>>36454293It's been 22 fucking years, and this franchise has proven it's willing to revert back to the state it was 20 years ago and pretend everything between then and now never happened.
It's one thing to pay tribute to your successful origins, it's another to pretend it's the only part of your history that exists.
That's like if Mario suddenly remade SMB1 in 3D but removed everything except the Babby Mode Powerups.
