This is a weird complaint to have but I am genuinely confused and disappointed by the latest Nintend(tm) Game's title screen.
The company has a long tradition, particularly with big name Mario titles of putting a certain degree of love, care and creativity even in things as redundant as a title screen. They're an element of computer games that have been a redundant formality since the arcade era ended but they still serve a valuable role in setting the tone and expectations for a game.
Like take SMB3 the curtain opens on a play that demonstrates... forms of play. You quickly see that the world has fundamentally changed in apperance from SMB1's Mushroom Kingdom and that there's already an embracing of Mario's artifice. Mario's not just about moving to the right anymore; it's about embracing the act of Play through the medium of, well, A Play.
Or how about SM64? We're entering a bold new era of game design, so here's some familar aspects presented in a new light! There's the same ol' Mario Song(tm) and the face you know, but now you can mess around with the concept of the third dimension in a completely safe space before being thrust with a move list larger than Alien Soldier's!
Even in later Mario entries well past the fundamental rendering or controller shakeups there's this air of creativity and joy to them. Galaxy's bombast, 3D World's weird diorama of lil guys messing around a playpen and so on.
Compare them to this weird prerender I've shamelessly grabbed from a longplay on Youtube. It's the same prerender shown in all promotional material and the game's box itself. It feels like a mobile game. Just slap a still image in front of some very slightly animated instructions text and move on. It speaks to a lack of ambition that feels incredibly strange for a game that's billed as "Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy: The Game".
I'm not sure if it's a harbinger of dark times ahead for the Big N, a unique mental bugbear for myself or a moment in time where a New Super Mario Bros. entry (a series that has always kinda been presented as second-fiddle to the big 3D titles) received more promotion than precedent normally allows.
