"People will consider game slike NSMB as the holy grail of gameplay and everyone's okay with that."
Actually, I'm not. Jumping as a primary gamplay mechanism is always presented as superior to everything else, though I have no idea why. It might be the holy grail relative to games where you jump on stuff, I don't know or care, but it's just one of many types of gameplay. It's not inherently superior to games where you shoot stuff or race stuff or anything else.
As for the rest, I'm not sure what you're saying, exactly. If you saying that the aesthetics of NSMB are lacking for you, that is certainly your opinion and you're entitled to it. I know I find the series to be bland and uninspired. However, beyond that, are you saying your opinion is an absolute? Or just that people are saying you can criticize NSMB just because it's NSMB?
