Board Thread:SMG4 Discussion/@comment-36426936-20190203214947/@comment-38355399-20190620203649

Desti wasn't a very good character in my opinion to be honest, and even if the Multicolored Marios were to be brung back, they'd still have a limited personality and unbalanced amount of humor in them. X, to be honest, didn't have a clear and straight personality, to which even FM could do things better than him.

Now that the modern characters are here, they have a whole set of significant problems much more prominent than past ones. For instance, Meggy and Tari are here almost entirely for the purpose of younger fans to be satiated (the latter for Meta Runner promotion). Meggy shows most of the time to be a Mary Sue, or one that seems immune to flaws. While a couple of weaknesses (cooking and anime) were created, they weren't really enough to be a consistently enjoyable character. Thus, she perpetually remains as a below-average character in my eyes, even with the slight improvements of her character in the anime arc. Her human design is a significant change doing more visual harm than good, as while her human prospects could be touched on, her character has permanently changed, most likely for the worse.

Tari is probably the worst character in SMG4. Ever since her debut, her funny moments are almost entirely nonexistent. Coupled with her basic and underwhelming personality + voice lines, she makes virtually no impact to the plot, wasting valuable time where she could thrive in her own universe: Meta Runner. Her actress, while I think would do well in her own universe, does very poorly as a main character. Coupled with the fact she doesn't even belong in the Nintendo universe, Tari has always been among my least favorite characters, alongside Saiko, Boopkins, and Axol.

While every character has potential to improve, unless they make a HUGE change to the plot, making them appear in the episode basically misses valuable opportunities for other characters to make funny moments.