Here you can experience real Mario Kart!
Editor’s note: This article is from the micro-channel public number “love child norm” (ID: ifanr) , Author: Huang Zhijian.
Since the announcement of the plan in 2016, Nintendo’s super park construction plan has been affecting the hearts of Nintendo fans around the world.
The launch of the “Super Nintendo World” that took 5 years to build at the beginning of the year was announced in the summer of this year, but it was repeatedly delayed due to the epidemic.
Finally, on October 13th, Nintendo stated that the Super Park will be open to tourists in the spring of 2021, and also unveiled the design of the park so that fans of the park can see the true face of the park in advance.
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Before Nintendo announced the construction of the “Super Nintendo World”, people were not surprised at the amusement park built around big IP, whether it was the industry giant Disney or Nintendo’s partner this time-Universal Studios Osaka. It is a leader in creating IP amusement parks.
As the first amusement park in the Nintendo IP Kingdom, whether “Super Nintendo World” can meet the expectations of Nintendo fans and park lovers all over the world, perhaps we can already get the news from the presentCheck it out.
Where is “Nintendo Super Park” super?
From the current Nintendo’s release of the park design drawings, you canIt can be seen that the “Super Nintendo World” will be composed of three areas, namely Peach Castle, Mushroom Kingdom and Kuba Castle which are very familiar to players.
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Different from the order in which the princess came to Peach Castle to rescue the princess after many hardships in the game, Peach Castle will be the first stop for tourists to enter the “Super Nintendo World”, and the way to enter the park is also very different. Mario feature-a huge green water pipe as the entrance!
In Kuba Castle and Mushroom Kingdom are the two main game facilities of “Super Nintendo World”. Visitors will play the exciting Mario Kart live-action version in Kuba Castle, while Mushroom Kingdom focuses on parent-child Yoshi’s ride for entertainment.
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Although there are still some indoor content in the park (such as the Mario Kart in the stadium) that has not yet been exposed, the outdoor panorama of “Nintendo Super Park” has been fully viewed by Japanese media with ultra-telephoto lenses and helicopter aerial photography.
As long as you like Mario games, you will be attracted by “Super Nintendo World” once you look at it. This is not a mere playground, it is more like a comparison of the Mario world that you entered in your childhood dreams. Now, it belongs to the dream world of every Nintendo player.
The green water pipe is more like a channel connecting two worlds. From the moment you walk into the water pipe and transport to the paradise, everything in the real world will be “Marioized”: the fairytale Biqi CityForts, billowing trees, green turtles walking around, and yellow question mark bricks everywhere.
The game elements that can be seen in the park are all moving, including the piranha that will stretch your mouth to bite you, the angry stone that will suddenly press down, the turtle shell that bounces after being stepped on, or Just like in the game, shiny gold coins that keep spinning by themselves.
Even if every element is moved by simple mechanical devices, this kind of sincere re-enactment of the game’s dynamics will always make you unconsciously deceive your brain: “These are all real, Mario It’s all true. Nintendo does not deceive me.”
In addition to restoring the visual elements of the game, “Super Nintendo World” also has many interactive elements. For example, the Nintendo bracelet announced at the press conference at the beginning of this year, after wearing it, you can hit the yellow question mark box with your hand to collect gold coins like Mario.
Visitors can download a Nintendo’s park app on their mobile phones. After the bracelet is bound to the app, the collected virtual gold coins can be exchanged for medals, and they can even compete with other tourists to compete for the top of the rankings.
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According to the equipment patents applied by Universal Studios, there are some collection elements in the park that are very promisingIt can be invisible, which is Nintendo’s best “hidden element”. It can only be discovered with the help of AR devices in the park. And this AR device is believed to be familiar to Mario Odyssey players. It is the “telescope” device used in the game!
Tourists can see small surprises hidden in all corners of the park with the help of “telescopes” with augmented reality technology, and more likely to see surprise eggs that are invisible to the naked eye. I can think of combining AR technology with a unique telescope treasure hunting game, and I can only say that Nintendo is really worthy of AR games.
Mario Kart will be the highlight
Speaking of Mario series games, in addition to the most classic Super Mario Bros. series, Mario Kart will be the most popular one in the Red Hat IP.
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Since the first game of Mario Kart was born in 1992, every game has been the escort of this generation of game consoles, so that in the list of the best 25 kart games selected by IGN, 8 Mario The racing series were all selected, among which the Mario Kart 8th Generation Deluxe Edition and Super Mario Kart won the first and second place in one fell swoop.
Drive a cartoon-painted go-kart through the prop box, get the golden invincible star to speed up and surpass the opponent, or use the turtle shell to shoot down the first place to win the championship. The rich props gameplay makes Mario Kart popular with players of all ages . It is worth cheering from all racers that now you can experience the excitement of racing in the “Super Nintendo World”.
