He didn’t think it looked “like a Mario character”.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder has a certain wacky element about it compared to your average Mario game, and while the new Elephant power up for Mario has been welcomed with open arms by fans, Mario’s creator wasn’t quite as convinced when he first saw it.
As part of the latest press rounds promoting the game, the game’s director Shiro Mouri and producer Takashi Tezuka mentioned how there was an earlier phase during development where Shigeru Miyamoto questioned the look of Elephant Mario, but it was mostly because the design hadn’t been finalised.
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