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Dodece said:
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However the truest answer is this. The staff at Nintendo is either too incompetent, too lazy, or too self serving to actually fashion a story that is the gaming equivalent of the song that never ends. Allowing them to shovel out two dozen versions of the same game.

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They only deal with the plot insofar as to complement the gameplay. If the game wouldn't be improved by a particular point, it isn't put it. Hence the almost complete lack of story in Mario games. They won't break that rule even to preserve continuity or characterisation.