Like any other fanbase, certain sects of the gaming community can get a little … intense. Today that troup's target is Paper Mario: Color Splash, the newly announced sequel to 2012's Paper Mario: Sticker Star and the continuation of Nintendo's longstanding experiment with Super Mario RPGs.
Paper Mario: Color Splash was announced during a Nintendo Direct held earlier today and, within 30 minutes of its trailer debuting, already had a petition on Change.org calling for the game to be canceled.
On some level, I totally get it. If they remade my favorite game of all-time, a Japanese role-playing game called The Legend of Dragoon, as a driving simulator, I might get pretty upset at the creators.
But to create a petition to cancel the game after a one-minute trailer? That might be going overboard.
It's worth pointing out that not everyone is on-board with the whole pitchfork and torches movement. One of the people who signed the petition said, "You may think this petition is childish...because it is. I'm only signing so I don't have to deal with all of these babies bitching about 'Sticker Star 2' for years to come since I've already had enough of them not playing yet still complaining about Sticker Star."
While a vocal minority throwing stones is nothing new, the speed at which people put down a game that no one knew existed before today is a frightening example of how quickly, and harshly, we judge games we know next to nothing about.
