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k.rool is dk franchise. get over itHonestly, I thought adding another Donkey Kong character would just add to Mario's overrepresentation.
So, if we count DK, Yoshi and Wario as part of the Mario series...Honestly, I thought adding another Donkey Kong character would just add to Mario's overrepresentation.
DK has been his own thing for a while now, though, with the exception of occasional crossover games like "Mario vs. DK".Honestly, I thought adding another Donkey Kong character would just add to Mario's overrepresentation.
They were both in Mario Super Sluggers in 08. K.Rool being in Smash Bros took him from being near extinct to talk of the town.DK has been his own thing for a while now, though, with the exception of occasional crossover games like "Mario vs. DK".
Mario and KRool have never been in the same game until now, same with Diddy until Brawl.
That's not true to be totally fair. Diddy was in Double Dash before Brawl, for instance. And K. Rool was in Mario Super Sluggers. But I believe those were the only times unless I'm forgetting some. But absolutely agree that DK, moreso than Wario and especially Yoshi, is a completely separate franchise from Mario, despite the crossovers and shared origin.DK has been his own thing for a while now, though, with the exception of occasional crossover games like "Mario vs. DK".
Mario and KRool have never been in the same game until now, same with Diddy until Brawl.
Give me a break.Diddy's been playable in a lot of Mario Sports games. Mario Golf Toadstool Tour, Mario Kart Double Dash, Mario Power Tennis, Mario Superstar Baseball, Mario Hoops 3-on-3, Mario Strikers Charged, Mario Super Sluggers, Mario Sports Mix, Mario Tennis Open, Mario Golf World Tour, Mario Sports Superstars. And Mario first appeared in the first Donkey Kong game. So Donkey Kong part of the Mario universe like Wario and Yoshi so DK characters like King K Rool do add to the Mario over representation. Giving series symbols to Donkey Kong, Wario and Yoshi is just an excuse to count spinoffs as their own universes.
I’m shocked no one has corrected this yet.@Verg. Where you at
Ack, that's right...That's not true to be totally fair. Diddy was in Double Dash before Brawl, for instance. And K. Rool was in Mario Super Sluggers. But I believe those were the only times unless I'm forgetting some. But absolutely agree that DK, moreso than Wario and especially Yoshi, is a completely separate franchise from Mario, despite the crossovers and shared origin.
No one is arguing that they're spinoffs, but the spinoffs don't involve the original universes even one bit, and that's the point.Giving series symbols to Donkey Kong, Wario and Yoshi is just an excuse to count spinoffs as their own universes.
It seems like people confuse "Shared Universe" with actually having a separate Franchise.Give me a break.
The Donkey Kong and Wario series have their own cast, settings, gameplay styles, and tones completely separate from Mario. Yoshi isn't quite there yet... but Yoshi is also usually more involved with the mainline Mario games than DK and Wario are (which is to say, at all).
If K. Rool is a Mario character, then so are Banjo-Kazooie and Conker. They exist in the same "universe" but they are franchises unto themselves.
And I feel like it matters very little in games where the "universe" we're in is a hazy concept at best.It seems like people confuse "Shared Universe" with actually having a separate Franchise.
Like, no **** Mario, DK and Wario exist in the same universe, but they each have their own game franchise. This is undeniable.
I pointed out that Mario/DK/Yoshi/Wario represents about half of all Nintendo console/handheld games sold, and that's not counting the fact that they also represent a disproportionate amount of their revenue from other media (Mario has had multiple TV shows, for example, DKC had a TV series and DK was a major part of Pixels) and especially merchandise. Mario games, especially Mario Kart and the main series, are also tentpole games that actually sell consoles, so they boost the sales of other series too. So how exactly is it overrepresented, given that it has 10 completely unique characters, one sort-of-clone (Luigi), one semi-clone (Dr. Mario) and one Echo (Daisy)? That's about 18% of the roster, or 20% of the first-party characters... How is that too much for a group of series that represents like half of Nintendo's business?Diddy's been playable in a lot of Mario Sports games. Mario Golf Toadstool Tour, Mario Kart Double Dash, Mario Power Tennis, Mario Superstar Baseball, Mario Hoops 3-on-3, Mario Strikers Charged, Mario Super Sluggers, Mario Sports Mix, Mario Tennis Open, Mario Golf World Tour, Mario Sports Superstars. And Mario first appeared in the first Donkey Kong game. So Donkey Kong part of the Mario universe like Wario and Yoshi so DK characters like King K Rool do add to the Mario over representation. Giving series symbols to Donkey Kong, Wario and Yoshi is just an excuse to count spinoffs as their own universes.