Also, I would LOVE a Super Mario WOrld remake with the Paper Mario assets, or like... Yoshi's island, but in the style of the Japanese commercials for that game... which is what I was hoping for when Good-Feel got handed the Yoshi License instead of the Yarn thing.
Personally....no thanks. Make a new mario 2D platformer, but choose a distinct art style/weirdness and run with it.
I feel like remaking Super Mario World is akin to remaking The Shawshank Redemption....
I know, I know, but the question was remasters akin to Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap or Halo Anniversary, where you can literally hit a button and be playing the original master system game.
they're really just making updated art assets. RFN is the ones who took it in the way of "why not try and 'fix' or put in extra?
It's not like the new Total Recall or the new Robocop ruin the originals either.
The Paper Mario assets thing for SMW is born out of the fact that the original concepts for paper mario were SMW sprites moiving around on a diorama and there's clearly that same influence in the art style to those games, whereas the Yoshi's Island thing is abit more selfish, as the way that game's art style appeared to me as a young person captured my imagination and drove me down the path of traditional and digital art I wlak today, and to see that realized beyond just big, chunky pixels would be a dream come true.
also, while we're on this subject,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6haHRbbD1M this happened in September. this project was thought dead after 2012 and many of the staff went on to form Pagoda West, but a new Team has picked up the project in essence.