Uhhh.... Video games don't have to make sense. Mario touches a magic mushroom and he gets taller. He touches a flower and suddenly he can shoot fire now. He touches a "starman" and he's invincible for 10 seconds. But if the turtle walks into him, he's dead.

Games don't have to make ANY sense to be awesome. Heck, just look at Earthworm Jim.

I can just see what fans would demand if Super Mario Bros. 3, one of the finest games EVER made, came out today.

"these are the magical leaves of the mushroom kingdom! the lifestream gives them the powers of wind, embodied in the ancient raccoon spirit. When you touch a leaf, the raccoon spirit will come down in a 5 minute CG sequence and give you his likeness. When you have his likeness, you can talk to the spirits of the wind, but only when you can run fast enough to catch up to them! If you ask them nicely, they will lift your body up to the sky! And then you can kill hookers with the car you stole from the old woman, who you also ran over. Then you can steal drugs from the cop and use them, and you can even give them to the wind spirits to watch princess peach flash her naughties at you!"

Yeah... That sounds... *VOMITS*