27th May 2008, 6:49 PM
I didn't say brooding, I just said better. You're right, Mario games don't need hugely complex plots, or deep characters. But it's not like EVERY Mario game involves a captured princess... they've mixed it up some before, they could do it again. See Mario 2, Mario Land 2, Wario Land (1, then the whole series, but 1 is the only one with serious Mario ties -- see the ending), Yoshi's Story... Yoshi's Island technically, but there it was just Luigi instead of Princess. But anyway, the point is, they could do something a bit different... they just don't. It's too bad.