AmnesiaMaster28 : I actually appreciate that comment. I knew Zero Mission was the remake, but I didn't realize I made that typo in my review. Thanks for pointing that out for me.

From what I see, Sonic tends to run into the exact opposite problem that Mario gets into. Many people complain that Mario does the same thing too often, shown through the New Super Mario Bros series, along with some of the other platformers. Well from what I've seen, Sonic tends to do the opposite. When they find something that works like the way Colors and Generations played, they try to find a new gameplay style. I see why they do it, fear of the games becoming stale, but it also seems to lead into a lack of quality. When you create an entirely new way to play, it tends to lead to the game being like a test. Lost World was a game that had mixed reaction, and that's easy to see why. Sega was trying that kind of gameplay style for the first time. I think if they stayed with one style for a few games and fine tuned it, I think Sonic would be able to be in some more good games. Though for anyone worrying that Boom will kill the series due to it's negative reaction, it was made by Big Red Button, not Sonic Team. So hopefully Sonic Team will have some good ideas for the next game in the main series.

Double posts happen sometimes. You don't need to worry about it. Anyway, I kinda thought that was the point of this thread, seeing what discussions both sides could make. I see how the magic might be against what some people want, but the Mario series has always been one that focused on not really caring for the plot details. Magic normally is just a way to explain things. Though, for technology.. Suppose Professor E. Gadd is the closest the series comes to sci fi, seeing he makes all those inventions.. Though, if you want a pure sci fi Mario, the Super Mario Bros movie is the closest the series ever comes. And that movie really took that concept and dropped the ball, so guess that wouldn't be a great place to check.

Oh I know you meant that the series could be re-written with the sci-fi elements in place and it'd still work. But it seems like it's personal preference on if you prefer magic being there or not. Some people prefer the magical element in the series. I have to say I like the inclusion of the magical elements. But if you'd prefer a sci-fi approach that's your right. If anything, a version of Mario with those elements would be pretty interesting, just wouldn't fit the series as it is currently.

The thing about the Mario series is that the entire series is based around magic with each game. Bowser had black magic in the first game. The second game had magical dream fairies.. (I forget the exact names) The third game had magic wands, Super Mario World had the magical Star Road, and so on. It all comes down to the Mario series being a heavily magical world, where the magic is used to increase the creativity you can put into the game. The Mario world without magic would be without power ups, some types of enemies, and other things. Even if magic can be kinda lazy sometimes. The plot of the original game was that Bowser had conquered the kingdom with magic, and only Princess Toadstool's magic can undo the curse he had placed. So from the beginning, the series was pretty much founded off using magic as a story device.

FaithFighter :   Well I suppose that is a problem for Ridley returning. They cloned him in Other M, and by the time of Fusion he's simply a frozen corpse of a clone. I doubt any DNA would be getting around if he was frozen. Plus even if the X with Ridley's DNA did get anything on Samus' armor, she's not going to be exactly giving her suit to the Federation. So I suppose the largest chance we'd have is either them having saved some of that DNA that went into making Little Birdie, or a purely mechanical form with no biological components. Or maybe components from some other creature. And a Transformer-style enemy could be interesting, though I'd have to play it for myself to be sure. If anything, I just hope to see a sequel someday. Perhaps with another remade Mother Brain that actually does give a very difficult boss fight. I suppose Phantoon would be the only boss I can imagine making an easy return. Seeing its appearance in Other M, it definitely has potential to be boosted farther then what it was in Super Metroid. I also would love to see more creations from the Federation. Nightmare went to show what they did when making weapons of war. If that's any indication of what they create for battle, I want to see more of those kind of things as boss creatures.

I'm not quite sure about the Phantoon theory. Though there's no ruling it out, seeing how little we know about Phantoon and how different sources seem to scale it differently and give it different abilities. I always thought that a sequel would end up being about Samus fighting the Galactic Federation due to them hunting for her. Of course this would give the chance to run into some more classic bosses. I wouldn't be surprised if the Federation tried to remake Ridley in order to have him hunt her. Though, I'm stumped on what the final boss would be for a game about Samus vs other humans. Suppose that might be partially why it hasn't been done yet. They don't want Samus going around blasting at human troops just sent to apprehend her.

