Tell me, which do you think is authentically more brilliant? Pong, a game that quite literally made video games a viable market? Or GTA4, a rehash of a rehash of a rehash of a successful game which only adds "more" and "better" into the mix, and not "new" or "intuitive"?
Brilliance is mirrored in success, not in elitist opinion. There is no such thing as "too brilliant for the common man to grasp", only "too pretentious to admit failure". And true genius is not being able to find answers to the problems, it's being able to express those answers in a way that makes sense to everybody else. This is why games like Pong and Super Mario Bros stand head and shoulders above games like GTA4 and Halo 3. They did not try to tackle all of the problems, they just tried to tackle a few and make the solution accessible to everybody.
As for Super Mario Galaxy, I don't care what it looks like as long as it plays well. And it does play well. That would not change in the least if the graphics were lesser. Your question is meaningless rhetoric.
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