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>>9151660
To be fair, early Mario sequels made it a point to NOT take place in the boring Mushroom Kingdom: SMB3 was in the Mushroom World, SMW was Dinosaur Land, SM64 was the castle paintings/walls, SMS was Isle Delfino, etc. Even the Mario RPGs used to pretty much go beyond the Mushroom Kingdom. People like to retroactively pretend that only the Game Boy Land games had Mario visit different locales, but that's far from true. Mushroom Kingdom was basically just Super Mario Bros. and The Lost Levels, and all New Super Mario Bros. intended to do was establish the modern Mushroom Kingdom aesthetic. Granted, Mario still explores different places in the non-NSMB mainline (and it's telling that the only non-SMB game included in the pic is SM64), but hard-mandate retardation prevents the style was veering off too much now.