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I haven't played them, but the NSMB games don't even seem that bad. They're just a way to make the 2D Mario games more accessible to modern audiences. Most Mario fans are going to vastly prefer World/SMB3, but those are old games and not likely to draw in the casual audience.

Like all franchises now, they just aren't pumping out great games at the rate they used to. But I don't think that means the series is declining. Odyssey was incredible, and there's no reason to doubt whatever the next 3D Mario will be. The only thing I'm concerned about is the death of Mario RPG games. I'm not sure they have any interest in that part of the franchise anymore.