In February of this year, Nintendo announced at a face-to-face meeting that “Mario Strikers: Battle League” will be launched on the NS platform in June, the latest in Nintendo’s traditional “Mario Soccer” series. Of course, the football game genre has been in a deep quagmire recently. Some masterpieces for more than 20 years have been so badly criticized that they cannot even keep their names after more than 20 years. But as we all know, the pursuit of the Mario Soccer series is not entirely football itself.
The excitement of Mario Soccer veterans was beyond words after the announcement of Mario Strikers: Battle League. Judging from the trailer, the gameplay of the game is loyal to the essence of the previous game, which also makes players very satisfied. But there is only one problem that old players are worried about, that is, when the game was announced in February, everyone did not see the figure of Princess Chrysanthemum in the trailer, so they had to make up some reasons to comfort themselves, such as the character model is not perfect, it has not arrived yet. when it’s announced.
Earlier this month, Nintendo Europe Twitter began to announce the ten playable characters for the game, and players’ fears were finally confirmed: there is no Princess Chrysanthemum among them. Over the past week, social media messages about the game have been inundated with protests and memes from players.
Before the game was released, due to incomplete information, the negative emotions of players were often accidental injuries. But in this game, the player’s emotions are understandable. In Mario Soccer, what players want to see is inheritance. Princess Chrysanthemum can be selected in “Mario Soccer” on the GC platform and “Mario Soccer: Passionate” on the Wii platform. A representative from the Princess Chrysanthemum fan site (yes, she also has a fan site) introduced that the “Mario Soccer” series is the platform where Princess Chrysanthemum’s character shines the most, and this influence has also penetrated into other games, such as “Mario Soccer”. Mario Tennis and Mario Golf. Now she is absent in “Mario Fighting Striker: Battle League”, which is very baffling.
When the heat of the matter was about to cool, Nintendo rushed out and poured another oil. In Nintendo’s latest five-minute gameplay preview video for Mario Strikers: Battle League, there’s a screen showing the starting roster for Battle League. In the list we can see Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Valluigi, and even the newcomer Rogeta, while the much-voiced Princess Daisy is still missing.
This video once again aroused the dissatisfaction of the fans of Princess Chrysanthemum, especially in the case that even Luo Jieta had the opportunity to appear, but as a resident character of the series was deleted instead, this operation attracted a lot of negative feedback.
At present, the absence of Princess Chrysanthemum has become a definite fact, but I don’t know if Nintendo has plans to supplement the characters through after-sales free updates or paid DLC that they are very keen on. Nintendo has not announced plans for “Mario Soccer: Passionate”, but from another perspective, the current attitude of Princess Chrysanthemum fans is basically to send money to Nintendo’s door.
Nintendo has yet to comment on this.
