"I was thinking about that when FO was talking to me about the changes in Super Mario 64 to make the game easier. WHY make it easier? The game wasn't all THAT hard, imo, to begin with. Did people really complain about it? And even if they did, didn't some OTHER people like the challenge that was there? Why change the game to suit the first group exclusively? It's not even like the designers would have to craft new challenges; they could have just kept what was already there."

The sad thing is, SM64 isn't the easiest thing Nintendo has dumbed down. When you dumb down Super Mario World and freaking SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 for their GBA remakes, there has to be something up...

Then again, would you be able to make Lost Levels easier without taking its soul? I'm not sure I would want to make any games easier. At least games with legitimate "challenge."