Super Mario: Shatters Of A Soul

PRESTORY

The Mushroom Kingdom's yearly Leaf Festival will be taking place in two days. Princess Peach invited Mario to the castle, waiting for his appearance.
Toadsworth is organizing the festival. He takes a look at his to-do list and gets a shock: NO GOLDEN LEAVES?!? In his panic, he runs to Princess Peach, complaining about the work not being done yet.

Meanwhile, Mario has also arrived. Without thinking, Toadsworth orders Mario to go find some golden leaves. In the fall season of the Mushroom Kingdom, the trees in the eastern woods sometimes carry golden leaves. No one knows why, but they do carry them. So Mario went out to the eastern woods, unaware of what was going to happen...

Arriving at the forest, Mario starts to search for golden leaves. He doesn't even know where to find them, so he just walks deeper into the forest, looking for anything shiny. Since it's night, it won't be hard to find them, he thinks to himself. After half an hour of unsuccessful research, it's getting even worse: Rain. Lightnings. While running back all the way, trying to find a house or something to protect him, he finds an old mansion. It sure looks spooky, but it's better than standing outside and getting wet, or even worse, getting hit by a lightning.

Since he hasn't got anything better to do, he goes inside the mansion. He doesn't know why there would be a mansion lost inside the woods, so maybe it's just a leftover of earlier times, so no one should be living here, he thinks to himself while going from room to room. The lights are flickering, even if Mario doesn't know where they actually come from. Meanwhile, the storm has also stopped. Actually, he should have been on his way out to the forest finding golden leaves again, though he feels that this mansion has something special to it. He enters the next room, which is actually the garden of the mansion. There, he finds exactly what he needed. A tree with the largest leaf he's ever seen. Plus......what the? A GOLDEN LEAF?!?

Could it get even better? He tries to grab the leaf, but.... just as he touches it, it disappears and a golden glow surrounds Mario for some time, until it disappears. Mario decides to go outside. He doesn't know how he's going to tell this to the princess. Also, even more important - where to take the golden leaves from? He's already wasted pretty much time because of the storm. He'd get screwed if he'd take too long to get the leaves. Mainly because Toadsworth's somewhat impatient. On the other hand, the Leaf Festival will be taking place in two days - finding the leaves is part one. Decorating the castle using them is part 2, which obviously could take some time. And what can be worse than a ruined party?

As he goes back to the castle, he hears some stomp-like sounds from a deeper part of the forest. He knows he should focus on collecting the leaves, but he can't just ignore that. He just KNOWS that someone needs his help. So he tried to find the place where the weird sounds are originating from......

Then, suddenly something flies to ground right in front of his eyes. It looks somewhat like a cat. Sure, cats are quite common, but ones that are flying at the ground at an amazing speed......in between half a second the cat jumps into the air. Where it was lying, there now is another creature. Everything just was too fast to see what was actually happening. Mario turned around because he heard another weird sound behind him, but it was too late: the other creature opened a portal, both the cat and Mario got sucked in it.

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............Mario awakes, and finds himself inside a mansion. The same mansion as before? Doesn't matter, he has to get back to the castle. He goes outside and - what the? The whole mansion is floating on a platform in mid-air. I'm surely NOT going to find out if this is a dream by jumping down there, Mario thinks to himself. So he doesn't have a chance except going deeper inside the mansion......
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That's it about the storyline of the game. I hope you already got somewhat interested in it now.
So, after 1 year of production and keeping the whole project a secret.......I am pround to present you Team Dimensional's newest project - Mario's Mansion!

The game is, as you can hardly miss, about Mario being sent off to the eastern forest to find golden leaves as decoration for the Leaf Festival of the Mushroom Kingdom.
While looking for them, he accidentally gets involved in a fight with two mysterious creatures.
.......and that's all I'm telling you right now. Note that both of the "creatures" will be mentioned in the videos, though.

