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I mean I agree with you but people see what they aren’t getting & try to pin the blame on something, which in this case is the shadow council & still to some degree Miyamoto.It still seems edgy, I feel like it's turning into "eating crackers" meme. The single player in Aces may not have been the RPG people wanted, but it had a ton of characters and courts and played great, And Waluigi now has an awesome new animation, but people want a crotch grab. It just seems silly.
And the still stand by that the shadow council part is tin foil hat nonsense. With Paper Mario, what he said is they had leeway with original characters. And of course, internal EPD can do what they want, and heck, Mario and Luigi had the same weird off center quirky designs as always until the end.
As for Tananbe it really seemed like he was trying to redirect the blame elsewhere. But that is another conversation for another day.