I Fixed Mario's WORST Character Designs

today I'm going to fix Mario's worst character designs from obese fungi to sentient Cutlery Nintendo's favorite unshaven Italian has always been surrounded by all manner of zany cartoon Critters except when he isn't for reasons unknown the big end decided some Mario games must avoid creating new character designs at all costs leading to such inspired newcast members as toad disembodied voice toad again toad but with bow tie and tape just tape so in the spirit of the new Paper Mario remake putting unique characters back in the spotlight we're reimagining the blandest most forgettable designs from this series past to match what if these boring old toads were something more interesting what if these generic and animate object characters had more than 3 seconds of thought put into their designs maybe we can finally make all of those jaded Paper Mario fans happy or at least put a sock in them for a while so as a wise man once said let's a go coming to you from beautiful downtown fortitude Valley it's the Harry gold show with your host Harry go good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the program now Paper Mario the Thousand-Year Door has long been a niche sacred cow for Millennial jrpg fans with a kink for purple amputees and its enduring appeal is owed not just to its multiple topless women and Princess Peach nude scenes but also in no small part to the wide array of colorful characters which populate its World more recent entries in the series however have opted to comprise their cast of not but a vast repetitive ocean of toads broken up only by a few disposable floating Sidekicks and the occasional generic Mario baddy this kind of baddy not the other kind of baddy once upon a time a Jaun through a desert town would bring one face to face with Unique Designs tailored for sand sweat and petroleum based oligarchy yet the series last entur the origami King instead populated its own Aid ber with plain vanilla off the rack Snippets there's a red one and a blue one and a green one and a yellow one but they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same there's any number of directions they could have taken these dead eyed Hazmat gnomes which would have been more visually distinctive and aligned with the world's theming but who needs ambient when you can just get your doctor to prescribe you Nintendo's post 2010's Mario spin-off design Philosophy by the same token there's another town occupied solely by an old Mario adversary turned uninspired NPC the Monty moles while I get that ethnic homogeneity is a popular Pastime in Japan the result here is still as Bland as an Edge shear and lookalike contest the designs wouldn't even have to be anything that revolutionary on their own miners that look like miners who the think it but consistently seeding new characters throughout a game collectively builds a feeling of visual diversity so we don't feel like your lead designer was a photocopy machine it's not just the extras that are a little on the paint by numbers side around these parts either the origami King second chapter introduces the player to another soldier in Nintendo's war on coherent World building a ballerina named bero whose species is also called bero that may or may not be the same bero as all the other beros named bero instead of Simply xeroxing that big fleshy blow dryer for the tinth time this would have been a great opportunity to instead create an entirely new bero character Al together a new look a new personality a new Deluge of regrettable fan art we could have had it all though I must say the strangest choice of a lot was what Nintendo did with the origami Craftsman tell me what part of this design says Godlike power over life and death to you he can make paper figurines sentient he created Mario's sidekick and the game's main villain I know Thousand-Year doorf fans harp on the T many toads thing a lot but that game's Zed list extras had more thought poured into them than the most pivotal character and the origami King's entire plot we should be looking at not just a unique outfit but a fully personalized origami themed design unique pose unique expression unique lip upholstery the whole kitten Kaboodle and if toads are still just a little too unexciting for anyone we could look at an alternative species seeing as this man somehow birs living breathing origami by folding it kind of funny perhaps the shaman race of Mages and Mystics would be a suitable alternative and there's plenty more designs where those came from but first before we continue this episode of the Harry gold show was brought to you by Nord VPN hi Frank Phil you uh seem different today oh me H you're just imagining things these humans sure are Dopey ain't they Phil this your Frank I just hide sometimes I get caught by fishing scams you know where a scammer tricks you into handing over sensitive information by pretending to be someone you trust only a human could fall for something like that I guess you're right Frank want aone thanks Phil don't they realize that W VPN strap protection Pro feature can recognize malicious link and War them about dangerous websites gee I suppose not Frank this seems tougher than I expected Lord protection from malware need wash man the midle attacks and more right now you can get a huge discount with the PES of a 2year plan plus four extra months and a V for s a new e Serv is app for nor security why is Frank in such a hurry must have been something he ate grab nordvpn's exclusive deal using the link in the description it's risk-free with a 30-day money back guarantee it's not just the civilians who used to get Unique Designs in this series either starting with Super Mario RPG the first few Mario role playing games furnished our favorite monogrammed falsetto Enthusiast with an array of allies to Aid him in battle but after Super Mario for the the series diverged radically from the original formula stripping out a lot of features including partners and when they finally did come back in Mario origami King there were only four four of them half were yet more toads and all were blander than a bucket of lukewarm porridge I mean look naming your toad Chef zest te isn't exactly putting Nintendo in the running for any peeters but it beats looking at a toad professor and saying I don't know how about Professor toad there was a time where Paper Mario fans would have been thrilled to get a toad partner but with toad fatigue having taken its gruesome toll on the fandom psyche and the most papery partners of your being repackaged Mario enemies perhaps we should focus elsewhere in the franchises Rogues gallery seeing as the good professor's gimmick is digging the sensible choice would be someone who already shares a similar proclivity perhaps a Monty mole from the aforementioned mining town happens to have a professorship in archaeology and shy buff Impressions likewise a fresh new look for Captain T OD more brilliantly creative naming from the linguistic Wizards