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Joker 1 also had almost no story, and the maps were very tiny islands with a mountain on them to make them feel bigger than they were. Joker 2's world is interconnected and filled with gigantic fields, and story events that happen in every area, with an actual supporting cast!
DQM1's problem was that it was mostly randomly-generated dungeons that tried to trick you into thinking they were an overworld, which had no story events in them. 2 has hand-designed worlds with their own stories, puzzles, and towns much like DQIII. It's ACTUAL DQ, with monsters!
Always felt like these three were like variations of the same character design: blue noseless sorceror wearing robes, with two things sticking off of their head, and a gold necklace with a red gem... and a desire to stick out their hands.
It's very interesting reading a Batman who's not rich, and the city is actively fighting him. Gives him a much more everyman Peter Parker kind of feel. It's like reading Nightwing or Red Robin, but it's about BATMAN. Very new territory for this 80-year old character.
People joke about how they realized that people like having crushes on the professor, but they really dropped the ball in Galar...
In between, Nintendo had shown trailers and gameplay footage for XI S, and I was genuinely interested and watched all of it. So there's a good chance I would've gotten into the series regardless of Smash, but that cross-marketing worked so, SO well.
The left is one panel using metaphor to allude to Batman and Reverse-Flash having met in a previous story. The right is a page and a half of inner monologue telling you the origin stories of Flash and Reverse-Flash, and their powers.
The original Superman is still wholesome as fuck and I love it, though. It's funny, Superman's appeal is so simple that people can't grasp it, making it "complex". We're all so jaded that we can't appreciate someone being fucking nice. We're like "yeah, so?"
Have it take place during an election campaign, and Luthor runs against Cal. Use Luthor as a clear Trump allegory, who manipulates media and conspiracy theory culture. Make it a story where Superman can't just save the day with punches, it's a battle of words and choices.
If it's a remake, you can make the characters look like this if you want. I wouldn't mind.