Does Mario need to be so kiddy?

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happydolphin said:

cunger said:

I don't find Mario games to be kiddy. They are age indifferent. Am am much more alienated by family movies which often have songs or lame kid related themes. The fact that Mario has no story to speak of saves it from being childish.

Give an example of a movie for kids that turns you off, I'm interested.

Cunger was going to reply to you, but instead of clicking "quote" he clicked "report".

So lo and behold I'm minding my own business when suddenly I get this giant report about Mario and Expendables and what-not... but then I realized it was all a mis-click. I was pretty confused for a second haha.

Here's his "report" on you.

You want me to be specific and that's difficult for me to do. But I'll try. Recently I was forced into watching a movie called Lorax and the whole thing just seemed to be a ploy to get kids to care about the environment. It was like a life lesson for kids. Very cheesy stuff if you are an adult. They also had a bunch of kid songs in the movie that were designed to make the movie and the environmental values stick in the kids' heads for longer. I know that always used to work with me when I was a kid. I still have some of the Lion King songs stuck in my head ;)... Mario is just strait up gameplay. If there happen to be childish moments in a Mario game I wear them like a badge. They take me back and are nostalgic. The same why I can get a kick out of the purposely cheesy moments in a movie like The Expendables 2 that take me back to a time when Chuck Norris was actually cool. The difference between Mario and Expendables is that the non-cheesy moments in Mario are actually amazing and surprising with new gameplay twists ect. If Expendables didn't have the cheesy moments it wouldn't have anything at all.