at Mario HQ would suggest something similarly seaf fairy seeing as a cheap cheap is already been done how about a blooper instead considering they're already noose proof kill Hall proof and couldn't walk the plank if they wanted to doubling that flabby head flipper as a captain's hat with tentacles forming a beard would give us the most OP pirate that ever buckled a swash kemik also presents a wasted opportunity in my indomitably humble opinion this is the same decrepit reptile that's been rattling around the franchise since the rock had hair but I think it would be more interesting to make this a new character entirely the trailer introduced him as a Magik Hooper that loves to clean which is never actually been a character trait of kamik before so instead what if this guy was Bowser's janitor I'd have him Sub in work wear for the usual robes fly around on a modern broom and face the world with patented minimum wage indifference and as for Bobby the bobom well I actually tackled this topic back when the origami King first came out with plans for a follow-up that never quite materialized with Paper Mario actually being somewhat topical again for the first time in years I figured this would be my last best chance to make use of the design sketches that have been Gathering virtual dust at the bottom of my ideas folder so if you want to see what Bobby would look like with an actual character design alongside a few other denisons of the origami King World check that video out and in fact some of the character designs from that video actually wound up in a fan-made mod the origami King refolded the links to all of these are as they say in the description the Elementals are actually a fascinatingly Innovative set of character designs in that they somehow found a whole new way to disappoint despite not being yet another regurgitated Mario minion these boss monsters are still just large faceless featureless personality free origami animals I've seen grade school math problems featuring more memorable characters than these interestingly the game does make clear that they looked like something else before being folded into these insipid figurines so even though Nintendo made damn sure you didn't get to see what that was we can have a go at filling in the blanks to give these four Elemental Animal Spirits full new designs we'd need to combine not just the animal in question and their a lot of element but the Mario art style itself the Earth Spirit is naturally the easiest to work with as there's about as much total shortage in the Mushroom Kingdom as there is a boo shortage at ComiCon I think that gives a pretty good idea of what this thing might conceivably look like nothing says Mario marine life quite like a comically redundant pair of goggles so that is a must for our water of Elemental the franchise is also more saturated with overgrown reptile than a Mark Zuckerberg fan cam so there's plenty of stylistic reference here too Birds on the other hand don't have so many options if we're looking for our fire Spirits basis on the upside if this gig doesn't work out with a little vinegar I'm sure she could make for a real memorable episode of hot ones the ice FAL is probably the trickiest one seeing as I think Mainline Mario has a grand total of one bare character maybe two if you place any stock in fanfiction about Foreman spike it seems Nintendo wasn't satisfied with the Recycled characters and plain upscaled enemies that comprised the boss fights of the last couple of paper Marios no those were simply not uninspired enough so on this front the origami King really takes the biscuit nothing quite says thrilling climactic battle like making your big bads a set of large featureless office supplies if the plot has the evil origami King turn stationary into his generals I think a better design approach would be to picture these objects as actual new characters such as we might have seen in paper Mario's gone by one possible approach would be to make a monster that resembles the stationary in question like I've done with the coloring pencils here now I've heard of a pencil skirt but this is [Music] ridiculous the original rubber band boss is the closest thing to a real design among these guys seeing as it wears a sort of home job wicker Man costume in expressive execution aside in principle having a design literally made out of the stationary is also a viable angle plus with the previous games featuring characters like grubber and tuba blubber this design gives us too good an opportunity to pass up yet another option would be going less literal filling the function of the stationary instead whole punches are a somewhat awkward visual to deal with so a character that bites holes in things might serve us better and nothing in Mario bites more than a piranha plant with the possible exception of Mario pinball land so along with those polka dots that never seem to go out of fashion in the Mushroom Kingdom kind of resembling punched holes I think we've got ourselves a pretty good fit a good fourth approach would be to have our character wield the stationary as a weapon like this Shy Guy swordsman and his comically oversized scissors I hope he doesn't plan on running with those then for the fifth approach I ran out of new approaches so here's approach number two again for the tape boss [Music] and that's our last word on redesigning characters from a Mario sub series with middling popularity at best we can only hope that come the next one Nintendo will finally actually give fans what they've been asking for for the last 20 years a daing Sim starring [Music] wonky let's play a game I'll draw someone famous and three people that guess who it is in the comments will get a shout out in the next episode if your guess last time was the twitch streamer asman gold no relation you are absolutely correct Zach's rule from the wheel of winners is the first three correct guesses to say something nice about the video diamond Bricks Built up a strong lead taking first place B21 was no Bel Lister snagging silver and novice turned out to be an expert claiming third well done everyone thanks for playing the intense eyes on this week's subject look so permanently miserable that these days they're frequently mistaken for a pair of Star Wars fans their nose is long and epic in proportions so much so that Dennis villain had to break it up into multiple parts and moreover those big old ears stick out and demand so much attention they could have come straight from the extinction Rebellion now who could this be if you know who that was let us know in the comments and if you enjoyed the video whack that subscribe button with your Hammer but this has been the Harry gold show so until next time stay safe and God bless [Music] a [Music] [Applause]

Channel: The Harry Gold Show

Views: 57,758

Keywords: miyamoto, Mario mandates, Paper Mario, Origami King, Nintendo Switch

Id: v7vhYilOxGM

Length: 13min 40sec (820 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 04 2024