>>713800504
>endearing protagonist
As yes, middle-aged plumbers, how can you not like them
>colorful visual style
A lot of preeschool shows have colorful styles, does that make them cinema?
>catchy music
Anyone can achieve that. Hell, mario isn’t even known for its music like say sonic. His series is known to always knock it out of the park with their music, what notable OST’s have ever come out of a mario game, let alone any single song
>intrinsically satisfying core gameplay mechanics
The industry has those in spades, mario ain’t special in that respect