It's fine for games in a series to be similar, but this takes it beyond that. This game has the same playable characters, the same enemy designs, the same stage locations and the same kind of music (part of the video had the exact same desert them ripped straight from SSMB Wii).
And I'm someone who played Mario from the Beginning. SMB1 started the series. SMB 2 went in a radically different direction as a modified Doki Doki Panic and had a completely new attack system. SMB3 returned to the Mushroom Kingdom, but introduced many new gameplay elements. Super Mario World left the Mushroom Kingdom and went to Dinosaur Island, which had new types of enemies and stages. See my point here?
The bad part is that I noticed the flawed wording right after posting it and knew someone was going to burn me on it. I left myself wide open, so fair game. :P
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