Main theme: Industrialism

Ideas people agreed on from the last thread:

-main villian is Norveg the rat
-Norveg has subordinates, possibly include Croc Scientist and Blimp Duck
-Bowser should play a minor role in the game.
-Peach never gets kidnapped.

Ideas people liked a lot:

-Peach can be found in Hub, learning to cook from Tayce T.  This opens up a little side quest thing where you bring Peach ingredients in exchange for ???
-One cutscene at the start of each world OR at the end of the previous castle.

Things we need to discuss further:

-How does the game start?  Why does Mario find these factories?
-What is Norveg's motive?  Why is he building power plants and polluting the land?
-What is Norveg's personality?  Deceptive? Evil?  Comically evil?
-How minor is Bowser's role?  Cameo, subplot, Paper Mario TTYD style play-as-Bowser levels?
-If Bowser is a minor role in this game, why are his minions helping Norveg?