#3d maze screensaver mario series#

PICO-8 > Cartridges CC raycast screensaver. Then for the different zones you'd look to OOT's dungeon design, Mario 64's platforming design, then maybe you look to OOT and MegaMan Legends for gameplay & controls? Obviously over 20 years of hindsight is a helluva thing to have and I know I'm going on a bit of a tangent here but it's still just weird that seemingly not even something like a Metroid 64 tech demo similar to this Zelda tech demo ever even happened. 3D Maze by Eiyeron 10 months ago :: Mot replied 10 months ago. If possible you would probably want to add some enemies and platforming challenges to the hub but I think it all works or at least makes sense on paper. Replace the castle with caverns, the Mario 64 doors with Metroid style doors you shoot, and replace the paintings with elevators. I bring this up because I think Mario 64's centralized hub approach maps pretty cleanly to Metroid.

What's weird is I can get where they're coming from but after games like Mario 64, OOT, MegaMan Legends, etc have launched I feel like it becomes much easier to imagine what a Metroid 64 would look like. And Sakamoto has even commented in an interview on Nintendo wanting a Metroid for the N64 but he just looked at the controller and basically said he didn't know what to do with it and according to him they even approached a western studio (I have to imagine it was Iguana) and they were similarly stumped.

#3d maze screensaver mario series#

The only Nintendo platforms the series has skipped is N64, DS and WiiU but you could at least play Metroid games on the DS and WiiU and the DS even had Dread planned for it but the N64 just had nothing which is so weird. It's always so weird to think Metroid just completely skipped the N64. I guess you could argue the hub world would fill that role but I think it would be a very different thing really. One issue with this is in a way it would be a Zelda game without a traditional Zelda overworld map. The centralized hub approach Nintendo used for Mario 64 and apply it to Zelda makes some sense.