I keep hearing Mario is milked. "Nintendo just uses same characters over and over..." stuff like that. But could we stop and think about what a "Mario game" is? Think about how many different types of genres we get that use the Mario character...
2D Platformer
3D platformer
RPG
Racing
Party games
So sure the Mario character is milked but whose to say that's a bad thing? There is a huge variety of "Mario" games that are all very different from eachother. Hell, even in the same genres, Mario games can be hugely different. The Mario and Luigi Series and the Paper Mario series both share some common elements but are pretty different in alot of ways. Not only that, but Mario games innovate in their respective genres. (See Super Mario Galaxy.)
So, yeah, Mario, as a character, is milked. However, the games he's in are various and many. And how is that a bad thing?
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