RolStoppable said:
So if all the NSMB games are uninspired according to you, wouldn't that justify to have Super Mario Bros. 7 on the Wii U, if it was a step up like SMB3 over its predecessors? Critical acclaim is entirely worthless, because it's seen as heretic to rate a 2D game as high as a 3D game. For most reviewers, nowadays the scale for SMB is capped at 90, not at 100. Mario actually gives developers more freedom than Zelda. Essentially, Zelda is locked to the mythology of Hyrule. Every game that deviates from this isn't particularly well received by the market. Link, Zelda, Ganon, Hyrule, Triforce - these are the five cornerstones of the legend. Mario doesn't have as much mythology, it's a game about a real world plumber that somehow managed to enter an alternate world. This doesn't lock Mario to the Mushroom Kingdom and nobody knows what other lands exist within this world, so it's basically infinitely expendable. Super Mario World added Dinosaur Land and the game was successful, so it isn't much of a problem to integrate new stuff in the Mario universe and it also isn't hard to keep Peach and Bowser plus his underlings in the game. |
Yes, I'll give you a point regarding critics and scores.
2D Mario is just as much locked to a certain formula as Zelda is. You have your Mario and Peach and Bowser (but I prefer his old name: King Koopa, actually :p). But the game play in 2D Mario is much more locked than Zelda. You run, you jump, you try to find pipes to go down in... That's Mario for you, and changing that would just be... wrong. So wrong.
Mario doesn't have any mythology at all. When I play 2D Mario I'm never thinking about that he's a real bloke stuck in the Mushroom Kingdom. It's not important. He could just as well have been an alien, or a native for all I care. And if we are to go by by the "New"-series Nintendo isn't THAT interested in exploring Mario's myths and worlds... Sure, they threw in a Van Gogh world, but that's about it.
As it looks right now, getting 2 2D Mario's/console would kill it imo, because they're not willing to give 2D Mario the 3D Mario-treatment.
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