Why can't mario go back?
>>729384598Bob the Builder built a wall that's stopping him.
>>729384598You can never go home again.
>>729384598Hold over from the Sharp X1 original that used a cassette tape so you could only play games in one direction.
>>729384598Mario was still an inexperienced novice at the time. He had fought gorillas and turtles but this was his first battle against the Koopa kingdom. Overwhelmed by the magnitude of fighting a whole empire in a foreign land, he placed a mental block on himself, where he would never retrace his steps, so he would not turn tail and run.This is the moment Mario became Super Mario.
>>729384598because this is a cheap jap copycat thing, real video games weren't invented until The Last Of Us came out
>>729384598It's a statement on how he lives his life
>>729384598It's a metaphor on how you can't change the past
>>729384598It's a clever twist on the themes from Braid.
>>729384598This is how videogame were before they made them woke
>>729384598Mario refuses to retread the land he has already conquered.
Because bowser's back there
>>729384598If he looks back, he might see his wife's sad eyes and be forced to think about what he did to her.
