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[MrYoshbert]

IIRC Miyamoto said he wants to make all future installments like Sticker Star. He hates story in games for some reason too I specifically remember that... 

I don't think it's so much as Miyamoto outright despising story in games.  Legend of Zelda and Pikmin (I think; haven't played any games in the latter series) are proof of that.

I think it's more that he doesn't like having too much of it in just the Mario games specifically, because he feels that it distracts too much from the gameplay.  Hell, now that I think about it, part of me doesn't blame him for doing what he did. Super Paper Mario, in my opinion, did go over the top a bit with its Blumiere and Timpani romance plot and the Dark and Light Prognosticus and Dimentio destroying the universe and all that- it all felt like 2deep4me lore that was planned for a completely unrelated game but with Mario and company tacked on to it at the last minute.

Compare SPM's plot to that of the first two PM games, all four Mario and Luigi titles, and even Super Mario RPG. Those games (especially PM64 and SMRPG) are much lighter in plot, but they still had substance.  Not only that, but the Mario characters had more direct involvement in the story than just being... there. That's still just me, though.

Also, Miyamoto shouldn't be blamed for everything Sticker Star-related; the folks who did the Club Nintendo surveys for SPM didn't give a damn about that game's story (yeah, Nintendo actually reads those; who knew?!).  In addition to that, Intelligent Systems has wanted to simplify things plot-wise for the next Paper Mario game ever since development of SPM ended. If anything, IS most likely took Miyamoto's words too literally by interpreting "tone it down on the story, guys" as "get rid of the story completely".