The canonocity of SMStrikers

[Toomai]

Okay, this has been nagging at me. I accept most sports games as canon. However, the sheer technology level of SMStrikers (electric field, court in space, secret character, etc.), the attitude/visual of the characters, and the general brutality cause even me to think of rejecting it. I know this is because Nintendo didn't make the game. Any thoughts about accepting/rejecting this game?

[Claws]

Different as it may be, I don't think we should reject what is clearly a Mario game, even though it may not be one in spirit.

But I always say that.

[Toomai]

claws said:

But I always say that.

I do too, but to me SMStrikers is just too much.

[PDoogan]

The technology of this game doesn't make it too "advanced", perhaps we just don't know the full extent of Mushroom World technology. In the Mario games, we only get a small glimpse of what life is like in the Mario universe. That doesn't mean there aren't other events taking place that have nothing to do with Mario, they may just be more advanced then we assumed.

As for the whole brutality issue, I think it's a nice charge from the ordinary. I did fell I was getting rather sick of the whole "lollipops and rainbows" style of the Mario Party games. This seems to be a bit more realistic, Having the characters show real emotions besides "Yay! I won!" or "Aww, I lost".

[L.D.]

that and the x-nauts and other mario RPG characters showed advanced technology.

also PMTTYD IS a dark game,for the mario series anyway(I figured the gallows in rougeport gave that away

[Kamikaze Koopa]

The way I see it, M&L:SS was written specifically to be as humurous as possible, so the door should swing both ways; there can also be a game that's made to be "brutal" and serious. Even if it's about soccer...

[Claws]

The realism could also attract people different from the people a Mario Party game attracts, and that can only be a good thing for the Marioverse.