Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze

[E-Man]

Do you mean Super Mario Bros. 2?

Funny you should mention that, Kriven. Since Super Mario Bros. 2 was released during an age when the Mario games were still new, no gamers would have imagined how iconic Goombas and the like would become years later. Sure, they were a big part of the game, but the enemies in Mario were nowhere near as popular as they are today. In this day and age, any new Mario game released now without the staple enemies would be hard to imagine.

This along with with how the enemies in that game became icon Mario enemies since then are the reasons why I felt it was unnecessary to mention it.

And yet whenever a new Mario game pops up, the first thing I see many people complain about is that Bowser is back. True enough you generally don't see people complain about Bowser's minions, but I tend to see the minions and the leader as a single bundle.

Well, not all Goombas and Koopas follow Bowser. It would be interesting to see what the Mario games would be like with a different antagonist for a change. They did something like it in Zelda games, so I'm sure the concept would translate pretty well in a Mario game (if you count the Mario RPGs, this is already successful).