Things you didn't notice before in Mario games

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Bowser has a cape in this image
 
That in Shy Guy Bazaar the Taj Mahal is a mushroom.

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It's brought up before that Donkey Kong has a bit of a paint on his wrists to cover up probably more obvious seams from UVs and whatnot. It's been shared on Supper Mario Broth, but I couldn't find the post.

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But Donkey Kong isn't the only one with quick paint-overs!

Mario is jealous that Luigi has a mouth that doesn't evidently look painted on AND there's no make-up smudge on the stache.

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And look at that, painted-on stuff near the knuckles to cover rendering flaws. What is going on at the rim of those gloves? And look at that cropping around the hands!
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Art aged like butter under studio light. If you think that's just some MarioWiki sourcing fan-made jank and didn't catch it, look at the official wallpaper using this art. The poor cropping and paint-over's still there!
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You're supposed to set an example, Mario! Why don't you have an actual mouth?

Anyway Mario Party 4 isn't wholly artistically bankrupt. I know we've ripped on its opening cutscene animation and its poorly aged renders, but it's capable of nice images
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And to be fair, we wouldn't be able to spot most of those errors and paint-jobs because those renders were always meant to be viewed at lower resolutions, such as instruction booklets (beats me about full-sized wallpapers though). We wouldn't really spot a lot of these if we weren't given high-res versions of those images. Well, except for the cropping around the gloves; that's a mistake that could've been corrected.
 
the gamecube mario parties never looked good.
 
Aesthetically, yeah, the Mario Party games had a big step up in quality since Mario Party 9. Since then, I'd consider the model quality to be better than at least their contemporary Mario Karts. The animations were also a big improvement in Mario Party 9; they could actually pass off as animation compared to whatever that jank that was in the GCN ones (Bowser stiffly stomping, Donkey Kong's beating his chest not looking natural). There's a lot of jaggy on the character models too; it's really evident when they open the genie bottle in Mario Party 4.

That being said, while I don't consider the parties to be blow away beautiful, the set pieces do look pretty pleasant. I like the way Faire Square looks for instance.
 
Mario Party 8 ran at 30 fps, which was such a major downgrade to pretty much the rest of the Mario Party titles.

Also, no widescreen support meant you have ugly borders for like 80% of the game.

Seriously what were they thinking back then?
 
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This doesn't look bad tbh

and Noshi is there. Hi, Noshi.
 
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i remember a convo on mp8 on a discord a few weeks (i think) ago and people were saying how it just looks post apocalyptic and how a lot of it seems to take place in some sort of wastelands. and i swear its true it really does look like that
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whats up with the dull realistic enviroment textures everywhere this is just so unlike mario.. and whats also off about this in particular is how it looks like a bright and sunny enviroment but the shadows are just. black. whereas in the sun outside irl youd see the shadows are more blue
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watch out for Yoshi on da Flat Disc Textured Like The Moon, Floating In The Middle Of Nowhere
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but not all of it is bad? i do think the sky looks pretty here at least. and yeah that board in the previous reply also looks pretty nice
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Yeah, one thing we all noticed was that Mario Party 9's set pieces are definitely less generic. People brought up the environment in Mario Party 9 to dock on its theming for... being Mario? Oh no, just New Super Mario Bros.. Just look at the background grass scenery of this

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And then Mario Party 8
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Or Mario Party 9 snow
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Then Mario Party 8
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ZelenPixel said:
whats up with the dull realistic enviroment textures everywhere this is just so unlike mario.. and whats also off about this in particular is how it looks like a bright and sunny enviroment but the shadows are just. black. whereas in the sun outside irl youd see the shadows are more blue
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Rendering shadows realistically (i.e. soft) is VERY difficult if not graphics intensive, due to how light works. If not baked on a texture (ambient occlusion texture for instance), shadows are going generally be hard and uniform. You see this also in highly lit environments in later games

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i mean i was mostly talking about the shadow color. having the shadows be blue rather than black is also just more lively and colorful in general
 
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