>>15203>However what if this was the original premise of the Mario Galaxy games but got scrapped before doing any line of coding?Galaxy is actually the development-brother title of Pikmin; both of them are based off of the semi-famous 100-mario SM64 demos and the limits of what 3D engines could theoretically handle. Miyamoto was more impressed by the concept of the number of entities populating the screen
(leading to Pikmin), while Koizumi was more impressed by the physics of the demo, which made him want to focus on a game loosely based on jumping between objects with their own gravity. His initial pitch were the secret levels in Mario Sunshine, which both acted as a beta test and a proof of concept, that then got greenlit for a full game that would become Galaxy
(the setting in space being downstream of the gameplay, as the logical conclusion of that physics, jumping between planets).
Star Fox on the other hand is way-off from the main Nintendo studios. It's closest relative in terms of development
(on Nintendo's side) was F-Zero, but otherwise a lot of Fox's history has been outsourced. Nintendo kinda doesn't give a fuck about Star Fox as an IP, the only two games they had full development over were the original two - they just let other devs approach and work for them, because the name is much bigger
among furries in the West because of Smash. It's factually accurate to say that the last Nintendo Star Fox game was ~30 years ago.
>although this was more of Miyamoto's "fuck you" to the guy who come up with Rosalina1. That was Koizumi, who snuck her backstory in at the last minute (much to Miyamoto's disappointment, who has been adamant that Mario should have an absolute minimal and family-friendly plot)
2. The movie making her the damsel isn't really that much of a retcon, she's not exactly a do-er, just a commander. What is a retcon is making her Peach's sister, because Rosalina's mother died centuries / millennia beforehand, and her backstory is that she was orphaned and alone until the Luma came along and she realised they had no parental figure either + that she could help them; which led to her becoming the Luma's mother figure and only returning to the Mushroom Kingdom every century on the Star Comet to pay her respects / mourn.