Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-33064970-20190418072655/@comment-27921095-20190814001104

Yeah, uh, I wasn't exactly supporting fucking Wall level Mario downgrades.

The scaling makes no sense because Bowser literally hides the Power Stars away and leaves his minions in charge of guarding them, but he himself has the "Power of the Stars" despite only seemingly possessing one giant one in his laat boss fight whereas Mario with merelt 10 or so can compete with him when 110 (130 or something in the remake) of the Stars are locked away or hidden and no noticeable difference is made from Mario with 10 PS to 120 of the things.

It's entirely too convoluted and contrived. Also, Peach can ise these Stars to "power her castle" and theu seemingly grant boosts, so how does Bowser still manage to overpower her with full access to these things? It's just like Rosalina's case. Occam's Razor concludes Bowser is more than capable of matching the output of the Stars/Peach/Rosalina on his own and that these things simply help boost him and others an unjustifiable amount. This is especially shown in Galaxy 2 were an empowered Bowser loses his power and tanks his large vortex/black hole's collapse and Mario damaged him despite being in base form and merely having a Luma in his hat that granted him the power to spin, which he doesn't even use in the boss fight itself. If we really wanma play Devil's Advocate, then Rosalina in 3D World can Star Spin as well and she's portrayed equally to the rest of the cast. Hell, she also needed Mario's help in both Galaxy games and couldn't do shit on her lonesome beyond astral projecting and helping Mario if he dies a lot.

The nuances are easy to pick at which just makes that whole rating seem like a means of downgrading what base Mario characters are capable of. We could easily extrapolate the same shit for Kirby and say that most of his impressive feats were done via using a special power-up or macguffin as well.