A mushroom with some bite.
If you have ever thought even remotely deeply about the reality of the Super Mario universe (which we wouldn’t recommend doing, seriously), then you might have bumped up against the most simple of questions: why does Mario get hurt when a Goomba hits him? As it turns out, this is something that Miyamoto was asked back in the days of the NES, and only with Super Mario Bros. Wonder, has Nintendo managed to visualise the reason.
According to a new ‘Ask the Developer‘ interview that Nintendo has published today, Miyamoto’s answer back then was because the Goombas bite Mario on impact (at least, that’s the way that Wonder’s art director, Masanobu Sato remembers it), and so the Wonder developers decided to add an animation into the upcoming platformer to make this statement a reality.
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