Well, to be honest with you, it's because of enemies that sometimes I miss my jumps or I get knocked out of a platform and have to restart from a previously saved checkpoint. Heck, when you get damaged and you have one slice of life left, you time your jumps carefully and it makes you think of what you're going to do next.
With that said, enemies are important in Mario games, even more in 3D platformers of the same name. Get rid of them as fast as possible, or don't. There are many ways to play a Mario game. Some prefer the speed-run route, some prefer to take their time, some prefer to do a little bit of both.
And it has been like this in many games in the past, I don't see why they need to come up with something new for upping the difficulty in a game. It's not because they are Nintendo that they need to change everything all the time you know. =P
Random game thought :
Why is Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 getting so much hate? We finally get a real game and they're not even satisfied... I'm starting to hate the gaming community so f****** much...
