Mario maker 3 and my speculation on the new themes (beach) read desc
This will be the first in a few posts of mine based around my theorys for new themes in a possible Mario maker 3.
As I'm sure you all know, Mario maker 2 gave us a lot, a lot that ended up really sticking with all of us compared to the first. My favorite thing are the themes for the courses, making levels around them and the variety. But they're still some themes a lot of us wish for, the one I'll be speaking about today is the beach theme. I love the beach and hope we get it as a theme if Mario maker 3 happens. But for now we can always speculate. That's exactly this post, speculating each style's beach theme's look IN DETAIL.
Starting off, Mario Bros 1 will fairly be original. A simple background I could see them using is giving us a view of the sealine, with the overworld hills being islands in the distance. The ground would be similar sand to the desert theme, but be less hot looking in terms of the color spectrum. Maybe they can make the sand lines from the desert and turn them horizontal so it flows through the ground well. The music could very much be a very standard 8-bit tropical beat.
Super Mario Bros 3 is interesting, as it has stages and elements that can be considered beach like, I think the end goal should be to combine a few things. Stages from world 3 in SMB3 like the first image above, use this unique blue tile look to it, after a while I think they could use this as the ground set, giving the theme a very "beach resort" feel to it. The background should be like the second image, combining the green hills from pipeland, and the palm trees from the desert. However the sky I believe should take the color of the third image, giving it a soothing darker blue look, with the clouds being the circle swirl ones used the game. The music should be a nice relaxing beach like vibe, with a slight callback to the map theme of world 3 from the original game.
Super Mario world is peculiar, technically, it really doesn't have much of a beach theme, however the 4th image kind of shows a perfect sort of beach theme for that style. The green hills working has a shoreline in the back, the ground could be that it something similar, and all in all, it's pretty much something id expect. I think the music, while being perfectly fine with a traditional tropical track, could be enhanced if they do something unique like the music they did for the desert theme. I imagine a sort of "beach boys" vibe to the ost to really give it an exciting feel compared to the others.
New super Mario Bros U is basically a no brainer, sparkling waters would be a great set piece to use for tropical stages, and with Mario maker 2 upgrading the way the nsmbu stages look, I feel like sparkling waters will look absolutely beautiful with its new hd look in Mario maker 3. I could expect the vertical background to be the alcove background with the waterfalls used in the later stages of sparkling waters, imagine traveling up the stages as a beautiful waterfall flows in the back, eventually making it to the top and seeing the sky.
Super Mario 3d world's Beach feels easy too, that one beach side stage from world 5 would make a very pretty centerpiece to the beach stage. Not to mention the ost, playing mm2's sm3dw underwater stages made me wish I could listen to the on land version of the track, cause oh my god its so good.
In conclusion, these are the ways I imagine the beach theme looking in Mario maker 3 if we get it. Look forward to the next post, discussing the mountain theme.
Also I hope people decide to read this post, I put a lot of time into it lol.