Would you be interested/still buy Nintendo games if their Characters were more mature?

[DevilRising]

I'm sorry, but this kind of thing is silly as hell every time it comes up.

You want Nintendo to do some "mature" franchises, fine, look to stuff like Xenoblade, NEW IPs.

But people actually calling for so-called "mature" versions of...what....Mario, Kirby, DK, Pokemon, Animal Crossing, etc. etc.? Please.

And even for games like Metroid or Zelda.....what do you mean by "mature"? Metroid is already "dark" and Samus already blasts the living shit out of enemies. What is there to be more "mature" about? Not enough blood and gore? Or Zelda for that matter......how would it being more "mature" help it? It's a fantasy game. Are people saying they want it to clone Skyrim or Dark Souls? Personally, I don't really think I'd be too interested in a SUPER "dark" and "realistic" take on Zelda like that.


I'd be ALL FOR a new Eternal Darkness game, or even an HD remake, with improvements and added content. But that's somewhat up to the artists formerly known as Silicon Knights ever getting their shit together. I'm also ALL for, say, Retro, doing a new IP of their own, even a "more realistic" one, so long as it's good, and up to their usual standards.

But if by "more mature", people are insinuating that Nintendo needs to make their popular franchises conform more to the cliches and tropes of modern western developed games? No thanks. I like Nintendo games because they're Nintendo STYLE games. They're "old school" and there's nothing quite like them, made by anyone else. If I wanted to play games more like the "AAA" blockbuster third party titles of the west....I'd just go play those instead.