im making sure you don't forget the idea of drawing Samus as Rio from Lifeline

I hope you don't mind but I made a cart out of your fanart

I think it's more likely that this was a normal fixed stat growth but they mistakenly lined up Mario and Luigi with Bowser's. I wonder if there's any remnant of a table that might be their intended stat growth

One of the comments says the remake doesn't have this so I could see that.