SMB3 is not exactly horrendously difficult (and as far as I'm aware was not a tie-in?) and it sold quite well.
As for the TC, HoN.
Just... HoN. For anything to come remotely close to the HoN community it would have to resemble a circle of video gaming hell, because I swear to god this is the circle of hell where ragers get sent and the underworld administration wanted to try to make some money on top of that project.
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