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Message: [QUOTE="Gorse, post: 128926, member: 73"] This is an excellent point. I always mentally lumped in Other M with games like NSMB Wii or Donkey Kong Country Returns or Kirby's Return to Dreamland and probably a lot of other stuff coming out in the waning days of the Wii (2010/2011). They were all sort of "streamlined", "genericized" versions of their respective franchises – plastic-y, accessible, simple renditions of baseline series mechanics aimed at casuals who bought the console for Wii Sports. (There were other non-Nintendo games at that time that were geared a similar market, like Sonic 4.) I guess the fandom for platformer series is much more forgiving of stuff like that than Metroid fans! I don't really think that design philosophy is bad at all – some of those games were very good! – but it [I]is [/I]quite shallow, and I think it's the mentality that led a lot of longtime Nintendo fans away from the Wii U/several later 3DS games. [/QUOTE]

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