I'm calling it now. Donkey Kong will kidnap her for the world's end boss and you'll have to scale towers and bars ala donkey Kong arcade to rescue her, maybe with some 2d direct arcade bits in there too.
I'm calling it now. Donkey Kong will kidnap her for the world's end boss and you'll have to scale towers and bars ala donkey Kong arcade to rescue her, maybe with some 2d direct arcade bits in there too.
I'm hoping for something like that. Pretty confident of there being a decent DK cameo in there.
The music, the city is full of references to it(Look at the O in the back ground of that tweet above) including the name of the City, Pauline. Also in shots of the E3 booth you could see street signs and one of them was "Cranky Ave" or road or something. There's just too much pointing to it for him not to show up.
Though it makes me wonder, does that mean Mario used to live/work in New Donk City?
I don't think it is.. I think it's just one place he can travel (the "human" world), as everywhere else is bonkers, and I think the idea is they are all equally bonkers in context of one another. If Mario's world was normal, New Donk City would be bananas. (See I can work in DK references too.)
Bringing in DK as the big bad would be nice, pitch it as a kind of King Kong style animal escaped from its captors plot and have him go rampaging through the various worlds after kidnapping Peach. Dont have to make DK into a full villain to do this either, nice face turn at the end as he was just misunderstood and trying to get home.