Good insight. Is the game actually beatable, though, or is it just continuous play and trophy hunting? To clarify -- does it actually have an end, like Fallout 4 or most other games?

Actually, technically worse, Mario is a mass murderer of the Mushroom Kingdom inhabitants themselves. If I remember the instruction manual lore from the original game, King Koopa transformed the mushroom people into bricks. So ... every time you played and jumped to smash a brick ......