The spin-off that could’ve been…
Bet ya didn’t know Yoot Saito, the creator of Seaman, worked on a cancelled Mario spin-off game! Well, in truth, no one knew about Mario Motors until just today at Reboot Develop 2018, where Mr. Saito elaborated on his friendship with the late Satoru Iwata. As described on Destructoid, Saito, Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto would regularly meet up for tea and bounce off ideas for games, and one particular concept by Mr. Saito caught the Nintendo pair’s eye: sculpting chunk — as in, the process of creating watches, camera frames, Macbooks and more out of metal.
Thus was Mario Motors — a game about crafting engine — born for DS. The game never came into fruition for undisclosed reasons (“please guess,” slyly hints Saito), but it would’ve revolved around forging cylinders for appropriate engine use. One scrapped element, meant to teach players about a unique method of acceleration, would’ve had players blow into the DS mic, but was eventually cut for the sake of children running out of breath.
As for Seaman? Saito confirms his interest in a sequel, but desires a particularly complicated engine for mobile “without any endings for years.” According to him, no follow-up will arrive until then, but he’s currently working on said engine.
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