Take a ride on a roller coaster with Mario elements? This perfunctory IP usage does not exist in “Super Nintendo World”. Nintendo said that Mario Kart will serve as an important game facility in the park, bringing players a unique amusement experience.
Alica Stella, editor of Olando Park Stop, speculates based on the relevant information released by Universal Studios that this realistic version of Mario Kart at Kuba Castle will likely be named “Mario Kart: Kuba Challenge” .
The basic mechanism of each race is double-track, and the car body will be fixed on the track, and compete with the opponent to see who is the real car god of Kuba Castle.
Universal Studios’ patents related to karts applied for in recent years
Kart is not completely fixed on the track, and its rear can swing freely, so it is very possible to reproduce the cool drifting action in the game during driving.
The scenes of each track are from the classic maps in the game, such as 13 scenes such as Twisted Mansion, Earthquake Volcano, Dolphin Cape or Rainbow Road. Players look at each of the classic scenery eras passing by Get full at once.
The rumored leak of Mario Kart test equipment Picture from: Andybiar
The most attractive part of this game is that it will be possible to use augmented reality technology to realize the item confrontation in Mario Kart! According to Nintendo’s patent application, players are likely to wear AR glasses before playing to obtain virtual props to fight against their opponents while racing.
According to the analysis of promotional materials currently released by Nintendo, mushrooms are obtained to make the kart speed up briefly, and the tracking turtle shell is thrown to force the opponent to stop. The gameplay in these games may now be implemented in the player’s hands through AR display technology.
Mario Racing Live is Nintendo’s latest real-world AR game
From the perspective of Nintendo’s latest Mario Kart Live, Nintendo can achieve a very good AR experience with just a few simple pieces of cardboard and the weak performance of the Switch, indicating that Nintendo is capable of using AR to add more to racing games The possibility of.
However, in this live-action Mario Kart car confrontation, whether AR glasses will be used as a game device in the end, or the screen will be used to achieve the AR effect like the Switch. There is no very accurate news to confirm.
It is certain that “Mario Kart: Kuba Challenge” will inherit the excellent tradition of high quality in the Mario Kart series and become one of the ace games of Universal Studios Osaka.
Something practical, such as Mario Cafe
Compared with the “Super Nintendo World”, which is constantly bouncing tickets, the Mario Café announced together has officially opened on October 16, and has now begun to receive tourists.
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Mario Café has the characteristics of an uncle plumber from the appearance and the products it sells. The Mario elements that can be seen everywhere in the sports store plus the American retro characters, all highlightSignificantly the “Nintendo Pro” status of Mario Cafe.
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Although it is called Mario Café, but because it has to take care of many children and customers, the drinks sold in Mario Café are not coffee, but fruit cream soda inspired by Mario, Luigi and Princess Peach water.
Each fruit cream soda is based on fruit juice in the color of the character. The red Mario uses strawberry juice, while Luigi and Princess Peach use kiwi juice and peach juice respectively.
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In addition, you can also buy two “hat shortbread” that represent Mario Bros.-a shortbread sandwich with cream and fruit sandwiched between a hat-shaped pancake. Whether you like red hats or Luigi hats (cough cough), visitors can be satisfied in the cafe.
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Next to the cafe is the surrounding shop of “Nintendo Superland”. Like Mario Cafe, this surrounding shop also uses Mario’s hat elements.
In addition to the red hats and Luigi hats of the same size, you can also buy many paradise exclusive peripherals, such as hat shapesMy wallet, a kettle with an enlarged mushroom shape, a T-shirt of Faith with Mario Logo and so on.
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It seems that Disney’s peripheral strategy has given Nintendo a great reminder that peripheral products will be the easiest and most effective way to realize IP. Nintendo has been actively opening official peripheral merchandise stores since 2019.
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In Shibuya, Tokyo, Nintendo opened a specialty store near Nintendo TOKYO, and then based on another popular IP Pokémon, it also opened a specialty store near Pokemon Center SHIBUYA in Shibuya. I believe that in the near future, we will witness the rise of a new surrounding kingdom.
To bring ACG’s work to reality, “collapse” is a word that fans can’t escape. Often when ACG works of many games come into reality, either due to insufficient funds or too strong sense of violation, there will always be varying degrees of collapse.
Fortunately, judging from the information so far, Nintendo will not disappoint the fans this time in carefully building a super park. If there is a sense of violation for Mario to walk into the real world, then create a game world for Mario and let us walk in.
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In addition to the construction of “Super Nintendo World” in Universal Studios in Osaka, Nintendo also plans to bring it to Universal Studios in Singapore, Hollywood and Orlando, but currently only Universal Studios Osaka has achieved a real landing.
Nintendo’s construction of a super park is not aimed at creating a super mobile game park. Rather than using IP to attract fans to the park, Nintendo uses the park to build an incredible game world for its fans. “Super Nintendo World” is more like another large game made by Nintendo, but this time you no longer need a controller.