Comment by dogsbarkdogsbyt
10 hours ago
Yeah and the Lakitu framing did a lot of hidden work. The camera isnt an abstract system to them, its a guy on a cloud. So when you hit the C buttons youre not rotating a camera rig, youre asking Lakitu to move. That one fiction makes the controls legible without a tutorial. Id love to see more games steal that trick instead of dumping camera docs in a settings menu.
That was such a charming part of Super Mario 64.
Especially when you go into rooms with giant mirrors and you can see yourself. As in you can see the camera. Which is the little guy on the cloud. Such a charming wonderfully creative concept.