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Grasshopper's Goichi Suda (51) is pretty comfortable making violent games, like bloody light saber fest No More Heroes (a slap in the face to most fiction/reality when burns tend to cauterize wounds, but we digress). So he was recently asked by Nintendo Official Magazine UK if he'd consider making titles for a younger crowd. And that's when his eyes turned red and pupils the darkest black of night...
I want to make a Super Mario game for adults...Maybe Mario could wear an Italian suit and have a machine gun...But Nintendo probably wouldn't like that idea.And somewhere in the distance, amongst the shadows and debris blowing in the wind, you could hear Miyamoto weeping. Softly.
With a gun.
Suda wants to make 'Mario with guns' [CVG][image]
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replace the gun with a flashlight and maybe. just maybe he can fight off ghost. That would be a killer idea!
That game would be amazing, and could possibly be the game to make Nintendo's balls finally drop.
man I was really into NMH till then ending then I just couldn't take the game, I am one of those people that story can easily destroy game play.
Would a "Mario" type game with guns even be a Mario type game anymore? It seems like it would be way to easy to kill people.
"Super mario bros - Cosanostra" yes me want it LOL, :D...
Hats off on a hilarious post Mark! I especially like the vagueness of the last line, is the gun for Shiggy himself, Suda, or parties not yet specified....;)
I dont see a plumber walking into a house with a shotgun but a flashlight would be more convienant.
Mario: Combat Evolved.
I was just thinking of a Super Mario FPS this morning. How odd.
Thats one high hurdle to jump over with Nintendo and Miyamoto to contend with. It would be interesting to see how to utterly destroy all the Mario enemies with a shotgun instead of just stomping on them (utter carnage).
Doesn't this already exist and is called Ratchet & Clank?
And in his next interview he will say "It seems my comment was taken out of context. Of course Nintendo wouldn't mind Mario with guns, they just don't have to make Mario with guns what with the high standard of their games" or something because a Nintendo man will be upset.
And Peach would be a dominatrix with knives, and we would see "Luigi, the avenger" too... But killing goombas with guns wouldn't be that cool, I think.
@Adam In Texas: Gameplay-wise, I don't see how a gun would be much different than shooting fireballs out of your figertips or commanding star bits to fall from the heavens on the unsuspecting heads of goombas.
I like this man.
wasn't something similar to this tried with the a spinoff of the sonic franchise? that worked beautifully, yes?
@sUKi: you guy to replace Mario with a another Italian wearing green too
anyone else remember startropics? the character used a yo-yo as a weapon
Super Mario Rampage FTW
No, no, no, NO! Remember what happened when they thought it would be a good idea to put guns in a Sonic game? Let's not make that mistake twice.
Leave the fireball flower, take the cannolis.
I want anything that comes out by Suda Goichi. Bring it on.
"No More Bowser"? "Luigi 7"? The possibilities are endless.
makes me think of the Mario/GTA Robot Chicken episode
No. Blasphemy.
I'm all for the whole "Mario needs to innovate instead of being whored out to every sport known to man" movement. But not guns.
Suda 51 should stick to his own creative ideas. Letting him futz with a pre-existing character would stagnate his artistic abilities and infuriate rabid fanboys when he bastardizes their favorite icon.
Yes, because when you want to make a game for adults, all you have to do is turn the main character into a gangster and give him a gun. Sounds more like Suda wants to make a game for tweeners pretending to be adults.
That'd be awesome :oD
So Mario games aren't for adults? Why didn't somebody tell me this before I spent hours of my adulthood on them when I could've been out assaulting prostitutes or smuggling cocaine across the border or doing any of those other things we adults do?
Ratchet ans Clank, anybody? No? Oh, that's because it sucks.
Mario vs Sonic!!
no sissy jumping and running...
just LOTS and LOTS of bullets flying and rocket explosions!!
Thanks, but no thanks, stick to the No More Herosish type games.
Oh, btw, I love how he says he'd make Mario games for adults, I must've missed something, being around 30 and all.
Since he was asked about making a game for the younger crowd, he could've just said "no".
Super Mafia Bros. I said it.
Correct, Nintendo probably wouldn't like an idea as lame as that.
Id so buy that game
Yeah Suda....just yeah. Sounds alot like any number of SNES games, would the blood be black, green or red?
FWIW Suda, I'm an adult....and I love me some Mario games. I'm beginning to think you are about as disconnected as they come.
I would SOOOO buy this game. This guy is becoming cool and awesome to me.
This article reminded me of a flash game I played once where mario has a gun and runs through the level using it on his enemies.
Screw guns, I want mario with jedi/sith powers.
@sadkermit: It's all about blood and gore, apparently. I bet him and Itagaki get along nicely.
Did Suda legally change his name to Suda 51? If so, he's stranger than I thought. Killer 7 should be remade so, you know, it controls like a videogame.
Best idea since Shadow the Hedgehog!
*winces*
The Goomba never saw it coming...
Thank you Suda. Is there an idea you can come up with that doesn't sound great?
How about a water gun? I mean its still a "gun" and I mean when Mario shoots things, they can get all wet. Oh and I mean it could double as a cleaning tool as well, because water cleans things. Now THATS a game idea.
And thats why Intelectual Property is bad: is stop innovation and reimagination virtues.
Suda is basically greatest person since Chuck Norris.
This just screams for a homebrew PC game.
Youtube: Super Mario Fusion
Goddamn I love Suda. He's the man.
I'm just pumped you guys didn't call Suda 51 a "punk-rock game designer." That's the lamest cliche I've seen tossed around in a while.
@ nintend0nick:
Bingo.
If Mario had guns... what would Bowser have? Meat cleavers? Peach in leather?
It's all so messed up.
...my preorder is waiting.
@ purplehanz:
Is that supposed to be sarcastic because if not you are not my friend anymore.
I always thought the Zelda series would be a great way for Nintendo to venture into a older demographic.
@VileMethoD:
as playing with guns makes you a "man"?
@fuchikoma: Haha, nice.
Mario needs a gun like I need a meth addiction...
I'd love to make a futuristic zelda game with Link being a female and Zelda being a guy... so it'd be like a different dimension with set in the future. Oh and Ganandorf is a giant rock.
Bring it Suda a Super Mario Parody in your unique styling would be fun. We know there would never be a real sanction Mario like that. But I really liked Conkers Bad Fur Day when they decided to make it mature I don't think it would have been near as good without the humor. Don't get me wrong a game does not have to be mature to be fun but a game can be mature and be fun.