The recently released and record-breaking Super Mario Galaxy Movie delves more into Princess Peach’s background, and Shigeru Miyamoto wants Nintendo to adhere to this in future games.
Please be aware of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie spoilers below.
In The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, it is revealed that Princess Peach and Rosalina are sisters who were separated at a young age. Many had speculated that there was a familial connection between the two when Super Mario Galaxy (the game) first released almost two decades ago, but it was never confirmed. Until the film was released, that is.
Now, during a new group interview with Japanese media, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto has said he hopes that any future games in the series take into account Peach and Rosalina’s relationship from the film.
“Because we don’t know what kind of game we’ll make next with our characters, having too many character settings would become a constraint. I’m fine with being bound by the gameplay, but I don’t want to be bound by having created a story, which has been the reason for not making movies for many years,” Miyamoto replied to a reporter who asked about the sisters’ relationship now being canon (translated by Nintendo Everything
“So, before making this movie, I hadn’t decided on the character’s backstory, but now that I’m making the movie, it’s become fun to expand on the character in various ways. Therefore, I would like to adhere as much as possible to the settings created in the movie in future games.”
We awarded The Super Mario Galaxy Movie two stars on its release earlier this month, with Christian Donlan calling it “quite bad, for quite interesting reasons”.
“This isn’t a Bowser movie, just as it isn’t really a Mario movie or a Luigi movie or a Rosalina movie or any of that jazz. There isn’t enough space and time for anything truly memorable to develop,” he wrote in Eurogamer’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie review.