Camelot discusses the reasoning behind Luigi's big role in Mario Tennis Aces

Many were surprised to see that Luigi took on a pretty sizable role in the story mode for Mario Tennis Aces. Wondering how that came about? Nintendo Dream magazine talked to Camelot president Hiroyuki Takahashi to get the details. Check out a snippet of that interview below, courtesy of NintendoEverything.

That… Seems like it’d be a challenge to write, doesn’t it? I wanted the story to have an element of surprise to it! I’d eventually conclude that having Luigi – who’s usually stuck in his brother’s shadow – fill a larger role would be surprising enough! Writing Mario was a bit complicated too. It’s easy enough to understand Mario’s relationship with Princess Peach; it was his relationships with the other characters that were a bit more difficult to expand upon. Of course, among them you have Luigi, Mario’s precious younger brother – but what about everybody else? How would Mario interact with the world? He really is a thought-provoking character.

I felt like as he set out on this next adventure, Mario would be burdened with a sense of sadness for his brother that’d come from a pretty deep place. Even when I saw the opening movie for the first time, I felt that it’d come as a big shock to a lot of people.