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Can we talk about how brave it was for Mario to use his stardom to publicly affirm his longtime coworker Bowser's gay identity in a major release all the way back in the 90s? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It was super (mario) controversial at the time, he put his career on the line and evangelical groups wanted his head, but he ended up being on the right side of history.

He showed that giant turtle dragon dinosaurs of any orientation can make it to the top, and be flung face-first into a spiky floating sky mine.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Mario may have laid the ground work but the genre didn't really solidify until the release of Castlevania 64 added 3 crucial elements:

Not knowing where to go because every environment in the game looks the same
Bullshit fights where you just spam the same attack and dodge
Spooky

Because of this I prefer to call the genre mariovanias