Mario Miyamoto: The Neglected World

Mario Miyamoto: The Neglected World is a science-fantasy action-RPG reboot of the Super Mario series, with mecha.
Unlike most Nintendo games, it's released on the PS5 and Xbox series X too due to being a reboot that has nothing to do with Mario. 
It reimagines Mario and Luigi as Japanese space soldiers exploring planet Kinokoboshi (known for its magic-based tech and inhabited by the mushroom-like Kinopio race) in order to look for lost general Osborne Reynold Bowser. Sonic characters are rebooted as part of this darker Mario universe, such as the blue hedgehog Lizuka Takas Onsok and Julius Ewan Robotnik being rebooted versions of Sonic and Eggman. 
== Gameplay ==
The game is an action RPG akin to Final Fantasy VII Remake, with battles happening in real time once the player encounters an enemy on the field. 
Its on-foot battle system. Arrow keys are used to navigate the ability menu, 
It's also got a mech-based battle system, used in some sections and a few special dungeons, where you play as the Obake's Ace Mode, which is driven by Mario, Luigi and Daisy and shifts Assets depending on who's in control (you shift Assets using a single button press), between the powerful heavy attacker humanoid form KaiserKing (Mario), the flying bomber SoaringQueen (Daisy), the racing car-like quick attacker JackKnight (Luigi) or the heavy, bulky long-range double turret DeuceBishop (Momoko). Said mech-based combat is action-based and the abilities you can use depend on your Asset. 
== Playable Characters ==
=== Playable characters: ===
* Mario Miyamoto/Suzaku The Corundum (weapon: grenade launcher): Heavy hitter of the squadron of Kagemusha which landed in the Kinopio Imperium. Due to having been kidnapped in the past, he's mostly mute (being able to only say a few brief screams and grunts) and rarely emotes outside of combat, but in combat or in dangerous situations, his personality quickly takes a turn for the ruthless. He seems to fear himself or something about himself. He's got a strong attachment to his twin brother Luigi, who is the key to his heart: when Mario is near Luigi, he opens up and becomes much more expressive. He's a Daemon, having been kidnapped by O. R. Bowser due to his psionic powers and forced to resonate with Suzaku the Corundum: as he was once possessed by Suzaku and destroyed the facility he was experimented in by causing a wildfire (hence, Suzaku intentionally created the mute and amnesiac Mario as a cover-up personality to hide behind due to fear of his own powers). As Suzaku, he's the one of the Four Beasts who controls fire and life, and his true form looks like a phoenix. As a honorable man, at the end of the game Mario keeps Bowser's promise to go alongside Louis to give Bowser's son Steve the shell containing Genbu's powers: as Mario and Louis have formed a mutual trust despite their rivalry, Mario accepts and kneels in front of Steve. In battle, Mario is a strong attacker specialized in physical attacks, combining explosives with his skill in martial arts, and his attacks are either non-elemental or fire-elemental, but he's also got a healing skill.
* Luigi Miyamoto (weapon: revolver): Mario's twin brother, and the trigger to Mario's very few emotions.
* Margherita "Daisy" Sugimura (weapon: rifle)
* Kzaavar no Yoshitsune "Yoshi" (weapon: urumi whipsword)
* Kinoko no Momoko/Angelic Machine π-1 (weapon: magatama)
* Lizuka Fujin Onsok/wind half of Seiryu the Turquoise (weapon: chain with sharp tip): A blue hedgehog-like creature hailing from the Moebius Kingdom, a tributary kingdom of the Kinoko Imperium. He's the current head of the Lizuka bloodline's Fujin branch (while Lizuka Raijin Gerard is the head of the Raijin branch) and he and Gerard have the special title of Wind and Thunder Knights protecting the kingdom and leading the army (though Onsok doesn't like leading the army and leaves the duty to Gerard). Onsok is a carefree, playful, somewhat childish, but still extremely loyal to goddess-empress Momoko and king Nakkols and loves fighting to protect the Imperium. As the head of the Fujin branch, he's got half of the power of the one of the Four Beasts called Seiryu the Turquoise, the half that controls wind, while Gerard has the half that controls lightning. He's a fast, agile, yet squishy attacker specialized in dealing high damage per second, evading attacks, covering large distances quickly, increasing the stagger meter, removing aggro from himself and a thunder-elemental magic attack (wind is counted as thunder element).
