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Post by Yoshi Master on Jun 14, 2005 15:42:28 GMT -5
The Switch Palaces are mysterious and strange. Same for the switch blocks. There use in SMW is to create specifically colored ! blocks in the dotted lines. The gray switch blocks turn the enimies into gray coins.
The normal P ( power ) switches changes blocks into Coins and vice-versa. Also makes question blocks and Coins appear in certain areas.
In Yoshi's Island the Swtich Blocks can make red ! blocks appear but can be reused. And the blocks dissapear after a few seconds, leaving the dotted lines.
How come the switches in SMW where never pushed before?
The Swtich Palaces ( later erected after Yoshi's Island's games timeline ) switches where probably only to be used at desperate times. The switches probably permanetly making the ! blocks appear. Why the reusable switch blocks left I don't know. Comments?
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Post by Claws on Jun 14, 2005 18:56:29 GMT -5
I'm thinking the reusable ones are a result of inferior technology. When they learned how to create switches that permanently changed dotted lines into blocks, they left off using the temporary ones.
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Post by Yoshi Master on Jun 14, 2005 20:54:54 GMT -5
The temporary switches are from the past, never to be seen again, while the permanete switches replaced them.
And the switch palaces should have some significance. Just some really cool thing needs to tie it together with the rest of the game. Same for Bowser stealing some Yoshi's. It needs a plot!
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Post by Claws on Jun 19, 2005 22:07:58 GMT -5
Maybe they're a last line of defense (since they usually contain power-ups) only to be used in emergencies, but when Bowser took over Dinosaur Land, the inhabitants didn't have enough to time to activate the switch at the switch palace. This is why Mario had to.
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Post by Yoshi Master on Jun 20, 2005 18:34:05 GMT -5
Hmm, that's good.
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Post by Kamikaze Koopa on Jul 10, 2005 23:50:55 GMT -5
I like the last line of defense theory. The switches that activated blocks you could walk on probably served as emergency escape routes in times of trouble. Now the question is, who created them? We don't see any particularly intelligent natives on the Dinosaur Islands, do we? So somebody had to have inhabited the islands between the time that Yoshi's Island and Super Mario World took place. And I highly doubt it was the Yoshis because, despite their obviouse intelligence, they've never shown any particular familiarity with modern technology. The most we've ever seen are small villages containing wooden structures and not much else. Their societies seem to resemble those of traditional Native American tribes, only slightly more industrious (I'm not sure if any Native American tribes ever attempted to build bridges, like the Yoshis did).
And the stolen Yoshis were probably just a result of an attempt at forced slave labor.
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Post by Yoshi Master on Jul 11, 2005 18:52:33 GMT -5
The switch blocks hardly seem like modern technology, more like magic. The blocks don't have any gears or anything and magic is best to describe how the solidification worked so I geuss Yoshi's could do it. And magikoopas seem native to Donisaur land.
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Post by Kamikaze Koopa on Jul 11, 2005 19:34:14 GMT -5
Hmmm, perhaps you're right about the magic. Even so, it doesn't seem like it would have been a Yoshi's doing. We've never seen any evidence in the past that Yoshi's are fluent with magic, or that they can even use it at all.
What makes you say Magikoopas are native to the Dinosaur Islands?
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Post by Yoshi Master on Jul 11, 2005 22:55:31 GMT -5
Besides with Bowser or any other Bowser influenced thing magikoopas have never been anywhere else.
Crap wait... in Paper Mario they where always teamed up with enemys....
Well....
Uh...
SMW was the first game they appeared in so... ah just forget it. It was a good try though.
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Post by Kamikaze Koopa on Jul 11, 2005 23:15:33 GMT -5
Hate to burst your bubble, but they were in SMRPG and M&L:SS too.
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Post by Yoshi Master on Jul 12, 2005 15:58:02 GMT -5
Yeah my bad.
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Post by Claws on Jul 13, 2005 19:19:03 GMT -5
They do seem a lot like magic, but it's possible they could be technology. We've seen the floating dotted lines. Maybe the switch palaces could be connected wirelessly with these dotted lines. When flattened, the switches emit waves that tell the micro-technology in the dotted lines to form an item box. I don't know.
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Post by Kamikaze Koopa on Jul 13, 2005 21:43:40 GMT -5
I'm thinking that viewing the thing in 3-Dimensions, it would probably look like the boxes in SM64 did. In other words, basically an image of the box, only translucent and intangible. That definately seems like the work of magic. Even if it didn't look like that, it would still have to be a cube of dotted lines floating in mid-air. Unless there were a holo-projecting emitting that image 24/7 for who knows how long, that doesn't seem like that works of technology.
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Post by Claws on Jul 14, 2005 13:12:53 GMT -5
Yeah, I guess you're right.
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Post by Kamikaze Koopa on Jul 21, 2005 21:48:22 GMT -5
So who do you think built them? Perhaps the ancient race of super beans mentioned in M&L: SS?
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Post by Yoshi Master on Jul 25, 2005 19:32:50 GMT -5
Arn't we talking about this same exact thing in some other thread?
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Post by Kamikaze Koopa on Jul 25, 2005 22:00:42 GMT -5
We are, at that. Maybe I should make a new thread dedicated to it so we have a single place to talk about it.
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