Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1031724-20160315220335/@comment-24658561-20160324121921

I think that Sonic deserves better. He has the potential to beat Mario by miles but SEGA just kind of doesn't seem to get that. All the potential, all the characters, all the possibilities... Wasted and flanderized for lame comedy that will be outdated by tomorrow combined with levels that don't connect to the story. The main series Mario games aren't something Sonic should take inspiration from. You beat them once and then never play them again. If I want to play a good Nintendo platformer, I play Donkey Kong Country, not Super Mario Bros. The RPGs however were great. Super Mario RPG was fun and had some really hilarious as well as heartwarming moments. Then they made two RPG series that both used elements from SMRPG. Paper Mario 1-3 did a great job in world building and character portrayal and had big epic stories. Mario&Luigi 1-3 on the other hand was the comedic side of the RPGs with genius writing, lots of cartoon logic and things a regular Mario game wouldn't even get away with. And then came the trainwreck known as Paper Mario: Sticker Star which not only ruined the gameplay the first two games had but also got rid of the story, characters and worlds that made the first three games so enjoyable and replaced it with a bunch of paper jokes that fell flat on their faces. The Mario&Luigi: *insert something gimmicky here* Bros games were not as bad as Sticker Star, they were fun but I noticed a decline. Both games had a relatively standard story with Bowser as the main antagonist and tried way too hard to be funny and quirky. It seems that Nintendo wants Mario&Luigi to be more important and demotes Paper Mario to extra, even going as far as saying that it's not an RPG anymore. Which is completely idiotic because you can't compare these two series, that would be like comparing oranges to lemons: Sure, they're both citrus fruits but they need to be used in a completely different way to be tasty. You can't make orange juice out of lemons and expect people to like it.