Whats the story behind it, what is Mario doing in space?
Currently very little is known about the background story as to why Mario is stomping around planetoids. According to many who have played the demos the general consensus is that after Princess Peach is kidnapped by an unknown villain, Mario must follow the culprit all the way into outer space. In space, Mario finds a world very different from the Mushroom Kingdom. Some of the areas are spherical, allowing Mario to travel completely around them. Heres what Miyamoto had to say on the subject: When we develop a game, I always start off first with the gameplay system itself, making sure the core element of gameplay is really locked down and very fun. The story is something we finalize at the last minute. This time around with Mario, we focused not so much on the difficult jumping, but more on this idea of running around and the different planets and things like that. We’ll be playing around with that, and we’ve really locked that down. As we go along we’ll add more elements in, and based
