10-03-2012, 07:17 PM
At least the platformers do.
This is the reason the only Mario platformer I've played was the one with WART as the final boss (regardless of it being a rehash of an unrelated game). These recent ones are just bland.
Hoo boy! New Mario game!
Plot? Peach gets kidnapped without any retaliation whatsoever (despite the fact that she was capable of defeating Bowser, albeit only on one occasion).
Same old, same old. So that means the final boss is...
Bowser. Again.
Thank you sir. I'll buy a different game. I hear Skyward Sword is out.
And that's just it. Forget the fact that we've had THE SAME FREAKIN' SCENARIO FOR OVER 20 FREAKIN' YEARS, but even ZELDA has tried new things with their plots. Yeah, sure it involves Zelda being captured by a bad guy, but there's a different motive every time. And we don't constantly get Ganondorf as the final boss over and over and over and over again. It's just really, really lazy. And it's put me off from Mario games for a long time.
Get this. I've owned two Mario games over the course of my life thus far: Super Mario Advance and Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story.
Both games with different plots.
Both games with different villains.
Both games that piqued my interest.
BECAUSE IT WASN'T THE, QUOTE AND UNQUOTE, CLASSIC ALL-TOO-FAMILIAR PLOT LINE (with extra emphasis on "line")!
Now it just feels like Nintendo is low on money and decides to give birth to yet another Mario game with a plot that a 2 year old could memorize just to make more dollars/yen.
AND I FRIGGIN' LOVE NINTENDO!
Just not so much for Mario.
Sure, I might be taking this way too seriously. But keeping things the same for this long goes beyond laziness.
I'm not going to bash on anyone who likes Mario. More power to ya. I won't say the games are bad, and that's not my point either. It's like reading your favorite book. You enjoy it over and again, but try reading that same book for the next 20 years and you'll toss it out to buy a brand new one so you can experience a different story.
That's what it is. There's just no innovation in regards to story. Sure, a plot as simple as that is a classic, but come on. There should be a moment where you say, "You know what? Maybe we can add something new to the story. You know, after TWENTY FRACKIN' YEARS!"
Come on, Mario. Step it up.
This is the reason the only Mario platformer I've played was the one with WART as the final boss (regardless of it being a rehash of an unrelated game). These recent ones are just bland.
Hoo boy! New Mario game! Plot? Peach gets kidnapped without any retaliation whatsoever (despite the fact that she was capable of defeating Bowser, albeit only on one occasion). Same old, same old. So that means the final boss is... Bowser. Again. Thank you sir. I'll buy a different game. I hear Skyward Sword is out.And that's just it. Forget the fact that we've had THE SAME FREAKIN' SCENARIO FOR OVER 20 FREAKIN' YEARS, but even ZELDA has tried new things with their plots. Yeah, sure it involves Zelda being captured by a bad guy, but there's a different motive every time. And we don't constantly get Ganondorf as the final boss over and over and over and over again. It's just really, really lazy. And it's put me off from Mario games for a long time.
Get this. I've owned two Mario games over the course of my life thus far: Super Mario Advance and Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story.
Both games with different plots.
Both games with different villains.
Both games that piqued my interest.
BECAUSE IT WASN'T THE, QUOTE AND UNQUOTE, CLASSIC ALL-TOO-FAMILIAR PLOT LINE (with extra emphasis on "line")!
Now it just feels like Nintendo is low on money and decides to give birth to yet another Mario game with a plot that a 2 year old could memorize just to make more dollars/yen.
AND I FRIGGIN' LOVE NINTENDO!
Just not so much for Mario.
Sure, I might be taking this way too seriously. But keeping things the same for this long goes beyond laziness.
I'm not going to bash on anyone who likes Mario. More power to ya. I won't say the games are bad, and that's not my point either. It's like reading your favorite book. You enjoy it over and again, but try reading that same book for the next 20 years and you'll toss it out to buy a brand new one so you can experience a different story.
That's what it is. There's just no innovation in regards to story. Sure, a plot as simple as that is a classic, but come on. There should be a moment where you say, "You know what? Maybe we can add something new to the story. You know, after TWENTY FRACKIN' YEARS!"
Come on, Mario. Step it up.
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