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spemanig said:
vivster said:
So what you really hate are sequels?

I will never understand how people always love the 2nd and 3rd expansions of a franchise(sequels) but hate the 15th and 20th even though they're all just "exploitations" of the very first game.


No. Clearly I don't. I love SMB2, and 3, and World, and Yoshi's island. I love Sunshine and Galaxy, and to me, 64 is just the successor to World. My problem is when games become wholely derivative. Every single game I just mentioned has an identity destinct from every other game I named. Galaxy 2, the NSMB games, and the 3D series base their identities almost whole one other games. Their fundemental cores are a jigsaw puzzle comprised of other, more unique Mario games.

Fair enough but I really don't see the bad here. You can expand a fairly limited premise only so many times. And I mean it's not like the new games are bad. You probably would've shit your pants if you played them first and then accused SMB3 of copying the world System of SM3DW. It's just perspective. In the end they're all based on the first game and each new iteration introduced a minute additional feature.



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