User blog comment:Kagimizu/Oh F*** No.../@comment-878100-20110427144949/@comment-1669199-20110427184200

Well, of course Mario is gonna get the exact opposite treatment, his extremely high reputation and snowball-effect causing games make sure to prevent that. Mario, like Sonic, has beenh trying new ideas and elements with itself, and since its technically what you could call the gaming series that started the video game revolution, one would think that whatever gameplay elements (among other things) would be considered sacred by gamers and critics universally. Yet, it doesn't have this problem, at least nowhere near as much as other franchises do. Why? What a very good question.