Explain to me how this works. I can suspend disbelief and believe a man can fly with a cape, but how is the cape attaching to his toes??
It's got hooks on it, like micheal jackson's shoes when he did that one trick in smooth criminal
you know how a piece of toilet paper can stick to the bottom of your shoe? it's like that
Based on his posture, it looks like he's got it clamped between his feet, pretty much like a squirrel suit.
>>12215978Uhhh... Bros? Care to explain??
>>12217467he uses the hooks in his shoes to run up the wall.
>>12215978Suspend yourself by the neck, aphantasia nigger.
>>12217475In the picture neither shoe is hooked inTry again
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>>12215978sticky pads underneath the arch of his shoes that dont touch the ground so they dont lose their sticky.
>>12215978He's actually holding the far end of the cape above his head, and the air rushes in to fill the gap behind him. The part that appears near his feet is actually the middle of the cape being stretched by air pressure.
>>12217467>>12217540>why are we walking like this?
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>>12215978He's grabbing it with his feet, see he is pinching one end of the cape with both his feet
>>12218164he has suckers on the bottom of his feet. Like an octopus or a cuttlefish
>>12215978I actually wonder what was the thought process that lead to this design
He can do it because he believes in himself. And maybe that's the point.
>>12217467Mario is aware he is in a video game and is taking advantage of physics glitches to trick it into thinking he's running along a floor.
>>12219085Chances are it probably came from an older 70s-80s Japanese anime, which in turn took it from some 40s-50s western cartoon. That's typically how Japanese conceptual design works.
>>12217467His shoes have magnets on them.
>>12219085It was probably supposed to tie back to his neck but the sprite artist thought this was easier to depict gracefully. The promotional artwork then playfully acknowledged the sprite work.
>>12215978It's not "attached" to his toes, he's holding it with his toes. They're Italian.
>>12219172This actually makes sense
>>12219172>>12219197No it doesn't. A lot of time is spent on concepts like this. There were multiple people getting paychecks and having weekly meetings on how to design this, they don't make simple "errors" like that.
>>12218147Just thinking about this scene and how they had multiple flashbacks to it while stuck in the freezer never fails to make me laugh.
I always imagined he was pinching it between his feet
>>12219157this, just see how he goes to town on the castles after beating a koopaling. smw is a whimsical game and mario draws power from the toonforce
>>12219204It still doesn't have to make sense. The decision could've been made based on considering what reads well as a sprite and makes some degree of sense. Like yeah, the cape catching wind like that makes some degree of sense, and the player intuitively feels that this maneuver will slow their descent, and bouncing it will help them maintain height. Obviously there is no rational way to affix the back ends to Mario's shoes in a way that reads well as a sprite, so... they just kind of attach. And given the style of the official art, tying the ends around his ankles would probably look to busy, and giving his shoes little hooks on the bottom would look weird, so instead they just kinda disappear into the soles of his shoes.
