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Bowser always survives and shows up again in the sequels.
by saint_fiasco 9y ago
Bowser always survives and shows up again in the sequels.
- cma 9y agoAnd GTA has a limited pool of pedestrians that repeat themselves and return over and over.
- comex 9y agoThat’s different. In Super Mario Bros., every Goomba in the game is an identical sprite, but story-wise - to the extent the game has a story, anyway - you’re meeting a series of different creatures of the same species. This is evident if only from the fact that there are often multiple on screen at the same time. The more modern GTA has a variety of looks for pedestrians rather than just one, but the same principle applies: the NPC you just met might look identical to the one you killed the other day, but story-wise, we should assume they’re two different people - because it makes more sense that way and the game hasn’t told us otherwise. Bowser, on the other hand, is a named character with a specific personality. Combined with supplementary materials and (in some Mario games, especially the RPGs) in-game dialogue, it’s clear that he’s meant to be a single character who Mario (also a single character) encounters repeatedly.
- KGIII 9y agoI'd almost suggest that discussing the morality of pixel manipulation is a bridge too far, but this is sort of why I come here. I sort of now want a PETA for video game pixels.
- saint_fiasco 9y agoThey should make a GTA sequel where your nemesis is a random pedestrian that you ran over in a previous game without even noticing.
- d--b 9y agoI'm taking it as a different version of the same story. Like in Zelda. Link definitely kills Gannon every time...