Talk:Genre

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Do we really need this? Hello, I'm Time Turner.

Yes.--FREAK ~Game Freak~ OUT!

Do we really really need this? It's me, Mario! (Talk / Stalk) 21:58, 19 December 2014 (EST)

Apparently, yes. I'm open to discussion for the latter, though. Hello, I'm Time Turner.

Yes. The writing could be better, but having a convenient all-in-one listing of the genres the Mario series has taken, along with a description how it twists/play straight genre tropes, is interesting and informative. imo the relative dearth and recent culling of articles relating to the gaem (as opposed to in-universe and out-of-universe) subjects of the Mario franchise is unfortunate. --Glowsquid (talk) 22:08, 19 December 2014 (EST)

Right now, maybe it's just me, the page is pretty useless. I don't see how this specifically relates to the Mario series since "genre" is such an extremely broad subject, and considering that other forms of media have their own genres (and Mario has nonvideo game media, just not on a as grand scale). Maybe I like gutting generic things I personally find useless, lmao. I imagine, nowadays, that if this page was theoretically not here yet, it wouldn't be created ever. As for the culling of the Mario pages, eh, we still have platform, lava, spikes, Game Over, Glitch, Continue... maybe Genre can be rewritten to serve as much purpose as "Glitch". But much like "player", "genre" is even more generic, and unlike "Glitch", still pretty useless (in its current state, at the very least). It's me, Mario! (Talk / Stalk) 22:21, 19 December 2014 (EST)

Create a more specific definition of "Party".

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I am really unhappy with the "Party" section of this article. It's being really vague and loose, and that is frustrating. I feel like our definition of Party game doesn't work in part because of the breadth of the genre, so adding literally any detail disqualifies something classified as a Party game from the group. I think there are two possibilities.

1. Buck traditional convention and saying the Party genre consists of two separate but intertwined subgenres: "Minigame Collection" (perhaps "Minigame Compilation") and "Digital Board Game". "Minigame Collections" often include "Digital Board Games", and a "Digital Board Game" is a popular way to structure a "Minigame Compilation", but WarioWare demonstrates a "Minigame Collection" which eschews a "Digital Board Game" in favor of the Action genre and Fortune Street demonstrates a "Digital Board Game" which only has minigames in a minor role instead of being a "Minigame Collection".

2. Change the definition to specifically care about multiplayer and creating a space to socialize, as per Party video game from Wikipedia. This further removes single player WarioWare games from Party and puts them in the Action genre. Really, the cause of the definition stretching is WarioWare, simply booting it from the team resolves the contradiction. This is technically less than official, as WarioWare Gold is called an Action and Party game despite mostly being single player. [1] (Get it Together and Move It are also Action/Party games according to Nintendo.) While I'm a stickler for facts, Nintendo does not define the Party genre and I also like having functional definitions.

I prefer option 1 over option 2, because option two requires saying Nintendo is incorrect. Salmancer (talk) 18:39, May 25, 2025 (EDT)

Yakuman DS is a puzzle game?

That doesn't seem right. For one thing Yakuman DS is a mahjong game, specifically riichi mahjong. For comparison the original Yakuman for Game Boy is considered a "Board game" or "Tabletop game" and more accurately describes that genre of game. Unless I am missing something, there doesn't seem to be any "puzzle" elements in this. I'm not quite sure if you can even compare this to Mario's Picross in terms of genre. -- Bro3256 (talk) 07:00, June 21, 2025 (EDT)

You are correct. This is a virtual board game similar to card games like poker, solitaire, or hanafuda. It's pretty silly calling mahjong a puzzle game. It's me, Mario! (Talk / Stalk) 02:11, June 22, 2025 (EDT)