The dots on the side made me think it could be an early concept for Arceus, and the dots got moved to his rings, but Landorus fits, too. Or it could be like that Latias/Blaziken design that got separated into two Pokemon at some point in development. Gotta say, I also love that early Regigigas look
Landorus T was so cancer to the meta it time traveled back in time just to be put into the previous Gen
it's dex number and other shit apparently corresponds to Garintina for some reason, this is beta arceus
I would have assumed that thing was Giratina, being a blank void, which was Giratina's thing, right? Anti-matter?
Link was in Mario Kart longer than I thought.
I wonder if all those gardening and bicycling photos were taken by Miyamoto himself. The Wii era was the peak of indulging his asinine hobbies.
Between this and what he did to Paper Mario he's rivaling George Lucas and Jk Rowling for creators screwing up their own creations.
I would really, really be surprised if they cut 2P from Mario 64 just because Miyamoto said "haha I don't like it".
In an interview about multiplayer in Mario games Miyamoto spoke about being excited a test for Super Mario 64 multiplayer worked. He specifically mentioned Mario and Luigi going into the castle and meeting up in a corridor. He was all in for Luigi, but it was too hard to implement. Multiplayer was cut due to technical limitations relating to the complexity of the levels, and they chose making the courses more complex over having a 2P mode. (the Iwata Asks where a game dev talks about it)
Those stories were almost certainly true and really shouldn't have been doubted, I mean why would Miyamoto lie about something like that on an Iwata Asks? And, in addition to the stuff in TCRF, there's also a little more in the release version that wasn't written down publicly, namely related to remnants of the two player camera system (and how it pointed to you being able to be in different levels?) Either way, that stuff is mere scraps on the floor compared to the feast we have now.
I think a lot of suff was cut out of SM64 because the entire system launch was hinging on the game being completed. So a ton of stuff actually planned had to be scrapped. Who knows what game we would have gotten if Nintendo let Miyamotto do whatever.
Mario 64 is a classic and the development of OOT is really Miyamotto going off the rails. I mean, there was supposed to be a Dating Sim aspect to the game at one point.
What’s most interesting to me about Giratina is those orbs along its sides. Red, Pink and Blue are associated with final Giratina, Palkia, and Dialga - perhaps Gira was originally an internal Trio Master.
