6. Condemned/Mario
After the previous suggestion of infecting entire cities with deadly viruses I thought maybe some light relief was needed. The premise for this idea is as follows, rather than Mario jumping on mushrooms, he can jump on maniacs who take mushrooms! Mix the brutal melee action with Marios obvious addiction to gold coins and there is a great premise for the first mature Mario game. Ok maybe not great but certainly thinking outside the box! But looking closer at this it does beg the question, should Mario be subjected to this? Is it sacrilege to expose everyones favourite Italian plumber to drugged up homicidal maniacs? Well thats personal opinion really I guess, but lets take a look anyway. This one has to work differently to the others as simply sticking Mario in the condemned universe seems rather unfair, after all he can only really defeat his enemies by jumping on them (we are leaving power ups out for the sake of keeping it a horror). Also we need to have Marios search for his princess in there somewhere otherwise he has no reason to be here. That is his raison d'etre after all. Things we can put in from the Condemned side are the game world and enemies. One last thing we need to address is perspective, Condemned is first person but Mario is 2D/3D and I think the best result would be mixing both 2D and 3D styles as a first person Mario just wouldnt be right, how would we see that awesome moustache!?
Games similar: Youve got to be kidding me right? Although there is Luigis mansion for Italian plumber related scares.