Yknow, it's weird. Why is it the most influential video game character is a weird mish mash of random nonsensical ideas...

>Just a plumber guy

Nintendo has retconned even that, actually. They said Mario isn’t actually a plumber anymore, he’s an “adventurer”.

He still is, along with many jobs.

They memed you with masonic references that people were conditioned to recognize positively at the time, and now has the benefit of inertia from nostalgia. You could tell yourself it was for a different reason but you'd be wrong.

Doki doki panic never became, nor ever could become a popular franchise despite having identical mechanics to mario 2.

A fat, working class Italian-American plumber from boston would be a far better protagonist for a movie-game than any of the generic, cocky, sarcastic douchebags that Sony usually has.

>free mason nintendo schizo strikes again
based unmedicated schizo, post the image again, you know the one

>boston
I meant Brooklyn, don't flay me alive New York anons.

mario is fucking cringe and an objectively terrible game

He's an absurdist character that people only accept because he's always been here, and when he was first created, games didn't need deep stories. Anything goes in the 80s

You know how Shiggy said "I treat the Mario cast like actors" to describe how they can be adapted into multiple situations and why literally trying to kill Mario or force Peach to marry him against her will doesn't keep Bowser from being invited to play sports or go go-karting, because longterm canon doesn't matter and they're there to play the roles of hero, love interest, villain, etc.?
And autists somehow literally interpreted that as "every Mario game is a stage play"

That's what that was, that was retards reading too much into a joke Nintendo of Japan made about how Mario and Luigi haven't done any plumbing in a while and somehow interpreted it as "Mario is no longer a plumber. We have always been at war with Eastasia."

Anyway here are his official main jobs per Nintendo
>Plumber
>Doctor
>Racer
>Martial Artist
>Professional Baseball Player
>Soccer Player
>Basketball Player

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Enlighten me. What do you like about mario besides muh-chanics? Hard mode: try not to sound like a schizo yourself as you try to explain any other element of this game.

Simplicity.
>Haha moustache man go boing

its fun

Shut up

>Mario is inspired by the classic heroes of animation like Mickey Mouse and Popeye(indeed, Donkey Kong is a product of Nintendo temporarily losing the Popeye license)
>a blue collar laborer who could find himself in multiple jobs, from carpenter to plumber to doctor
>has overalls so he could have different colored sleeves to demonstrate arm movement
>has a cap because it was easier to render than hair
>has a mustache to give definition to his nose
>throws fireballs because Shiggy wanted to give Mario a gun for SMB1 but then eventually retooled it into the fire flower(and averted a timeline where Mario canonically empties a 1911 into Bowser)

The TF2 cast are functionally Mario's 3D equivalent.
>more durable classes like the Soldier and Heavy are wider and have bigger guns with distinctive silhouettes to demonstrate them being offensive threats
>lighter classes have smaller, leaner builds
>every character's outfit and personality clues into their role(Soldier's classic soldier coat and classic WW2 sergeant routine, the pyro's asbestos suit, etc.)
>even the maps focus on the warm colors and rustic aesthetic of the RED side vs the cool, industrialized aesthetic of BLU to demonstrate to the player where they are on the map relative to each side, especially if they just took a teleporter

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no one cares

imagine writing this much about fucking mario games lmfao

because contrary to what sub room temp IQ shitposters think it's actually really hard to follow nintendo's bottom up design philosophy and it's much easier to write retarded netflix special tier stories, use mocapped third rate celebrities and slap mundane mechanics at the last second to create your new "innovative" AAA IP.

gameplay is king, everything else exists to serve and enhance gameplay
if it doesn't, there's a very good chance the game is shit

iconic and unique character design. That alone is more important than background or narrative, just take Mikey Mouse for an example.

Call me when he and peach actually hold hands

timing is also important as hell
i think both design are quite simplistic (doesn't mean it's bad) but just enough flair to be iconic
and with the timing, one basically started the cartoon industry and one basically revived and saved the video game industry

It takes a touch of genius and genuine maturity to appreciate truly fun things, let alone make them. I personally don't have anything against AAA mo-capped movie games but to instantly equate them with being more "mature" or "engaging" because of their "realistic depictions of XYZ scenario" is downright retarded.

babies are delivered via crane, this is why bowser jr doesn't have a mother.

Mario is a one note joke who was never intended to appear in more than one game. His visual design elements were decided in part because of system spec limitations and chosen for clarity and gameplay reasons like his overall which defined his arms from his body more clearly on 8 bit hardware. the team who designed the first Mario games was very small and most of the people on the team weren't visual artists or writers of any kind. The music was written by a real composer though, which can't be said about Atari era games where the music was created by non-musicians

That shitty movie had a great thing going before it turned into a mario movie. Sleazy plumber trying his best to be the father his younger brother never had.

mario is a plumber that lives in a phantasy world with castles and weird mushroom people ruled by a human blonde girl, witha turtle-dragon hybrid enemy and whatever the fuck goombas are