Official mario games and blandness

[TheBossCDA]

Why do the official mario games feature levels that look kinda bland? It's especially weird since so many fan projects have highly detailed levels and intricate, non-blocky terrain, and other IPs like Donkey Kong Country and Wario Land are passed it.



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My theory is that Nintendo wants to keep accessibility first, and level simplicity is a good way to achieve that, but in my opinion, you should be able to achieve good direction with any level setup if you try hard enough.

What are your thoughts?

[ElectriKong]

Nintendo Level designers are worse than their fans

[Cedur]

same with Sonic Team xd

Long answer short, both franchises are hold dear by some people with really extensive skills.

[MegaDood]

Not really. I mean I guess the idea is that you'll focus more on the gimmicks than the scenery. SMBX can have gimmicks, but it just seems to be better with nicer environments.

[thunderlakitu]

Because Nintendo have to make the soundtrack, the graphics, and the game as a whole.
While users here use music from other games, graphics from packs, and they just have to worry about make the level and decorate it.
Also Nintendo cannot spend a whole month in just one level, but we can, we don't have any limits except for the ones that we put ourselves.