| RolStoppable said:
It isn't obvious. Super Mario Galaxy doesn't even have a coherent world that strings all galaxies together. Just like Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Super Mario 3D Land. Like Soleron said, it might as well just be things from a level editor dragged together. Even the simple world maps of the first three NSMB games are significantly more than any of the three aforementioned 3D Mario games ever offered. |
That's a strawman. It doesn't need to be a coherent world strung together (granted that does help). It just needs to capture the imagination and it did, completely. By the last levels I was really excited playing the game, it left a great feeling of accomplishment and joy just running through these imaginative levels and having that wonderful music playing with it. It was something that I had never seen before, and I was exploring and travelling, and it was both fun and exciting.
It was perfect, once I got over the babyish themes of the mother ship and the obnoxious toads, and some less interesting levels, the good levels more than made up for everything.
| amp316 said: Here's my feelings on it, Happy D. What you are saying about it being a new and fantastic world the first time that you played Super Mario Bros or whatever Mario game that it was that you played first is 100% true and in that way it isn't all about the gameplay. But to criticize the Mario series because it does the same thing doesn't make sense to me. It's still the same brilliant world and as Veknoid_Outcast pointed out earlier, there never was a deep mythology present like Tolkien's books which you referred to in the OP. |
Thank you. The part that I'm criticizing is that NSMB is not taking the series anywhere other than tightening the gameplay. That's not enough for a Mario fan, otherwise just make the game out of blocks and planes if it's all about the gameplay.
Even if the mythology is nothing like Tolkien's, the mystical nature of it was honestly more captivating than Tolkien's. That mystical nature is/was Miyamoto's unique gift and ability, one that few have. I admit lore was the wrong term in OP.
