Thursday, October 19, 2023

Super Mario Bros. Wonder originally included Tsundere live commentary, because why not?

It might surprise you to learn that one of the features that ended up being cut from Super Mario Bros. Wonder was live commentary, which, in a rather amusing twist, came with an optional Tsundere variant.

This interesting little nugget was revealed in an official interview with several of the game’s developers (thanks, Nintendo Everything), with Game Designer Koichi Hayashida saying that the team spent around six months seriously working on live commentary for the game. By the sounds of it, if you left it on the default settings, the narration would have been provided by a newsreader-style voice and reacted to the action going on in your playthrough.

That said, as director Shiro Mouri goes on to reveal in the interview, an optional Tsundere version of the commentary was also developed, and apparently went down quite well among playtesters.

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