I believe it was intentional and actually quite clever. Speaking of babies, a lot of people like to complain about Baby Mario crying being the worst sound ever in a game. Also, it's been over a decade since the whole Wind Waker internet meltdown and people are seriously still pissed off when games look cute? Personally, I think it fits the theme of carrying a baby around better than some mid-90's super realistic CG graphics would have looked (which is to say bad). I've heard that the visuals were done that way intentionally to rebel against higher-ups demanding more games with CG graphics like Donkey Kong Country. So it's kinda annoying that someone declares a game shit because it claims to be something it's not, when it didn't originally claim to be that in the first place.Īlso one of his arguments against it was that it had cutesy graphics. Problem is, it wasn't called Super Mario World 2 in Japan. It seems like Jeffs biggest sticking point is that they called it Super Mario World 2, and the game was so different from the original that he feels it's an insult.
