Last time, we talked about the origins of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars and how Nintendo and Square Soft took Mario into unfamiliar territory by taking him from his normal platforming games and putting him into an entirely different genre. There are many things that make role-playing games different from platformers, but one of the biggest differences is the scope of the worlds. The Final Fantasy series is known for taking players into larger-than-life locales, so why should Super Mario RPG be any different?
How does one get started making Mario s world bigger than ever before? For starters, Super Mario RPG changed the perspective that fans have been accustomed to for over a decade.
Sitting out in Lake Michigan, south of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and located between St. Martin Island and Summer Island is a windswept, storm-kissed slash of rock called Poverty Island. In the 1860s, this place was in the middle of a huge boom in maritime shipping and commerce, as the area has many steel mills and was connected to the booming Peninsula Railroad. At the time, one of the favorite routes of vessels making their runs was to take the Poverty Island Passage, between Poverty and the Gull Islands, as it was considered to be a sort of short cut, although this was balanced out by the dangers caused by the many shoals of the area. Although a lighthouse was eventually built on Poverty Island and put into operation in 1885, for a long time ships were forced to travel during the days and brave treacherous rocks and shoals. It was in this era when Poverty Island was notorious for sinking ships that one of its most persistent legends would begin, which says that somewhere in
passengers obey the directions of the crew. well sh well, on this ship, that is exactly what they did, and it cost them their lives, because the crew told them to stay inside. the rescue operation is continuing, and the number of bodyings recovered from the ship are rising all of the time. and i had a chance to go out to operation myself on a small boat today, and look at it close-up, and it is extraordinary, and there are dozens of large and small boats an ships out there, and hundreds of divers accessing the sunken ship. they are bringing up the bodies more or less one by one, and not much other debris to be seen, and there is an oil slick on the surface of the water, but that it is in terps of the leak ship. and the civilian dive team says that the ship is completely flooded. he says there are no air
absolutely. well, turning now no theto other story we are following is the tragedy in south korea where the ferry sinking and the country is comparing the acts of the captain and the crew of that ship to murder. that is the word of the president. and anguished families are awaiting word on their children with the number of people killed in that disaster at 87, but more than 200 are missing and four more crew members with were taken into custody today. and meanwhile, transcripts show chaos and confusion on the ship when it started to list. a passenger asked a marine comptroller to answer by saying that the passengers should put more clothing and life jackets on. and bill neely has an update from south korea. good morning, tom tamron.
ferry by divers for the first time today. as the desperate search for survivors continues. translator: 176 ships and 28 planes will be mobilized to search the area around the sunken ship. 652 civilian, government and military divers will try to search the interior of the ship over 40 attempts. it is indeed a very sad situation there. and coming up at the top of the hour, we are live in thailand with the very latest. and kelly, meanwhile, a glimmer of hope coming six weeks after flight 370 went missing. crews in australia saying they ll be done searching the area in just five to seven days. the bluefin 21 delivering clear images of the sea floor today. over the next few days, the unmanned sub will search the same area, the possible black box pings detected. so far the bluefin has gone on six missions, all coming up