What art styles do you think should be featured in a Mario game?

Which art style do you think looks good to be featured in a Mario game?

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There are so many art styles in the Mario series. But there art styles that haven't been used yet. Which ones do you think that should be featured in a Mario game?

For me, I have got two that I want.

#1 on my list is the Ayami Kojima's artstyle (of post-Symphony of the Night Castlevania fame)

This artist is a total genius. She knows how to make things look realistic and appealing for all audiences.

Here are some samples of some of Ayami Kojima's work:

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#2 on my list is chibi art style

I have seen games such as Mega Man Powered Up on the PSP pull off such a great chibi art style. I really wish the Mario series could do that with a spinoff where the characters are all chibi.

Here is an example of what it could look like:

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Also if Peach ever does become playable, I would like there to be an option for her to have different outfits and hairstyles to choose from (much like Roll does in Mega Man Powered Up) and they can be unlockable and not DLC (unlike Roll's case in Mega Man Powered Up). Peach should have different movesets for each of her outfits.
 
Uh, I disagree on Kojima's artstyle, it REALLY doesn't fit Mario.

I'd like this particular art style to be featured in a 2D platformer at some point:

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It would be a nice break from the tired of the 2D New Super Mario Bros. artstyle and it looks great in a literal 2D environment, where New Super Mario Bros. refuses to evolve 3D tilesets.
 
While I like how Mario looks already I wouldn't be opposed to an animated look like what blof posted.
 
The anime art style that's used for Pokemon could look neat for the Mario series.
 
I think the best style for Mario would be

the one they already use.
 
Baby Luigi said:
Uh, I disagree on Kojima's artstyle, it REALLY doesn't fit Mario.

I'd like this particular art style to be featured in a 2D platformer at some point:
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It would be a nice break from the tired of the 2D New Super Mario Bros. artstyle and it looks great in a literal 2D environment, where New Super Mario Bros. refuses to evolve 3D tilesets.
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Mister Wu said:
but really, real-time vector art without vector animations or with way-more-than-decent vector animations might also be an interesting avenue to explore in my opinion
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Incidentally, we do both agree on the style we want ;)

P.S.: to clarify this post, the second that Baby Luigi posted is actually a vector art image present in the 2015 Mushroom Kingdom Calendar from Play Nintendo.
I'd be hardly surprised to know that actually most 2010-era hand drawn artwork and new hand-drawn artwork was made as vector art or at least vectorialized, which would make a really nice starting point.
 
vector art is also great for 2d games as well.

remember when Pokemon Black/White used horrendous zooming/camera effects on its sprites and when sprite rotations look horrible? Or whenever any game tries to increase sprite size and ends up looking incredibly horrendous? vector art will get rid of that and make camera zooming and rotating effects actually decent for once.

i'm not sure if games can support .svgs for sprites though since i don't think a single game has .svg graphics ripped. i could be mistaken though
 
I kinda would like to see a 2D Mario platformer done up in a similar style to Wario Land Shake it's sleek anime-esque art style.
 
Wow, this poll... >_>

I'd like to see Super Mario-Kun artstyle in one game to be honest.
 
yeah, y'know, you should elaborate on what a "paratroopaCx artstyle" (that user is from deviantart but i wouldn't be surprised if this information was news to you), a "Ruby Spears" artstyle

also, questions like these don't need polls at all. there's a ----ton of different artstyles out there. no need for an overly bloated poll that expands whenever you just heard of an obscure artstyle or whatever; you should remove it before it becomes an embarrassment
 
gritty ultra-realistic live-action mario

Baby Luigi said:
[flat mario]
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more seriously though, i think this could look really nice.

also, not really an art style so much as art elements, but i wish nintendo would try something like sunshine again, where the background was slightly out of focus and there was stuff like heat haze
 
So...Pwwnd isn't listening to my advice and is content with creating yet another embarrassing poll

I'll repeat what I said: asking what artstyles you want isn't appropriate polling material. There's a bunch of different artstyles out there, and the options are too diverse for it to be a good poll. Good polls have a more limited pool of options, tend to be very straightforward with their options, and they tend to be more focused and less of a bloated mess. You're going to add more and more until it becomes a sore sight to see, due to how many artstyles there are out there.

A tip is, the less amount of times you need to resort to "Other" to fit every other option not on there, the better your poll will be.
 
Baby Luigi said:
So...Pwwnd isn't listening to my advice and is content with creating yet another embarrassing poll

I'll repeat what I said: asking what artstyles you want isn't appropriate polling material. There's a bunch of different artstyles out there, and the options are too diverse for it to be a good poll. Good polls have a more limited pool of options, tend to be very straightforward with their options, and they tend to be more focused and less of a bloated mess. You're going to add more and more until it becomes a sore sight to see, due to how many artstyles there are out there.

A tip is, the less amount of times you need to resort to "Other" to fit every other option not on there, the better your poll will be.
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There, there. I complied with your advice.
 
I'll elaborate on what a Ruby Spears art style is. A Ruby Spears art style is something that is drawn by the duo of Joe Ruby and Ken Spears.

The paratroopaCx artstyle is something that is drawn by paratroopaCx who is a deviantArt user.
 
I think the Gothic art style could look nice.
 
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