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Disillusioned
Oh, great! So, will Mario become the official mascot for the Tokyo Olympics? When will these people ever grow up?
timtak
Mario turns its players Japanese, by letting them see themselves, as something cute, genki and lovable: a feature not shared by Western first person shooters such as COD (Masuda & Ishii, in preparation). Mario excemplifies the core of Japanese culture, provided by the mirror in the hearts: autoscopy.