "It's like a road movie in a car. So they go from the south to the north and just go through it, like through America. I think it'd be great to make a Mario game like that."

Some of the games from Suda's studio, Grosshopper Manufacture, are over-the-top, violent, and bloody. Suda joked that he might "tone down the blood a little bit" if he made a Mario game.

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Though this game may never happen, it's fun to think about what kind of new ideas and approaches Nintendo may take with the Mario series as it relates to story and gameplay. The next major Mario game, Super Mario Odyssey, launches later this year for the Switch--and it looks pretty cool.

Grasshopper's latest title is Let It Die, which recently surpassed 2 million downloads.

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