Malstrom responds to my 'Mario and his Content' forum post

[Mr Khan]

I agree, SMW > SMB3

 

But i would wonder, from the commentary he made here, what his stance on new IPs vs franchises is. Also: if you make your own mythos, why can't you explore it? I agree that the Metroid mythos isn't all that well known, but the basics of Mario are more or less as widely recognized as Mario himself. To explore said mythos might be a tad self-indulgent, but there's no reason that it's necessarily worse than tapping some other well of the collective social psyche to make new content.