Mario bores me...

[Mutsukki]

I think a huge part of the people wanting "challenging stages" are bound to nostalgia. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that SMB3 or SMW are that challenging nowadays. Maybe they're harder than NSMB, but not by much, really. Except Star World, that's good difficulty and the NSMB series' Star World isn't as difficult, I agree. I get people wanting innovation like the other ones (raccoon tail power up, yoshi, cape. Even though the ice flower, penguin suit and blue shell were kinda cool, not the propeler though, and fuck the golden flower) but I still stand that they didn't innovate that much besides graphics (different systems) and level design on earlier titles. I agree that NSMB series rehashing the same 8 world concepts (plains, desert, ice, beach, etc) is terrible, but maybe if they change that, people will complain less? Even though NSMBU has a desert world as the second one AGAIN, people have said that they're pretty diverse this time (and somewhat food themed, like kirby).

What I find quite irritating, is that people used to complain that there were no new Mario platformers since World. Then NSMB comes around and everyone loves it. Now apparently everyone hates the DS one too for some reason. Come on. The Wii one wasn't even that bad, first Mario title with 4 player multiplayer, it is fun. They may be bland and that can be improved, I agree, but they're not horrible (well...except NSMB2, which is really really lazy. But the DLCs were kinda fun. The nerve wrack pack wasn't that hard, but at least it was something)., I don't get all this hate and "Nintendo is dead/over to me" talk. It just seems that people are never pleased ever.