* Kinopiko (weapon: mace) 
* Maria Dementieva (weapon: cards); She becomes a party member for the final boss only, as she helps team Mario destroy Genbu just as a form of betrayal against him (and because she wishes for Mario to fall to his hidden violent side), but is not a hero and is not treated as such, she's an insane villain who is much worse than Bowser. 
== Antagonists ==
* Osborne Reynold Bowser/Genbu the Obsidian: An American general apparently missing in action after being killed in a wildfire on the planet. He has strong psionic powers (which allowed him to rise from a poor street kid to the USA's greatest living military commander) which allowed him to merge with Genbu the Obsidian, the one of the Four Beasts which controls earth and darkness, struggling to maintain control over the beast but still managing to keep his sense of self. He's the one who ordered clandestine research on the Four Beasts which he found on planet Kinoko and kidnapped children with psionic powers (such as Mario Miyamoto from Japan and Maria Dementieva from Russia) in order to have them resonate with the Four Beasts and producing "Daemons" (he never managed to capture Seiryu because Mario/Suzaku attacked Osborne himself and destroyed his facility), however, knowing child abduction to be a reprehensible act, he decided to treat the Daemons as full-fledged sons as a way to atone for his debt to them, and believes he deserves everything Mario does to him. His dream is to "die by the hands of the strongest of his sons" and he's more than willing to sacrifice his own powers as Genbu to keep his sons alive. Bowser's reason for evil is his wish to be a father and a protector for his family and homeland, believing he's failed his son Steve (he says "I have a son trapped in autism and slave of cocaine, I want to be his freedom. I want to be freedom for all of America's children, not trapped in the autism of dogmatic prejudice nor enslaved by Japanese nor alien colonialists. I am a father first and foremost, and Japan threatens my children"). Since Bowser rules over earth and darkness, whoever he kills he awakens as a monster which the US Army could use as a weapon, but which Osborne himself sees as an actual son (hence why the shadow beasts look and act somewhat like babies). He has a son, Steve Bowser, a young, talented painter who's battling autism, cocaine addiction and depression. At the end, before he dies, Bowser gives Mario a small shell made of the remains of Genbu's power, telling Mario that he trusts his honor as a Japanese to give it to his son Steve "Bowser Jr.", so that he could recover and become the Eighth Scion of Genbu.
* Dr. Julius Ewan Robotnik
* Maria Dementieva/Byakko the Selenite
* Seven Scions (Larry Miller, Roy Carson, Lena Fraser, Gwen MacWillard, Ikumi Osterberg, Tony Mordor Jr.. and Louis Bentham): Seven Daemons made from cells of Genbu of the Four Beasts, who as such share power with their "father". Osborne Reynold Bowser treated them as his children and cares for them as actual sons. When Suzaku went berserk and destroyed the facility, they were killed but Genbu, who has control over earth and as such death and darkness, rebuilt them using a fraction of his power. The Scions usually act in male-female pairs who are connected through a "Psychic Link": Larry and Lena, Roy and Ikumi, Gwen and Tony. Louis acts alone. Louis' personality contains a revenge desire against Mario (who he blames for the destruction of the lab) and often expresses a desire to make Bowser happy due to knowing about Steve. Louis shows a strong attachment to Steve Bowser, Osborne's son. Louis and Steve are lesbian lovers, Louis mentions he's the reason why Steve's rehab from drug addiction is going as well as it does. At the end, Louis trusts Mario and decides to take him to Steve in order to give him the shell containing Bowser's remaining power.
== Plot ==
It's year 2567, mankind has been colonizing space for years. 
It's been 30 years since American military base "Saint Etienne" on planet Kinokoboshi was destroyed in an explosion and US army colonel Osborne Reynold Bowser was burned to death. Paranormal phenomena have recently started to infest the planet, which is overrun by monstrous creatures known as the Obsidian, spawn of Genbu, the one of the Four Beasts of Kinokoboshi which rules over earth and darkness. 
