| zero129 said: 2- The game is mostly all vehicle combat etc with a few platform bits in it and is classed as a spin off, (IE Mario Kart, Now that i think about it i don't remember so many people getting mad about that when it first came out on the snes) |
That would be because Super Mario World was already out. I don't think anybody would be complaining if they decided to make a pure Banjo platformer and then release Nuts and Bolts as a second project. Well, they might if the platforming sucked.
Personally, I saw the airstrike on 8-bit Mario as less of a symolic challenge to the Mario franchise, and more as a proclamation of the death of platforming as a serious genre. Sort of a, "This ain't your father's platformer!" statement. Aren't you glad that you aren't just jumping around anymore? How did we get by all those years without aircraft and guided missiles in our platformers?
At least there's LostWinds. I'm hoping downloadable games will spark a revival of 2D and 2.5D platforming, perhaps even carrying over to full 3D projects down the road.
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