The black sheep of the ‘Mario’ franchise shines through with its originality and storytelling, and that terrifies players.
Today, Nintendo finally dropped Super Mario 3D All-Stars, a veritable collection of three of the best games in the Mario franchise, if not all of video game-dom itself.
As someone that has nostalgia for all three of these games in different ways, I was excited to crack into the collection. I started with Super Mario 64, not just because it was the first, but also because it was a game I never fully experienced, having never owned a Nintendo 64. Loading it up, the game shows its age for sure—the graphics are outdated and the camera controls are kludgy — but this was a revelatory experience when it came out, showing people the potential of playing in three dimensions. …
The death knell sounded for another Marvel Netflix show yesterday. Both companies confirmed that Marvel’s Daredevil wouldn’t be returning for a fourth season. Reasons abound for why this happened: Disney may have wanted to clean house before migrating everything to their upcoming Disney+ subscription service, Netflix may want to instead focus on shows and content that it has full control over, or maybe the show didn’t perform well enough to inspire confidence in a fourth season. Whatever the case, we lost something truly great with Daredevil’s cancellation.
You’ll have to forgive me if I choose to be more mournful about the death of Daredevil than Luke Cage or Iron Fist. Luke Cage did some truly great, if a bit clunky, storytelling about being a black man living with bulletproof skin, and how he chooses to serve his community and himself with it. Iron Fist, well, let’s just say I watched the entirety of those two seasons and Season 2 is a vast improvement over Season 1, which is a low bar. …
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