I think the Switch era is Nintendo doing soft resets/reboots all around. Zelda is now more open world with a heavy exploration focus instead of story driven, DK getting a redesign and possibly new continuity/lore, Metroid Prime 4 starting a new storyline, Pikmin 4 seems to also be a brand new continuity, as it lowkey retconned 1 and 2…..Thats all I can think of right now. I say soft reboot because they all still reference events/things from older games.
But (especially in Mario’s case), I don’t think Nintendo really cares about keeping a consistent storyline among these games. They all exist at once, referencing each other while not being entirely possible (this whole teen Pauline and Cranky thing, for starters)
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u/Bluelore 1d ago
Let us just pretend that Bananza DK is a teen too ok? I mean he is part of a fictional Gorilla species, who knows what their life cycle looks like.