Does Mario need to be so kiddy?

[Michael-5]

Khuutra said:

Michael-5 said:

Nintendo is overkilling it a bit lately. I wish their Mario games were only ever so slightly less kiddy.

Super Mario 64 on N64 was a fun game kids and adults could play. It was clearly designed for an E (Everybody) audience. Although super Mario Galaxy is just as fun, the less intimidating looking Bowser, and soft tones (less scary lava levels, characters with huge eyes) really ruin the games if you ask me.

So you haven't played SM64 in about fifteen years, then?

Bowser is actually much less intimidatingly proportioned in it - his head is huge, nearly as large as his body, and his eyes are much bigger while his limbs are also smaller. Similarly, Mario's eyes are almost exactly the same size, and the lava levels were no more intimidating (the enemies were actually less so, being balls with feet and sometimes horns).

The idea that these changes - if they were real, which they aren't - ruin Mario is enough to give a person an ulcer.

Yea, but the games didn't start with a corny sinematic, with a ridiculous capturing of princess peach (in older games, she was just immediatly a hostage), cuddly stars were non existant (only after gamecube were stars present and touchable in Mario Party), toad were used for information and didn't look like clumsy fools, and...Bowser never kidnapped Peach by taking her entire caslte by chains...

I'm sorry, Mario has gotten more kiddy. While Super Mario Galaxy's Gameplay is still true to Earth, proper Mario, Nintendo has made less direct characters more clumsy, foolish, weak, and less intimidating. I mean Luigi never started off clumsy, why is is always scared and shaking in his 3D iterations?