I loved those games, I think they are great, but I'm a moonlighting webcomic and I needed a way to keep a timeline or story and frankly I just wanted to create my own little mario world. I picked and chose which ones I liked and would include in the story is all, and I chose to leave Mario Kart, Party, and Sunshine off the map as it were, it makes my job fairly easy and not to mentio I never liked the story of Sunshine, the game itself was a blast. and because of the way I have everything set up it makes YI and YS a bit off so I just leave them out too...I loved both games however. I'm sure I'm not explaining this very well, or how it really should be, but Mario to me will always be Super Mario Bros. 3 so anything sufficiently different from it always seems a bit off. but no, I do enjoy all the mario games