Talk:Spin: Difference between revisions

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The ''Mario & Sonic'' games contain recurring instances of characters spinning to a certain end—some explicitly being the same move as ''Galaxy''’s spin, and some only having coinciding features. The [[Dream Spacewalk]] event in the Wii version of ''London 2012'' has players perform a “Spin Attack” to deflect enemy projectiles, with the move [https://youtu.be/Yv4DgDoP9QQ?t=162 being visibly and audibly the same thing we see in ''Galaxy'']. The [[Dream Ski Jumping]] event in the Wii version of ''Olympic Winter Games'' contains a “special action” mechanic that characters perform in unique ways, with Mario in particular [https://youtu.be/peX3E4iyftE?t=93 spinning around while enveloping himself in a blue sparkly trail]; considering the event is a callback to ''Mario Galaxy'' in its entirety, I think it’s safe to take Mario’s special action to be a nod to his signature move in said game as well. So far, these two instances are pretty well established and fit well within the article’s scope.

But then you have the [[4x100m Relay]] event, appearing in multiple ''Mario & Sonic'' installments. In this event, players can perform special moves to gain a speed advantage on the track; some characters, namely Mario, Luigi, and [[Amy Rose|Amy]], perform it in arms-spread pirouettes that create coloured blurs around them, but while the colour of the latter two reflects on the dominant colour of their appearance (green[https://youtu.be/STikfvmPKNg?t=38][https://youtu.be/DEO37mkMdMk?t=25][https://youtu.be/dPd6AOUA_Ok?t=80] and pink[https://youtu.be/STikfvmPKNg?t=247][https://youtu.be/DEO37mkMdMk?t=64][https://youtu.be/dPd6AOUA_Ok?t=426] respectively), Mario’s is blue—as if the developers deliberately included a reference to the ''Mario Galaxy'' spin. Now, in the ''London 2012'' version of the event, the correlation isn’t as pregnant, as the [https://youtu.be/STikfvmPKNg?t=27 trail has faint sparkles and looks more like a typical cartoony blur], but ''Rio 2016'' [https://youtu.be/DEO37mkMdMk?t=12 makes the sparkles more pronounced], and ''Tokyo 2020'' [https://youtu.be/dPd6AOUA_Ok?t=63 retains that aesthetic addition to a degree]. Do note that the original ''Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games'' version of the event does not feature a speed boost mechanic and by extention a spinning animation that could set any sort of precedent prior to ''Super Mario Galaxy''.