I read from one of the articles in which the writer expressed the opinion that Puzzle and Dragons should be a Pokemon game, and while it would have made for a logical crossover, I am quite grateful that the crossover focused on the Mario series because recruiting Mario enemies as a team sounds really awesome that I don't mind seeing a Pokemon game with Mario characters and the enemies as Pokemon. Yes, Paper Mario held the distinction of having enemies as teammates, but I won't say that it counts because those enemies are too friendly to be "enemies" (they have indicators to differentiate themselves from actual enemies in-game, such as friendly coloured bob-ombs vs enemy black bob-ombs).
By the way, why do we categorise all the monsters in Mario as "enemies"? I guess they are all called as such because they want to kill Mario, but I find such a categorisation funny, especially in this game's context. I guess there's no general category for monsters in Mario like in Pokemon and Digimon, so "enemies" is the only way to call them.
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