I donno. I personally hate the lack of creativity in Mario stories as of recent. I mean, I know, it's Mario. At its core, most Mario games need two scenes, one where Mario learns he needs to rescue the princess and one where he rescues the princess, but it's a shame they don't have a little more creativity with it. Maybe someone else kidnaps her; maybe she doesn't get kidnapped right away; maybe they're on vacation when it happens. These are all 3 different plots in Mario games (NSMB, Sunshine, World); yet the more recent ones don't seem to vary it up even this much (props to 3D World for doing so, though).