New Super Mario Bros. 2

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That still doesn't mean you should blindly go into games "just because it's Mario"

I like NSMB and NSMBW but I can only play them in really short spurts because after a couple of levels they've gotten boring and repetitive.
Yeah, the mario formula is rock solid and Mario games can still be fun, but they're just so...
these days they're dull and lifeless and they all feel really formulaic and everything feels copied and pasted.

I'm not calling this game bad, especially based on nothing but four screenshots. It will probably be fun (and as I said, I'm probably going to get it) but what I -can- see from these four screenshots is that it's just more of the same.

Nintendo might like to play it safe, but that's a problem because they aren't just playing it safe, they flat out aren't providing new experiences.

edit a lot later: what do you consider to be the last bad mario
smb2 shouldn't count since it's a reskin of another game and neither should mario's time machine or MiM since they aren't first party nintendo games

cause personally i'd probably say that's galaxy since I havent played NSML3D yet