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When I saw this when I played Mario odyssey, I thought “well at least Nintendo hasn’t betrayed me” but I don’t know if that’s really true in actuality. Basically I thought the robots and level overall were inspired very clearly by Wall-E
And I thought the general idea was that you know, older things are good, it’s good to look to the past and find old relics, retro things are good. Salvage older things from the past, look to the past…which is strange because when Donald trump was elected all these retro things came out, there were a few stores that had retro items that opened around that time that I visited and I remember Quebec started all these partnerships
And trade deals with America and were obviously on americas side back
Then when trump was first elected and nationalism was a thing. But I was saying it’s strange because you don’t see anything retro anymore. When retro things started coming out people associated all that stuff with the past and Donald trump, but there was a
Lot of Japanese things too.
Well unfortunately the problem was, I wasn’t that old yet I was somehow a product of the past and all that retro stuff too I found myself almost in the same position as Wall-E I guess. So that simple image of Mario with the old robot and the old stereo dancing really phased me.
It seems like anything from those periods in time really offended people and the products that were released that seemed to be banking on those trends didn’t seem to last that long.
I don’t know if it was all really a product and result of nationalism at the time, which I wasn’t necessarily even in support of. For me, I merely wondered why everything had changed so gradually from those periods and the past in general, even compared to the 1950s.
Like it definitely got worse overall, in the times leading up to the present. Honestly being kind of conservative to the 80s and 90s (or the recent past in general) seems actually kind of liberal
