I still can't believe this is real

Just how the FUCK did it evade the mandate? Are they exclusively lenient with Next Level Games or something?

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It didn't. Kremlings are gone.

now you know the truth: the "mandate" is bullshit peddled by Paperfags. Paper Mario got soulless because the director and devs got lazy, not due to some made up mandate by a single executive producer

They literally haven't used them in fifteen years. Why the fuck would they bring them back just for a small role in a mario spin off gane. Stop being autistic.

The mandate isn't as strict as paperfaggots believe.

Remember what they took from us!

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Kill yourself scaley.

mario if he american

Game is literally unplayable until our girl is confirmed

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I feel like they impressed Nintendo enough that Nintendo isn't crawling up their ass about things they normally get upset about. Wasn't Nintendo interested in doing Pixar-like stuff with Mario anyways? Luigi's Mansion 3 is basically that, so clearly Next Level Games did something good enough to leave them alone and let them do their thing.

I dunno, maybe that's just a retarded guess, but I think the 1000 year old dragons leading Nintendo right now are into their work.

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We won

Next Level is actually smart about dealing with any mandates. Same deal happened with Luigi's Mansion 3.

But we got Boom Booms in their place which is honestly pretty based considering how infrequently they ever get used in the sports spinoffs. Kremlings have actually been in more Mario sports games than Boom Boom has.

Why the fuck is he kicking a futbol?

Its over....

What else should he be kicking, your nuts?

It's a lot more toothless compared to the originals

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>mandate

qrd for a non-schizo?

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did she just fart?

I'm so mad it's footsies again instead of gridiron.

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People are upset at how fucking boring Paper Mario's been with the Mario universe for the last several games. Tanabe came out and said "We can't make unique character designs meant to fit in the Mushroom Kingdom" which seems like it falls in line with how utterly sterilized the franchise became somewhere around 2008-ish onwards, except other spinoffs are still getting around this and finding ways to have fun with the cast and setting just fine, while Paper Mario continues to spam generic Toads with little to no creativity ad infinitum.