Malstrom: "The new 2d Mario games are suffering the SMB2J problem"

[Slimebeast]

RolStoppable said:

Slimebeast said:

Oh. That was confusing. Plus I added to it by confusing old Super Mario Brothers with the New Super Mario Brothers games.

On topic: why is Malmstrom not happy even with a 2D Mario? I thought that's exactly the type of Nintendo games he's been asking for, for yeas.

He isn't happy, because NSMB2 is stagnation. It doesn't expand the game universe. It's the same worlds revisited again.

Same worlds as in "flower world", "ice world" and "mushroom world" (just making names up here) or does he mean something else when he talks about expanding the universe?

Because I thought Malstrom was a gameplay-centric guy, and in the OP quote he seems to imply that Nintendo in fact understands that "it's about game play mechanics".

Btw, what do you think? Is NSMB2 stagnation?