Japanese infiltrator ship Obake lands on planet Kinokoboshi, more precisely in the Kinoko Imperium, as part of an infiltration mission in the capital Kinomiyako in order to look for information about the disappeared colonel and the wildfire which killed him. However, under the rule of empress Momoko (a human-looking android who is just a figurehead worshipped as a goddess, while the real ruler is shogun Jiratsuma), the Imperium is under an isolationist policy carried on for years since the appearance of the Dark Forces and no one is authorized to set foot in it. 
The Obake's crew comprises various members of the Kagemusha, a group of infiltrator soldiers working under Japan's intelligence agency. Three Kagemusha form the main strike team: mute soldier Mario Miyamoto, his twin brother Luigi Miyamoto, and Margherita Sugimura (codenamed Daisy because margherita is Italian for "daisy flower"). 
The Obake lands in Yotatsujima, an island covered in a dense, lush jungle, where anthropomorphic dinosaurs called Yotatsu live. 
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Once at the imperial palace, Momoko tells the team about the Four Beasts protecting the planet and controlling its four elemental forces, Suzaku of the Heat, Byakko of the Cold, Seiryu of the Sky and Genbu of the Earth. The Dark Forces are monstrous sons of Genbu, the beast of the Earth, who used to be dormant but now awoke. 
== Locations ==
* Starship Obake
* Tatsushijima
* Brown Forest of Kanemori 
* Garekiiseki Desert/Jimegesuido Sewers
* Ooko Island
* Kinokoyama Peaks
* Sakuramura
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== Trivia ==
* Mario Miyamoto is not a self-insert. He's mute because of a split personality that he has implanted. When his memories as Suzaku awaken, he starts talking (in his stint as a villain, Mario talks).
* π-1, Momoko's codename as a machine, is pronounced "Peach" (pi-ichi) by Mario's team (which speaks Japanese) while Americans pronounce it as "pie-one".
* Unlike in the main Mario series, here Bowser is a well-intentioned extremist and does not kidnap anyone for love. Instead, Osborne R. Bowser had kidnapped Mario because he considers the Daemons somewhat like surrogate children, and wants to either die at Mario's hands and make him the strongest psionic ever, or use his Genbu powers to protect the USA.
* Kinopio look like mushrooms but also have amphibian features in order to explain why people nickname them "Toads".
* A lot of locations are taken from the worlds from Newer Super Mario Bros Wii, translated to Japanese. 
* Onsok is a reboot version of Sonic the Hedgehog (Onsoku means "sonic speed" in Japanese). Unlike Sonic from Sonic Boom, this Sonic lives in the Kinoko Imperium and is portrayed as a warlord ruler of an allied kingdom.
* While Toads are known by their Japanese name, Kinopio, Yoshis are not a race in this reboot, instead Yoshis are named Yotatsu and Yoshi is a diminutive of "Yoshitsune". 
* While Bowser is usually associated with fire and Sonic with wind, their reboot versions are Genbu/Bowser associated with earth and darkness, while Seiryu/Onsok is associated with both wind and thunder (and described as "lightning elemental"). Though Bowser does control fire, ice and lightning through his Earth Lord's Rule power allowing him to use a fraction of the powers of Byakko and Suzaku. 
* Sonic and Shadow were not related. Their counterparts in this Mario reboot are part of the Lizuka bloodline.
** The Lizuka bloodline is named after Takashi Iizuka.
*The Seven Scions are named after the Koopalings, of which they are a rebooted version (but Bowser cares about them as children rather than just as weapons), and are made much more distinct than the Koopalings: Larry Miller is named after Larry Mullen, Roy Carson is named after Roy Orbison, Lena Fraser is named after Ian Fraser "Lemmy" Kilmister, Gwen MacWillard is named after Wendy O'Williams, Ikumi Osterberg is named after Iggy Pop (whose real name was Osterberg), Tony Mordor Jr. is named after Morton Downey Jr. (the name "Tony" is taken from Tony Stark, a character portrayed by Robert Downey Jr.) and Louis Bentham is named after Ludwig van Beethoven.
*Bowser Jr, named Steve Bowser in this continuity, does not appear as a villain. Instead, he's a sick artist who only appears at the end of the game, as Bowser dies by using the last of Genbu's power to cure Steve. It's implied Steve/Bowser Jr. will become Mario's friend and ally in a sequel, while Maria Dementieva becomes the main villain. 
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