Taking Tanabe's development philosophy into account, it seems unlikely that Intelligent Systems has plans to return to the RPG style as the team is more interested in experimenting with new gameplay styles rather than reverting back to the turn-based battles of the Nintendo 64 and GameCube titl "Nintendo has another RPG series starring Mario and we wanted to distance ourselves from it by making an adventure game with a focus on solving puzzles." Tanabe is referring to AlphaDream's Mario & Luigi ...