This guy isn't a real journalist, but enough people read him that I think posting his latest rant in here makes sense.
http://seanmalstrom.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/now-we-know-why-giant-world-wasnt-in-mario-5/
He's throwing a poop fit over Galaxy 2 getting the "giant world" and "Mario 5" allegedly nothing but getting table scraps. Oh...where to begin....
I'll try.
Now we know why Giant World wasn’t in Mario 5
It is because Mario Galaxy Expansion Pack stole it.
I'm assuming Mario 5 = NSMBW? I guess he doesn't count the Super Mario Lands, Yoshi's Island, Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy, or NSMB DS as Mario?
Only one of them is "Mario 4"?For Mario 5, what we got instead was a generic mountain level or a generic ice level or something else like that.
I sympathize.
As for the rest, here's a summary: he assumes Nintendo began work on another 2D Mario after Super Mario World, only to delay it for 18 years and somehow turn it into New Super Mario Brothers Wii, which he calls generic.
He complains that a level design from Super Mario Brothers 3 wasn't shoehorned into New Super Mario Brothers Wii, though it appeared previously in Super Mario 64;
but he considers 3D Mario a failure and probably never played it, and it wouldn't matter if he did since Nintendo "hasn't made anything ‘creative’ in terms of an imaginary universe since the 1980s".
So he wants Nintendo to be creative by ripping off Super Mario Brother 3 and take the development resources of the failed 3D games and putting them into orchestrated music and nice graphics for the next 2D Mario.I'm assuming his parents went through a nasty divorce sometime around 1996 and associates 2D gaming with peace and happiness; a time when his parents still loved him... a time right before he destroyed his brain with illegal substances.
EPILOGUE: It doesn't matter, he's not going to be playing any more games since they went with the new DVD cases.