Nintendo is living in the past

[Gnizmo]

infamous23 said:

Well, when you look in other artistic works, I'm sure more films in the past twenty years that have received Oscars for Best Picture have been R rated rather than G rated.  And Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns isn't considered to be one of the greatest graphic novels of all time because it kept the Adam West Batman level of maturity going for a whole new generation in the eighties.  The truth is that the more mature a work is, then the more emotions it is able to contain thus broadening its ability to be artistic.

I liked Earthbound.  Haven't played Mother 3.  I considered Earthbound the closest thing to a Robert Anton Wilson novel like Illuminatus! at the time I played it, but Nintendo refused to give us in the US an Earthbound Collection or Mother 3 in later years, and it seems they would rather spend money on titles like Mario Sports Mix or another Wii series game than trying to convince the creator of the Mother series to make a new game in it.

And the odds are that if he did, it wouldn't see the light of day outside of Japan in any form until a fan translation was done.

And if you look at works considered to be top form decades later you will find a shocking lack of connection to R ratings. Mature themes don't need excessive violence, sex, or even cursing. Artistic vision has nothing to do with R/M ratings. Look at the range of emotions and themes in films like Casablanca, Citizen Kane, The Wizard of Oz, Edward Scissor Hands, or any other amazingly timeless classics.