Super Duper Mario! (A Really Super Mario Adventure!)

[Hoeloe]

I wasn't saying that's what you intended, but that's all you get out of it. It's fine that you wanted this to be a Mario game, but that doesn't mean it has to use Mario. Take Okami, for example. I strongly suspect the studio behind that made it with the intention of making it with a similar formula to Zelda, but they didn't make it a fangame.

It can be both successful and a Mario game... if you're Nintendo. Fangames are NEVER as successful as original ones.

That's good to know, but really, you could just as easily have TWO. I'm sorry if this sounds harsh, but people here just don't want to see you waste what looks like a really cool game on yet another Mario fangame.