Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games/Headscratchers


 * Okay... Why is Daisy a speed type? One of the playable Mario characters is actually known to be faster than Yoshi, yet has slightly above average speed in the game. I'm talking about Luigi here, who's fast enough to run over the surface of water for a little while.
 * Well, the developers were probably faced with two options: assign Luigi the role of a Fragile Speedster or a Jack of All Stats since he's been both in previous games. It makes sense to put him in the same class as Mario since the only games that don't put them on equal footing are the Mario & Luigi games, in which Mario is the Glass Cannon and Luigi is the Stone Wall / Mighty Glacier. In everything else (Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros, etc) the bros. have almost identical stats/abilities. Not exactly an answer, but maybe it offers a little insight. (Besides, how awesome is it to see Luigi beat Sonic or Shadow at a racing event, knowing full well that they're tailored to said event and he's not?)


 * Alright does the Adventure Tours story modes in the handheld versions of these games mean now that Mario & Sonic's worlds are one in the same and that it somehow branches off into some real world locations? You know since it is a story mode and it did say it took place in Vancouver but afterwards Mario & Sonic's adventure took place in a place on that didn't seem to be Vancouver at all. If anything I'm even more confused about where Sonic's games take place in now since it referred to a real world location, it was a crossover story with Mario, the story took place in a non-Vancouver like place, and as we've seen in maps in Sonic and Sonic-related games the globe in Sonic's world is shaped nothing like ours. I don't really get it.
 * I like to think of it as an Animated Actors type of deal. Mario and Sonic are just video game characters, as are all his friends. They are perfectly aware of this, so when they do things like participate in the Olympics, it's them doing things outside of their usual fare. Sort of like two actors from a film billed to once-rival studios getting together for a round of bowling or something, and the media follows them and films them playing together.