Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Peach & Daisy: Double Dashing

So, imagine this. A perfect game movie, which is mostly fan service, but can still appeal to an audience the movie is targeted at. Sounds impossible? Not really, it's only hard to do. But I have the perfect idea for a game movie, which would at least cater to the fans of the games, and maybe even the company.

We all know that the Mario series often use refferences outside the Marioverse, like adding a Samus or a Link cameo. Nintendo often does that in many Nintendo games by the way, and maybe that's how the Super Smash Bros. series came to life. But there is one series in particular, within the Marioverse, which uses every in-joke possible, or at least tries: the Mario RPGs. While I haven't played them at all, I do know they contain these in-jokes and outside refferences in general. In particular the Mario & Luigi series.

So, what would be the best idea for a game movie? We all know the previous Mario movie project failed horribly. So, why try it again? Well, first off, we always want to see the back story of the characters, while the Mario series don't need an introduction. Second, people grow sick of Mario. They want another hero to rise. So, when you combine these two demands, what do you get?

Enter the following teaser.

"They are ordinary princesses, often in need of saving."

"This time they're double dashing."

The movie starts out with Peach, who is about to get kidnapped by Bowser, when Daisy rushes in, saying there will be a new Double Dash! tournament. While Peach gets left behind by Bowser at Peach's castle (racing is way more important than kidnapping princesses), Peach and Daisy both get ready for their preparations of the racing tournament. Since this year there are a lot more applications, they need to make sure they get trough the preliminaries. But while every hero and villain is prepairing for the Double Dash! tournament, a new force is rising to disrupt the tournament. Or is it a new force?

The movie will mainly focus on Peach and Daisy. During the movie they get sidetracked by this force. On one occasion the princesses need to go to the Star Haven, where the Star Rod got missing. They search for a while, but when finally finding it and arriving at the spot, they find the Star Rod at the proper place. So when the princesses wonder what the rod they found is, a pink blog tugs on Daisy's dress and takes back the star rod. Only Nintendoids get this joke.

And there will be many other refferences and jokes. Hopefully Nintendo listens to this idea, because I really want it to happen. Nintendo, do your Google stuff!

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