In a recent interview in Japanese gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu, Super Mario Bros. Wonder director, Shiro Mouri, revealed a little more about the character choices. When it came to the loveable Yoshi they were originally going to include the egg throwing mechanic, which Yoshi has had in previous adventures. However, they felt that this wasn’t a good design choice for the game after prototyping it, so they went with the invincibility option, which both Nabbit and Yoshi have, meaning they don’t take hits from enemies though they can’t use the game’s power-ups.
“As for Yoshi’s actions, I thought it would be better if he could throw eggs, so we tried to create a prototype and test it. However, it became hard to control, and to let first-time-players have fun, we decided the current way was the best.”
I really hate how you cant use the invincible characters as just normal characters and likewise i wish each character had their own, non invincibility traits like in Super Mario Bros 2.(higher luigi jump, peach float, let yoshi throw eggs and rideable by other players)
They should have just had a difficulty toggle that lets you decide if you want player 1 or 2 or both to have Normal or Beginner difficulty with the one just giving the invincibility to all the selectable characters instead of a few and Normal setting giving you access to non invincible characters each with a unique trait. Thats probably my biggest let down with Wonder is how you are locked out of using Yoshi or Nabbit if you want to play classically and everyone else is basically just the same character with no defining benefits that would make you consider swapping them between stages.
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