Well, except the obvious pun, I wouldn't say Luigi really sucks. He tends to be afraid, but that's at least something of a character. It doesn't help that Mario is pretty much the straight man, bland character. Luigi just tends to be the one with a discernible personality. Then comes the RPG games where he has a lot of fun interaction. He's either telling you about his own, heavily made up and much more impressive in his own head, adventures that even his party members mention as false. He also has a decent enough plot in Super Paper Mario. He even gets partial final boss privilege alongside Dimentio. Overall, I'd say Luigi is more of an interesting character. He also completely curbstomps Mario in Super Mario 64 for DS. Play that game as Luigi and you'll never want to go back to playing as Mario.

Oh that's not even getting started compared to some of what has been said in the Japanese games. The Sinnoh Folk Story 3 he gave was actually from the international release of Pokemon. The original Japanese version didn't state that Pokemon and humans ate at the same table. In the Japanese version, they used to marry. So, that gives a lot of strange reasoning behind Pokemon like Jynx/Lucario/Kadabra... Anything in the human-like egg group.. And take into account that humans and Pokemon used to marry. I'd say there are some questions you don't want answered.

It all depends on where the battle is. In game, I mostly focus on just offense. That's mostly all you need to beat the trainers in game, where PP is more important then a large amount of strategy. In competitive play though, I tend to try to use a mostly disruptive approach. I place hazards, use Knock Off, pretty much try to ruin any strategy my opponent had planned. Then I use my bulky Pokemon to take hits and attack back, or I use my stronger attackers to knock them out before they can even move.

Sonic.EXE is another one of those famous creepypastas that really doesn't seem to cause as much fright as people say it does. It's simply a kid getting a game from a friend, playing it, "spooky" stuff, evil Sonic saying he's god, and a plushie... The sequel was apparently trying to fix this kind of thing, and went into a lot more depth. Unfortunately, the depth just made it run on and on. The first one was at least easy to read in a few minutes. It doesn't help that the sequel tries to depict the protagonist as a detective with a decent amount of experience, while he acts very immature and idiotic through most of the story.

With Sonic.EXE and it's sequel, you really have to pick your poison. Do you want a bad story that only wastes five minutes of your time and gives barely any reason? Or would you prefer a drawn out, overly long story with more description, but none of it is really scary? (Plushie cameras, I'm talking about you)

I always thought Ninjis were kind of overlooked. They only appeared in Mario 2, Super Mario World, and some of the spin off stuff. They're not the toughest enemies, but a ninja enemy would work pretty well in the newer games. I'm still not sure if they're a kind of cat or what though.

Sop is pretty much right with everything he said. Keiji Inafune left Capcom, and wanted to make a new Megaman game. Obviously he can't do that, since Capcom owns the character. He decided to create a game a lot like Megaman, even with the robot main character and power copying ability. It's not a Megaman game though, just heavily based on it in some aspects. There are some differences though, like the protagonist's power working differently in some ways, what seems to be a focus on quicker gameplay, and a few other things seen so far in the trailers. The game is a lot like Megaman, but just different enough that he can make it and hopefully not get sued.

As it's already been said, the music was good to a lot of people. It can be pretty hit or miss, but I think it was decent enough all around. The story though.. I'm just going to guess you never beat the whole game, since you just say Team Flare's goal is "We're gonna take over the world.." If you have played it all the way through, it's a tiny bit more complicated then that. The bit of social commentary in the story is a bit weird though.

Well, the next Sonic game has been announced.. While it might be alternate universe, it still counts I'd say. Surprisingly, it's not Sonic Heroes 2.. It's apparently a much different game, with four characters you can switch between, design changes for all the characters, and a different style of gameplay for each person. Tails seems to focus on ranged and Amy acrobatics. Knuckles will likely be for power and Sonic for speed. So, while everyone has their own use like Sonic Heroes.. It seems like a much different game overall, especially since it's being made by former Naughty Dog employees.. Remains me a bit of Jak and Daxter though.

I've never played the game myself, but I've seen walkthroughs and Let's Plays. They all make the game seem kinda fun, but overall a bit disappointing. My advice would be to rent the game if you can. Once you've rented it and know if you like it or not, choose to make the purchase if it seems like it's worth it. So far, it seems like a very polarizing game. So, hard to give exact advice on if you'd enjoy it or not.

Well, at this point, Kenji's kinda making his own spiritual successor to Mega Man. I doubt Capcom would get rid of the series completely, since they can still make a new Mega Man game with NES-like graphics and sell it for a quick amount of profit. I see Capcom just holding the series and not doing much with it, while Inafune works on Mighty Number 9.