It is because Mario Galaxy Expansion Pack stole it.
For Mario 5, what we got instead was a generic mountain level or a generic ice level or something else like that. In my Parody section (which only has two posts), Parody #2 is about how 3d Mario and 2d Mario co-exists. They co-exist by having 2d Mario delayed for eighteen years and when it finally appears, the game and its consumers are treated like second class customers. The 3d Mario gets the big budget, it gets the orchestra, it gets the graphical bells and whistles, and it gets to be delayed so “it can be perfect” (both Galaxy and Galaxy Expansion Pack were delayed). And it even gets all the cool 2d Mario worlds like Giant World. What’s next? Bringing back the Tanooki Suit in 3d Mario while giving 2d Mario something lame like a propeller suit?
Giant World in 3d Mario doesn’t make sense anyway. You can easily walk around the giant creatures. In 2d Mario, Giant World changes the gameplay in that Mario has to make higher jumps to jump on a goomba or jump on a block. A giant koopa troopa in 2d Mario takes up almost a quarter of the screen. But a giant koopa troopa in 3d Mario can easily be sidestepped.
Everyone has asked for over fifteen years, “Why does Nintendo not put out what we want? Why is there no Mario 5? Why did they take out the Tanooki Suit? Where is Giant World?”
Nintendo knows what you want. Miyamoto knows what you want. But they have stated they don’t want to do it. It is no other way to explain why there has been no true sequel to Super Mario World for eighteen years. You would think that with the N64 and especially after Sunshine, Nintendo would realize the failure of 3d Mario. But no, Nintendo’s software developers are interested in only what they want to do. Don’t like the art style of Wind Waker? Too bad. They’ll just use the art style in the handheld Zelda games. Wondering where Giant World went to in Mario 5? That is because it was put in Galaxy Expansion Pack. 3d Mario still gets priority over 2d Mario despite how much the market prefers 2d Mario.
Why? It is because Nintendo software developers believe they are creative masterminds (despite not having made anything ‘creative’ in terms of an imaginary universe since the 1980s). This is why we are getting titles like ‘Other M’. If you do not like ‘Other M’, then you do not understand the genius of Sakamoto!
Remember, when Miyamoto says 2d Mario and 3d Mario co-existing, he means 2d Mario being delayed for decades while giving ridiculous budgets of full scale orchestras to 3d Mario. And when 2d Mario re-appears, the only advantage it has over 3d Mario is that it is wrapped in red plastic. Whopee. I waited 18 years for this?
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