- this motherfucking realistic lightning dragon is a boss in the ruined kingdom
- there's a painting to peach's castle in luncheon that goes to a floating island where yoshi lives
- yoshi confirmed - he is in an egg on top of the castle
- toadette confirmed -
- peach's castle grounds and the interior castle itself is accessible with many SM64 references in both appearance and some sound effects; power moons even take the shape of power stars
-- even the sun design on the inner castle's floor is present
- there's familiar berries around peach's castle, including one plugging up a warp pipe at the bottom of the moat, implying that you'll be able to ride/capture yoshi there at one point
-- http://i.4cdn.org/v/1508728271449.png
- inside the small towers around peach's castle have paintings of defeated bosses that can be jumped in to re-battle them
- mushroom kingdom has purple star coins as regional coins
- bowser's kingdom is feudal japan themed with bowser insignia koban as the regional coins
- the samurai armor from the super mario run promotional imagery are a wearable, and even grants entry to a costume-locked room containing an 8-bit section behind the bowser's kingdom crazy cap store, which is oddly staffed with new donkers instead of koopas for some strange reason
- luigi unfortunately doesn't appear, a first for mainline mario games in almost 10 years, but his clothes are a wearable
-- any luigi amiibo is able to unlock it
- there's a skeleton suit for 9999 regular coins
- outfits modeled after wario, waluigi, and diddy kong are in as wearables
-- this marks the first time waluigi was referenced in a main mario game
- wearables resembling mario's SM64 model
- a costume locked area in peach's castle is basically a straight port of the SM64 courtyard, accessed with the SM64 wearables
- the ending has started a colossal shitshow in the mario fanbase
- one known postgame kingdom is the dark side of the moon, where a gauntlet of harder broodal bosses can be challenged
- another postgame kingdom is the darker side, which has a "champion's road" type stage
- cubes begin appearing in kingdoms in the postgame which add moons to other kingdoms when activated
- star bits are the moon kingdom regional coin
- so far isle delfino, as well as a champagne bottle-shaped landmass on the in-game planet, seem to have nothing to allow them accessable
- i wish madame broode had a bigger role than a recurring boss, i was expecting her to be a sort of "female rabbit bowser", oh well, she better be in mario kart 9
- the mad scientist outfit is from an obscure dutch super gameboy commercial, how the hell did they remember that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCwpeXPKJ7Q