This is just another case of Nintendo being lazy, just because a games made for kids doesn't mean you need to make it so every 5 year old with a safety helmet on can figure it out till the end with no effort.
The Cupboard under the stairs is pretty much a JK Rowling twist on things. The idea of neglected children being hidden under the stairs is an old idea though, largely due to people having done things exactly like that. I think the earliest example of it becoming famous/pop culturery was when Wes Craven did the "People Under The Stairs" movie which took this to a horrorific extreme. I seem to remember it was based on a short story as well. "Flowers In The Attic" is also pretty famous but it switches the basement for, well, the attic, where the unwanted children are being kept, with routine attempts to poison/kill them. The old "Freddy's Nightmares" also did a take on this with a monster child being hidden in the basement, which apparently had shapeshifting/duplication powers and which swapped places with the girl who opened the door she wasn't supposed to.GonzoGamer said:Was the neglected child under the stairs always a "thing" or do we have JK Rowling to thank for that?
Oh wow, that hadn't even occured to me. You may be right on that one. Jesus...Teoes said:Sweet Zombie Jesus, was that a Jamie Bulger joke?
There's a difference between ruining a series and making it different. Not to mention he said that this game was nothing new for the series and just the same mario formula.itsmeyouidiot said:Once again, Yahtzee proves himself to be nothing more than a hypocritical douchebag.
You spend all sorts of other videos demanding innovation from Nintendo, and yet when they do decide to do something different with one of their series, you hate it on principle?
How the fuck does that work?
So our only two options are stagnation and crap?lord.jeff said:Would you prefer Paper Mario suffer from stagnation like Galaxy?