True but amongst the side scrollers you could see a great leap between SMB1 - SMB3 - SMW (they are very different)
Then after that there were no real Mario sidescrollers. Finally New Super Mario Bros comes along, and it offered something new by bringing in the wall jump and ground pound mechanics of the 3D Mario games.
It wasn't quite enough though since everything else was pretty much like the past sidescrollers. With the same world archetypes, same way to finish the stage (flagpole), a lot of things were the same but with better graphics and stuff.
But I was okay with that because the title "New Super Mario Bros." let me know that this was a homage to the past titles. The new mechanics made revisiting those old things fun again. So it's okay to do that... once in a while.
See I thought this was going to be a one time thing. They want to make a new game that's like their old ones that's fine, that's cool. It's been a very long time so revisiting that stuff will be neat. That was cool with Donkey Kong Country Returns. But don't make a habit of it!
We've been reintroduced, now lets move on! Make a platformer with all sorts of new shit in it. Something visually unique and surprising!
Then after that there were no real Mario sidescrollers. Finally New Super Mario Bros comes along, and it offered something new by bringing in the wall jump and ground pound mechanics of the 3D Mario games.
It wasn't quite enough though since everything else was pretty much like the past sidescrollers. With the same world archetypes, same way to finish the stage (flagpole), a lot of things were the same but with better graphics and stuff.
But I was okay with that because the title "New Super Mario Bros." let me know that this was a homage to the past titles. The new mechanics made revisiting those old things fun again. So it's okay to do that... once in a while.
See I thought this was going to be a one time thing. They want to make a new game that's like their old ones that's fine, that's cool. It's been a very long time so revisiting that stuff will be neat. That was cool with Donkey Kong Country Returns. But don't make a habit of it!
We've been reintroduced, now lets move on! Make a platformer with all sorts of new shit in it. Something visually unique and surprising!