Are Nintendo themselves unoriginal?

[cheat-master30]

Because as I said before, there are a lot of re-used ideas in their games, often brought from one series to another. A few examples I can prove of this are:

Huge Ghosts made of small ghosts:

Boolossus is made of 15 Boos, and is in Luigi's Mansion.

Jalhalla is made of about 15 poes, and is in the Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker.

Atomic Boo is made from 50 Boos, and is in Paper Mario 2.

Pits of many trials:

The Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker had the 51 floor savage labyrinth.

Paper Mario 2 had the Pit of 100 Trials

Twilight Princess had the Cave of Ordeals

Super Paper Mario has two pits of 100 trials and a continous battle vs 100 enemies in a row.

Little unoriginal don't you think there? Think they really, really overused that side quest idea? Oh, and all had a difficult challenge at the end, normally a boss.

Vacuums and Poltergusts:

Luigi's Mansion had the Poltergust

The Minish Cap had you capture a ghost in the Gust Jar, and you could also capture Ghinis in it.

Mario Party Advance had a gaddget, similar to the Poltergust, called the Porta Gust.

And Mario Party 7, had a coin vacuum, also by E Gadd.

Just some quick examples of Nintendo non originality. Plus, who says going around planets is original in Galaxy? Note how you went right round a planet against Rapheal the Raven in this Yoshi's Island boss battle:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RU_ZbSe-FcM

[caprontos]

honestly... "The Minish Cap had you capture a ghost in the Gust Jar, and you could also capture Ghinis in it."

i wasn't aware of that ? an i got 100% :P haha

[cheat-master30]

Yep, and if you want to know more about the first one, that was how you got the Light Arrows. You can also suck in other small enemies like Octoroks and fire them at other monsters, and you can kill Beetles and I think Keese by using the gust jar.

[caprontos]

thats cool i never really used the gust jar :P haha i did get the light arrows

[cheat-master30]

I sadly missed them, but am never starting that game again...

[Dr.Aaron]

Yeah I kinda noticed that there's like a 100 Mario based games, I know they're good but it is unoriginal, but I guess it's best to go with the titles that make the most money eh?

[cheat-master30]

I know. I also know of a few games with Mario in the title for no reason other than probable increased sales:

Wario Land Super Mario Land 3 (you only see Mario for like 2 seconds in the ending)

Yoshi's Island Super Mario World 2 (only see Baby Mario, nothing like Mario World 1)

Now, both those games are good games, but neither are the typical Mario games expected from the titles. And both are some of my favourites overall.