OttoniBastos said:
That 15-35 male demographic... |
And this really is the problem. With the NES, SNES, and even N64, Nintendo had a decent balance of kiddie and adult games they pushed. Even their kiddie games weren't as cutesy as the games you have above, and millions of adults enjoyed playing them, too. Nintendo started sliding into the "kiddie console" after the N64. They started getting cutesy with all of their characters. Even the friggin' console looked liked a kid's lunchbox. And while things didn't improve with the Wii, it didn't hurt them because gamers went nuts over motion controls that gen. Now, we're at the Wii U, with no craze to make people buy it, and Nintendo is just throwing out games that look like that. And when gamers wanted an adult Zelda game, like OoT and the E3 demo they showed, Nintendo gives us watercolor Zelda. Nintendo fans will act like that is better, but that's not what they were saying when that E3 Zelda was shown, nor is that what will appeal to your average gamer. They want a return to that kiddie, but definitely not cutesy, games that Nintendo used to make.
Personally, I hate what they did with Mario. He went from a New York plumber of Italian descent, which in the cartoons was kind of a tough character (not overly so, though), to sounding like a stereotype of an Italian who runs around on all fours, while wearing a cat furry suit and yelling Woo hoo! or Weeee! the whole time. Ugh.
