With the new Donkey Kong game changing the origins of Pauline and some events I know about the DK timeline, as well as how Nintendo stated (again apparently) that Mario and Peach are just “good friends”, I wonder if they are trying do a soft reboot the Mario timeline/franchise?
With how long Mario has been around and all the good and odd games that have come out since, I honestly wouldn’t blame them if they wanted to try and do this to streamline things a bit or make things less confusing.
Maybe they thought fans would be okay with this, similar to how the Legend of Zelda series has several timelines and they seem to have fun figuring things out and how BOTW seems to combine everything.
If Mario had to be rebooted what would you want to change?
I do like the theory of Wario and WaLuigi being brothers that got separated at birth.
I also recently watched this Ask Mario video that teased at the idea of King Boo being the ghost of Bowser’s dead brother. It would be funny if Luigi’s enemy turned out to be related to Mario’s arch nemesis.
Maybe to make everyone happy Nintendo creates some kind of "Marioverse", since multiverse storylines aren't going away anytime soon. This way everyone can be happy if they ever do decide to reboot things.