About the game:

- An actual story that isn't "the princess got kidnapped".
- will feature a total of 11 areas (we're calling it areas, not worlds.), each being represented in 3 stories plus 4 areas in the secret story. Makes a total of 37 areas to explore. There are no levels, each area has a different gameplay length.
- Platformer RPG battle style like Super Paper Mario.
- Team Dimensional characters as partners.
- An opposing team to Team Dimensional.
- Not the typical boring RPG platformer. This game actually has something special to its gameplay, which will be announced when time comes. Though I can tell it's related to the big golden leaf and the partners.
- DOOFUSES.


Note that the demo release is set to somewhen that isn't in the near future. We're currently lacking members, (there's a total of 1 people working at the game actively, this person being me) so don't ask when the demo is going to be released. You can speed it up by helping us out, though.


Now I won't keep you waiting any longer and just show you the videos.
The Basement - Area 1 Part 1
The Basement - Area 1 Part 2
(Note that you most likely won't get what's going on in the cutscenes as it's related to the prestory)



Where's my demo?
It exists, and it consists mostly of black squares.
1) You want the demo? Thank you for your interest.
2) You're a spriter? Even better!
2.1) You want to help out? Great! Contact us, we'll get the demo up as soon as possible.
3) You're not a spriter? Wait.
3.1) You don't want to wait? Refer to 2).


If you want to support the project, you may want to consider registering at our forums.

~Mia

This post has been edited by Miaxis on Oct 18 2009, 11:50 AM

This has anything to do with Fanguy's famous "Mario's Mansion" trilogy?

Anyway looks pretty cool judging from the screenshots

Nope, it's completely unrelated to Fanguy. Sorry for any confusion.

Well you could change the title. Fanguy's "Mario's Mansion" is an alltime classic, so cosnider a title change.

Especially considering that this isn't about a mansion that Mario owns (Mario's Mansion).

Well, considering that the main focus of the game IS the mansion, it should fit. (IMO)
Also I see no reason why we should change the name - no one ever copyrighted it - except if someone has a better name, of course. If so, feel free to post it.
Otherwise, don't go and complain about it since it doesn't really help us. Comments on the game is what we need.

Golden Forest Mansion?

This post has been edited by mariobro27 on May 3 2009, 08:40 AM

So you finally posted our project on MFGG
Well, I think the name is pretty okay considering Mario is the main character and the Mansion the main location.

I think you should change the name.
But aside from that, it looks nice so far.

Seriously people, stop complaining about the name. This topic is about the game. Not the name.
Also if you didn't notice I already said it's only the working title in the start post. Thank you for your attention.

Back to topic - haven't heard anything besides "looks good" yet. We could need some actual feedback.

This post has been edited by Latia on May 3 2009, 10:42 AM

Well, maybe you should add some different enemies, not only lotsa eeries and some goombas and spinies.

This post has been edited by dj coco on May 3 2009, 10:48 AM

Uh, you know this is just a part of area 1? Don't expect 5+ enemies in the first part of an area. We don't want to overload the players with lots of new enemies when they just started the game.
Of course there will be more enemies - not in this part, though. I wouldn't like having Buzzy Beetles, Hammer Bros and Lakitus + Standard Goombas and Koopas in 1-1 of SMB.

This post has been edited by Latia on May 3 2009, 11:25 AM

Yeah, but there are way too much eeries and I would add some dry bones.

Based on the screenshot, it looks alright. (Although I hope all the levels aren't based around mansion-like levels, despite it taking place in a mansion.) It'll make users thirsty for new scenery, and if that isn't met..well, you'll have some dehydrated users!

Let's see. The first half could use some gimmicks here and there that'll add flavor to it, or atleast make it not entirely time-precision jump based. I'm hoping this is NOT the first level, because it looks difficult to beat it without taking damage atleast 5+ times. (which I guess isn't bad depending on how much HP Mario has) Adding a mini-boss was a good idea. Yeah the main thing I have here is the over abundance of enemies leading to a level full of frustrating maneuvers. Throw some gimmicks(but don't overdo it!) and whatnot in there, and you'll have yourself a potentially great fangame.

