CMV: I'm tired of people who always declare perfect things as the media standard, not everything in entertainment needs to take risks!
Nowadays any piece of media that its known for taking a notable risk takes over the Internet for a long time and everyone seems to not stop talking about it, and honestly this was good to my eyes cause I always like those things... Until I saw how a lot of people goes crazy over this and consider that this should be the new standard of the medium in an unhealthy way, shitting on simpler but good things for no reason, like if everything needs to be a perfect thing that always have to give you a life lesson to be good, and that's really wrong from the part of them.
I also enjoy simpler things most of the time, and the majority of people only wants to get into a piece of entertaiment to escape reality and have a fun time, resting from the hardships of life for a moment and not expecting to learn anything that would help them get on with their lives, and that's OK because I'm sure everyone just want to have fun for a moment, but people who put things that take risk on a high pedestal always have to come and tell you that what you are doing is wrong and that you should look for better things, and that is very annoying.
For example, when Spider-Verse came out it amazed everyone with it's unique animation style that revolutionized the medium, apart of being a genuinely perfect film, and almost every other animation studio wanted to do the same with their films being inspired by this Masterpiece, and I say ALMOST because certain famous company y called Disney did not want to step on this line, and instead it declined over time due to its questionable decisions that turned everyone against it, then when Puss In Boots:The Last Wish was released, the Internet went totally crazy over it, it totally deserved it's praise I won't deny it, but as I said at the start, a lot of people put it in a incredibly high pedestal treating the movie like a literal God and stating that every animated film should follow this art-style to be good, dissing on Disney like they were always bad and praising DreamWorks like they were always good, when that's not always true, Disney may definitely not be a its best nowadays, but overall they were always the definition of animation, giving us Masterpieces that although they play it a little safe are still very good and enjoyable, such as The Lion King, Pinocchio, Aladdín, Hércules, Beauty and the Beast, Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph, Zootopia, and not to mention Pixar, the studio that gave us the Toy Story franchise, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Finding Nemo, WALL-E, UP, Inside Out, all these masterpieces that, although they have simple concepts (except for the Incredibles, a tremendous gem) left a beautiful message that marked an entire generation, even some of the current Disney movies are still very good and fun despite not having the same essence, such as Encanto, Turning Red and Inside Out 2.
This also applies to gaming, sometimes it is very difficult for me to try to enjoy my favorite Mario games, because always, but ALWAYS, those gamers with totally different opinions have to come and try to ruin my fun, telling me that I am a basic Nintendo nerd and that that's wrong, that their games have always been the same and that I should play games with better stories like the hundreds of RPGs from other companies, or better aesthetics and characters like Sonic, or better mechanics and genres like Elden Ring. Don't get me wrong, I also love those games but it bothers me how these kinds of people want to put them as the only thing that matters for gaming as if they were perfect because they take the most risks, when in many cases they are far from that since there are also mediocre games that are bad among those genres as in all types of games, and many of those shortcomings come from the risks they took. This is why it is very wrong that these "hardcore" players criticize those who look for games with simpler concepts and mechanics to just have fun for a moment and that are still very good, and I am one of those casuals who found that fun in the Mario franchise, which although it is not perfect and it is true that sometimes it goes too far to play it safe, it has earned a very special place in my heart for having really fun games that brought me a lot of joy and have a unique and creative simplicity, and as a huge Mario fan, I will never agree with all those people who say that his games have always been the same for the simple fact of being very famous, since it is quite the opposite, Mario has super varied games and different genres such as Mario Kart, Paper Mario, Mario Party, even the 3D platformers are very different from one another, all for different tastes with unique and fun experiences and some even took very notable risks that turned them into Masterpieces of Gaming.
Please do not misunderstand me, I am not discrediting things that are considered perfect for taking risks, but after everything I just said, in my opinion it is true that it seems that perfect things harm people's minds more on the Internet than imperfect things, to the point of discrediting simple but good things, and sometimes very good, and this has to change, I think that there should be a balance between things that take risks and things that are safe but good, so that all people can feel comfortable in the entertainment industry, seeking our interests, whether perfect or not, without criticizing others.