thank goodness. then explain to me what you meant, if it wasn't that.
I guess I should have gone ahead and done that in that last post, because apparently that's what you need to hear.
Like you were saying earlier, It's all about the fact that he doesn't lend any seriousness or actual utility in his design that gives the freedom to represent Mario in just about any fashion a designer may choose. It's Nintendo that's taking his image far too gravely, because they think that by presenting anything that isn't completely 100% homogenized or family friendly, that the character will lose his whimsical appeal.
I'm not saying Mario's general design is not conducive to his functions as a video game character, and if you got that from what I was saying earlier, it seems like you should be the one giving the explanation, not me. I am saying is that each new design of him does not lend itself to very well to the function in regards to why Mario is an appealing design in the first place. Nintendo isn't doing any of their games a disservice by changing Mario's appearance, because expectations are easy to satisfy as long as he fills his game play functions. All I'm saying is that in each new design, they keep doing the character itself a disservice because it generates less and less appeal by continually moving farther away from the qualities that gave him his unique sense of appeal in the first place!
Think about it like this: If Nintendo uses the ideals they apply to redesiging their already popular characters, into making a completely
new character that nobody is already intimately familiar with, would you reasonably expect it could be even half as popular as Mario himself? If they tried, would you even remember the new character long enough to actually notice that they even tried?
If you are old enough to remember me referring to Mario potentially becoming the next Popeye, it's a lot like that. Remember those newer Popeye cartoons where he suddenly did a lot less fighting, got three disney-esque nephew twins that were still butt-ugly because they had to look like him and he started opening BOTH eyes instead of only one? I mean if you are going to remove everything that makes him distinct in the first place, why the fuck should you even still call him Popeye? Wasn't the popularity of that name generated from all the features that kept him "unappealing" in the first place? Nintendo is using the exact same line of logic when they keep trying to make one of history's most popular characters "even more appealing than he already is".
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