Mitchell Van Morgan: Global Marathon

Cover art, featuring Mitchell and his ghostly friend, Curtis

***Mitchell Van Morgan: Global Marathon (Mitchell Van Morgan：グローバルマラソン, *Mitcheru vu~an Morgan: Gurōbarumarason*?)*** is an upcoming platform video game distributed by Nickelodeon Interactive Games, developed by Konami, co-developed and published by THQ Nordic for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows PC currently set for release worldwide in late 2017. It will be the latest title in the *Mitchell Van Morgan* series, returning to the more open ended, exploration-based gameplay previously featured in *Mitchell Van Morgan 64* and *Mitchell Elemental series*.

## Gameplay

*Mitchell Van Morgan: Global Marathon* rivals Nintendo's newest Mario game Super Mario Odyssey. The game puts players in the role of Mitchell Van Morgan as he travels across various lands related to the Raleighopolis. The game returns to the freeform, exploration-based level design previously featured in *Mitchell Van Morgan 64* and *Mitchell Elemental series*. The game also features levels inspired by real-world locations such as "Charlottesville", inspired by Charlotte, North Carolina. Mitchell and his friends will ride on a ship named "Marondome". Mitchell retains several of his classic platforming techniques, such as homing attack, dash, wall-jumping and ledge-grabbing. A new feature of the game is Adrien's ability to throw a portable spring, which he can use like a spring, allowing him to reach higher ledges or cross long gaps and Adrien's new ability to throw his own cap, which he can use like a cool boomerang.

The game is structured in an open-world setting, similar to that found in it's competitive 3d-platformers Mitchell Van Morgan 64 and Mitchell Sunshine. Mitchell gets around using what seems like a hat helicopter. He retains many of his moves from the 3D games, such as the MVM Plover, Kyokushin Karate, Stomp, Homing Attack, and Dive. It is shown that Mitchell has some new techniques, including one where he can throw his hat and use a trampoline as a platform. The hat can also be used to take control of enemies. Unlike previous open-world Mitchell games, The lives for this game have also been removed from this game. Instead, Mitchell will lose 10 MVM Coins when he dies.

## Plot

Marquessa, with the aid of The Marquessalings, a family of Marquessa's demented children serving as his wedding planners, kidnaps Tiara from the Cap Kingdom and takes her aboard his airship, intent on ransom charge. Mitchell attempts to rescue her but is thrown off the ship and falls into the neighboring Cap Kingdom. With Mitchell gone, Marquessa stomps on Mitchell's cap and lets it drift into the ship's rear propellers, shredding it to pieces. Meanwhile while returning from a beneficial sprint, Mitchell Van Morgan found a talking hat who is also the hat companion of Mitchell with an optimistic personality. Gavin, Carolyn, Jennifer, Martin, David & Nicholas on the walkie-talkie investigate about a talking hat's world. Team Mitchell Knowing that Marquessa's planning to conquer all the worlds with his diabolical scheme to in an effort to save the world from Marquessa & Genola's diabolical marriage plans. A piece of the hat is grabbed by Cappy, one of the Cap Kingdom's sentient hat-like creatures; he explains to Mitchell that Bowser also kidnapped his sister Tiara to be used as Genola's wedding tiara. Cappy joins Mario and takes the shape of Mario's cap, providing him with the ability to temporarily capture other creatures and objects and utilize their abilities. They travel to the nearby Cascade Kingdom, recover an airship, the *Mitchell Station*, and begin pursuing Marquessa.

Mitchell and Cappy explore the various kingdoms to collect Power Moons to fuel the *Mitchell Station* and battle the Marquessalings, who steal items including a dress, a cake, and a bouquet from each kingdom to set up Marquessa & Genola's wedding. Eventually, they catch up to Marquessa in his own kingdom and defeat the Marquessalings for good. However, Bowser subsequently departs for his wedding on the Moon. Mitchell and Cappy fly the Mitchell Station to the Moon's surface and confront the Marquessa & Genola inside a cathedral. The two sides battle in a cavern, which Mitchell wins. He frees Peach and Tiara, but the cavern begins to collapse. Mario captures an unconscious Bowser and escapes to the surface with Peach and Tiara. After Peach thanks Mario for his help, Marquessa regains consciousness and decides to properly propose to Genola, causing Mitchell to do the same in haste and decides to properly propose to Carolyn. Overwhelmed, Marquessa ends up throws a tantrum that his marriage world domination plan failed. Carolyn, Cappy and Tiara board the *Mitchell Station*. Marquessa and Genola get upset seeing their megalomaniacal plan to conquer the world is ruined before Carolyn tells Mitchell that it's time to go home. Mitchell boards the ship just in time, leaving Marquessa stranded on the Moon. In the epilogue, Mitchell returns to Raleighopolis, where he discovers Princess Paulina has packed her bags and left for parts unknown without the knowledge of her servants.

## Development

*Mitchell Van Morgan: Global Marathon* was first teased when Nickelodeon released the announcement trailer for the Nintendo Switch on October 20, 2016. The game was fully announced at the E3 presentation on January 13, 2017, with series creator MITCHELL Project stating that the game would "go back to the roots", appealing to a more core demographic than the more recent "casual-friendly" iterations of the *Mitchell* series. Shortly after, gameplay footage was provided at a Japanese presentation.

Further details and public demos will be unveiled at Nintendo's presentation at Electronic Entertainment Expo 2017 in June, where Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé stated that players would be allowed a "hands-on perspective" of the game.

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## External links

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 ***Mitchell Van Morgan* console main series games**

 Upcoming | *Unannounced "Mitchell Van Morgan" game* (2024, multi-platform)