Overlooked platformer games thanks to Mario's existence

[68soul]

I think it's the platformer genre which has been overlooked as a whole in the recent past, there were not that many platformers released in the last decade, or a least really amazing ones...

And as many already said, the Super Mario's, in both 2D or 3D, are such amazing games that it's quite hard to compete...

A game like Klonoa on Wii was nice, but did it really deserve to sel as well as Galaxy? Same thing for De Blob, a nice and cool effort, but not a masterpiece anyway... Lost Winds did many things right too, but is it overlooked? It's hard to know, but it seems successful on Wiiware... the scale of that succes is unknown, though...

But i think the only platformer that really made an impression on me (outside Galaxy and NSMBWii, of course) is the Kirby's Canvas Curse on DS: now that was something different, and totally enjoyable...

A shame that not many others tried to reinvent the platformer genre thanks to the stylus input... but the game received many good critics, and sold quite well anyway... not in the Mario's league, but how many games can be in such a league, in ANY genre? Easy to get overlooked, that's for sure...