Mario bores me...

[Zero Kirby]

Yeah I'm fully aware that Mario doesn't stand out for his stories, but still...I'd like to be surprised once in a while. Instead, I can easily predict how a new game will turn out because it's a formula that's been done to death.

I tend to take an interesting story to heart. Otherwise, I'm not intrigued at all. I may be expecting too much out of Mario by this point. Hasn't changed for years and I don't expect it to either. Well, at least I have the non-platformer titles to look forward to.

You really are expecting too much out of Mario. His games are meant for gameplay, though they've not been innovating in that department as much lately (NSMB2 is literally stagnant) so I wouldn't blame you.

But like I said, people hated the story in Sunshine so that's probably why Nintendo haven't been trying out a new story since. People didn't want them to, so they stopped.