On a peaceful day, the Mario Bros are relaxing, having beaten Bowser once more. However, they see a strange, black, and broken pipe. Curious, they jump into the pipe. When they come out, however, they find that they are stuck! They spot a woman attacked by strange creatures called Mini Darks. The bros defeat the Mini Darks and save the woman. (This battle is mainly a tutorial). The lady introduces herself as Royal Lady Obscuritas, and they are in the Annoctatio Region. They discover that this land is a parallel world to the Mushroom Kingdom, and it is slowly being destroyed by darkness, a force only able to destroy. The bros set off to destroy this dark force before Annoctiatio is destroyed.

-CO-OP, Battle Mode, and Online Multiplayer!
-Able to switch between Mario and Luigi.
-Many things have a parallel in this Annoctatio, such as:
---Goombas: Mini Darks
---Bomb-Omb: Dark Bomb
---Lethal Lava Land: Flooded Icecaps
---Pipe Land: Wasteland Maze
-Trying to make the game dark, yet keep it a classic Mario game.
-Enemies from Mario return, but now as allies, as the land is a parallel to the Mushroom Kingdom.
-Many places in Annoctatio are suffering from the darkness. An example is how the Bullies in Lethal Lava Land's parallel, Flooded Icecaps, are freezing due to the intense cold and chilly waters.
-Powerups return, though the game uses a health bar instead of Small Mario. Power-Ups such as Fire Flower do NOT heal health, and will go away along with the health portion (such as if Mario turns into Fire Mario when he has 2 bars left and gets hit, he loses the power-up and only has 1 bar left as well).
-Sidequests, open world worlds (connected through "The Pipe System" in Annoctatio City), and more!

Credits:
Me-Plot and sprites
Ultluigi-Programmer and partner
MarioSonicCouncil-Music
Guss-Sprites
DeeY-Sprites
Dazzle-SMAS Font
Parakarry and BS-Font on Banner
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So...any comments?

A darker, grittier Mario platformer could be fun. I like your plans to use an interconnected pipe system and include sidequests.

So basically it's SPM

Please show some screenshots.

If you need help programing splitscreen, just ask. I will make a tutorial soon. I won't be able to upload it since I am having MFGG login troubles.


Also like I said before don't use Guss's sprites with SMB3, it clashes,


If you already changed it, kudos, I guess...