This post has been edited by kirbyhi5 on May 3 2009, 12:43 PM

Sorry, another complaint about the name, but really, it should be changed for this reason:


Someone says "You ever play Sonic the Hedgehog?"

Then person 2 would say "Yeah, and I loved it! The gameplay is awesome, the speed is phenomenal, I can grab over 100 rings in each level, the game is almost flawless!"

Person 1 would reply "... what the hell are you talking about? The gameplay is so full of glitches, the speed just helps the glitches happen more often, you can't even get over 50 rings because you hit so many enemies incorrectly, the game is a piece of ****!"

Person 2 would become confused and be enraged, and they would both argue about the gameplay, until someone would say something that clued them in, like

"And the voice acting doesn't help!"


Then Person 2 would be confused again, saying "... Sonic the Hedgehog? Voice acting?"

Person 1 would say "I'm talking about Sonic the Hedgehog for the 360," and Person 2 would mention "Oh, I thought you meant Sonic the Hedgehog for the Genesis. No, I completely agree, Sonic the Hedgehog for the 360 is pure ****."


An unnecessary argument brought up, because two games have the same name.




Get my very-extruded point? It's not a good idea to have the same name, especially with such a classic and popular game. I'd like to be able to ask someone if they've played Mario Mansion, and if they found it fun, and not have to get into an unnecessary argument because they're talking about unrelated stuff to THIS Mario's Mansion.

seconded.

Also, yeah the videos look decent, but the graphics could use some work, especially the goombas.

The story is quite interesting, I drew such a game (also Mario Mansion) year sago. YEAH, I drew it. The levels and everything.

As for the video/game:

-Needs more enemies
-Needs NEW enemies
-Nees more Mario elements
-Probaply needs new sprites, or just some better (but not any re-used)

That background for example is TOO overused. Look for a spriter and do something new, exciting.

Didn't you read the description? No graphics are final. But I agree with you what you said about the enemies.

@kirbyhi5: Oh don't worry. What you've seen only was area 1 out of 15 - all based on somewhat different themes like ice, fire or water. Also there are three somewhat strange areas in the non-secret stories. Fourth story is.......well, doofuses. The insanity of the level is due to me playing on hard mode - you can choose between easy (enemies have less HP, do less damage and appear not that frequently), normal (enemies have standard HP, do average damage and appear at a normal rate) and hard (enemies have higher HP, do more damage and appear quite often).

For example, in normal mode, Goombas have 2 HP and do 2 damage. In easy, they got 1 HP and do 1 damage, in hard they've got 4 HP and do 4 damage. The level's on hard mode - the battle with scario in normal mode because it would've got too long otherwise. (10 min limit)

Also, graphics are still beta - wondering why no one noticed I used two different tilesets yet - they'll be changed to a completely new, most likely custom style.

About the HP of Mario - he's starting off with 50 HP, gaining 5 additional HP for leveling up (you gain EXP by defeating enemies) or buying upgrades.

@Yoshiman: Bottom part of first post.....we heard it and it IS going to be changed when the demo is released. Spoiling the title would either spoil the storyline or confuse you since it's related to the storyline. If anyone wants to know the final name, PM me since I don't want to spoil it for everyone.

@Funky: Yeah, only thing is our spriter got cut away from his computer and can't get online. As said, no graphics are final. There's going to be a variety of enemies, some from the Mario dimension, some completely custom (like the Team Doofus members)
For the Mario elements, you mean stuff like items? They'll be in there - coins will be replaced with leaves, for example. There won't be any powerups, or at least not the way you know them. The next video will be exactly about those "powerups", so stay tuned.


Anyway, thanks for the comments, guys.

This post has been edited by Latia on May 3 2009, 01:29 PM

awesome, no need to spoil it if you don't want, as long as the name is changed