Why is Yoshi missing from Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope? The producer explains it to you

In the predecessor, Yoshi was still part of your team, in Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope you have to do without him.

Producer Xavier Manzanares recently spoke about the reasons behind this decision Nintendo Everything.

Don’t just do the same thing

“When we first started thinking about the team and the heroes, we didn’t want to say, ‘Okay, we’ve done this before, so we need to do the same thing again’ and try to build on what we had in Kingdom Battle “, he says. “So that also applies to the heroes.”

“We settled on nine heroes early on. We didn’t know exactly what they were and we didn’t want to go with the ones that appear in Kingdom Battle because it’s so common.”

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Ultimately, according to Manzanares, it was about making the characters and archetypes in Sparks of Hope feel right and harmonize with each other.

“We approached the matter openly,” he explains. “We started dreaming up this character called Edge. I can’t say more about her past and role in the storyline because that would spoil the storyline, but the same goes for Rabbid Rosalina. Then when we talked about Bowser, we thought that would be great.”

“It was all about making sure each of them fit an archetype in terms of strategy and tactics in battle, so we made this selection of the nine heroes. We read a lot last year about the expectations of which heroes would be included and When we saw the reaction to Rabbid Rosalina, we were very happy because we’ve seen a lot of input on this character. We were very happy with the selection.”

Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope will be released on October 20, 2022 for the Nintendo Switch