What did you like about this game?

I agree with you there. He helped, but only for himself. He still had dumb moments, like eating at Fawful's feast, but that was because they appealed to his ego after the cage fight. I thought that was a nice touch. Then he went right back to fighting the Mario Bros. after the final battle too. I really liked that.

He wan't supposed to feel like a bad guy in Super Paper Mario, since he was an ally. Just cranky. He was dumb though, for comedy. Thousand-Year Door started that trend with him talking to posters. Although, RPG also had a similar role, but played straight instead of completely for laughs.

Oh, I see. I don't even think he is always that evil. Guess that is why it did not stand out too much for me

How evil do you think he is?

I consider Bowser to be one of the most evil characters in the franchise. He's a greedy, egotistical tyrant with delusions of grandeur and he absolutely loves every minute of it.

However whether or not he is THE most evil character in the franchise is definitely up for debate.

I saw playing tennis with Baby Mario the other day as his partner. He even changed his diaper. Definitely not evil.

Yes, that was a joke. Spinoffs do not count. He is evil in Mario Party though. Taking stars and forcing everybody in bankruptcy.

I already say my point of view, i think it's nice Bowser's character developped to the point he became the final boss.

Now my only two problems is that i think the twist could have been done better (IMO, i would have liked if neither betrayed each other and stayed togheter for the final boss but well...) and Antasma's character and treatement...

I mean he is basically a generic Dracula rip off with a male cackletta appearance whose only purpose is to serve as Bowser's taxi, considering that he is a RPG villain, this is pretty jarring, specialy considering that the other villain that also was inspired by Dracula was none other than Count Bleck and he was pretty unique in term of appearance and personality.

That's true but at least BIS showed that they are still alive in Bowser's freezer, implying they could come back and get character developpement, Antasma just plain explosed.

Count Bleck is based on Castlevania Dracula, as both lost a loved one and became evil beings bend on ravaging the world, they also draw their power from a chaos entity (IIRC it is said on Villain wiki and Tv tropes). But as shown, they took inspiration from Dracula and made him something unique, unrecognizable from the other.

Bowser is technically the same, he is inspired from the Great Ox King (or King Gruesome) from Alakazam the great with Kajiu vibes but they managed to turn him into a very unique villain unrecognizable from his inspiration (through if you look closely you can still see that Bowser has some ox features on his face)

When i look at Antasma all i see is "Male Cackletta with Slavic accent that die in a very anticlimatic way" hardly unique if you ask me.

Personaly, should Antasma come back, i think they should redesign him, the ressemblence to Cackletta work as a homage (it the 10th anniversary of the series) but if he is gonna get an arc like Fawful, then make him his own unique character, so peoples don't go "i through it was Cackletta" but "hey Antasma is back", they can just make a bullshit reason like "Antasma was really an unique villain who got cursed into a bat which is why he ressembled her, when he exploded, the curse broke and now he is back in his true form"

Also make him hate Bowser's guts and actively try to make his life miserable, it would definitely help setting him apart from other villains (as far i'am concerned there is no villains which truly antagonized Bowser, so it could be interesting, specialy if the next game is a BIS sequel)

As i said, i got it from villains wiki and Tv tropes, so IDK (through you gotta admit the wardrobe and the fangs do give him a vampire feel)

This is the point, keep the bat and nightmare motif since he is inspired by vampires but make him unique and memorable, that all i want.

At least they wont have to explain why the antagonist would oppose Bowser, might give also a bit of character developpement for him since he never faced a villain who was actively trying to kill him.

But yeah i'm all ok for playing Bowser again (guy should really get his own series)

Well, Smithy was more like against the whole world and Fawful originally didn't actively try to kill him first (he more like considered Bowser like a pawn for his grand plan, when Bowser started meddling with his plan, he became more involved into killing him)

Antasma would be trying to kill Bowser right in the beggining (might lead to a scene where he end up as the tutorial boss like in DT)

Actually, Bowser would lose, then Nintendo will erase him from the history books.

All Bowser fans will be rounded up, sent to an island and sunk halfway there!

Well I don't think there is any proof that Miyamoto or Tezuka said they have to use Bowser.

In the platformers at least they keep using him due to there being very little story overall so why bother introducing a new villain there that wouldn't really get any development?

Well Miyamoto hasn't really been a major part of Mario development in years other than token bits here and there.

Well 3D World was pretty good without Miyamoto involved, Yarn Yoshi looks ok so far so I'll give it the benefit of the doubt.