User blog comment:Cassie Moats/My Overall Opinion on the Broodals + the Madame/@comment-5429417-20171024223849

Honestly, I'm excited there are brand new antagonists in an open world Mario game like this. Most of the games lately had the Koopalings in it and I think they were starting to overstay their welcome. However, bringing in fresh new antagonists alongside Bowser helps especially with the story of this game. Plus, I'd rather not see the Koopalings in a sandbox Mario game for awhile. SM64, Sunshine, the Galaxy games, and 3D World handled well without them since those games had unique characters/bosses into them.