zygote on 25 June 2017
There have always been platformers. Perhaps they took a detour to 2D for a while during the Retro movement, but 2D and 3D seem to be balancing more now. I don't believe that has anything to do with Mario specifically. New Super Mario Brothers and the Wii VC did help to speed up the Retro movement, though it would have happened eventually due to the amount of indie developers and digital titles coming onto the scene. Super Mario Odyssey will certainly inspire a developer or two to try their hand at a new quality platformer, but any good game does that.
