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Which Paper Mario Game is your Favorite?

  • Paper Mario

    Votes: 173 23.3%

  • Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

    Votes: 356 47.9%

  • Super Paper Mario

    Votes: 124 16.7%

  • Paper Mario: Sticker Star

    Votes: 19 2.6%

  • Paper Mario Color Splash

    Votes: 9 1.2%

  • They're all good imo

    Votes: 62 8.3%
  • Total voters
    743
So this Arlo video brings up that interview that was discussed here before but what was new for me, I may have just misunderstood it before, is that the club nintendo survey that the internet has talked about for a while was specifically about Super paper mario's story instead of stories in paper mario as a whole. Honestly I can understand that the story in there was off-putting cause at a certain point you realise it just mostly revolves around two original characters and their love drama and people who just like mario and the gang may find that frustrating. Though it just sucks that it started a snowball effect that lead to Sticker star and beyond.
 
Finished this last night. Quite enjoyed it though it seems quite short, though that might be because even by Paper Mario's standards it's really, really easy.

I'll never think about Bob-ombs the same way again though. :'(
 
I'm now at the 4th ribbon, am I the only one who got irked by lack of facial hair on the toad? Yes they have more uniform variety than color splash but it all the five color toad (red,yellow,indigo magenta and green) without any kind of variety and it's always the same face. Even in the very first paper mario you can see toad with moustache/beard and a variety of color
 
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AmarettoPie said:
..but only if they keep Mario & Luigi around
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Bad news chief...
 
So, unsurprisingly, there's at least two glitches in the game. One involves using a ticket to get into the hot springs and the game can forget that you gave the receptionist your ticket to permanently lock you out of that area and the rest of the story if you handle this the wrong way. The other just presents you from 100% the Toads if you neglect to collect a certain one before you leave a city.
 
NerdShamer said:
So, unsurprisingly, there's at least two glitches in the game. One involves using a ticket to get into the hot springs and the game can forget that you gave the receptionist your ticket to permanently lock you out of that area and the rest of the story if you handle this the wrong way. The other just presents you from 100% the Toads if you neglect to collect a certain one before you leave a city.
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please be more precise I'm not in the spring yet and I don't want to fuck up my save file after all those hardship...(euughhh the fire elemental)

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When you get your job as a game journalist but want to show your ''so smart' because you studied feminist social science
 
Just beat it. I thought it was a great game for the most part. Battles got a bit tedious at times, especially late game when you've bought everything and the main reward for fighting is now not needed. Also thought the ending was really well done and genuinely emotional.

The glitch he's talking about is very late game. You get a VIP Card to enter a hot spring, but apparently if you try backtracking before finishing that part of the story the card disappears and you can't get back in, softlocking the game. Or something like that. You can avoid it by just pushing through the story when you get to the Spring of Rainbows.
 
I've played a couple hours of it now and as much as it pains me to say it, I fucking hate it. The battles are tedious and the plot's just ... empty. It may only have been 2 hours of gameplay, but it dragged like it was 4. Maybe I'm just not far enough into the game to get to the good bits, but good god is it awful so far.
 
So the stupidest thing in the game is that the chapter bosses are animate versions of tools you'd use to make origami. They're completely non-anothropomorphized and look like the things from sticker star. If you can remember the bowyer/rose town bit from SMRPG, imagine that except bowyer is a photorealistic bow with no legs/arms/face, that's your typical TOK conflict setup.
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Wich make me think if paper mario origami king did go further down the SMRPG route with more anthropomorphized tool/weapon with paper eye and arm.. Obviously they will be more memorable and less a joke
 
It says something about the combat that there's an achievement for fighting 300 battles and that's considered a high number you're unlikely to hit during the main story. I'm not sure on how many other RPGs tend to have but I remember an item in FF6 that takes 255 battles to uncurse and if you pick it up as soon as it's available and do all the sidequests it winds up uncursing itself before you finish them.

Just wandering said:
When you get your job as a game journalist but want to show your ''so smart' because you studied feminist social science
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Of course that reviewer left out olivia screaming about 'what did they do to the vellumental' every single time before *it* attacks you, plus the fact that all of them presumably get restored via the same method used to rescue Peach in the ending.

PsychoNerd054 said:
I think I remember the second to last chapter having new enemies that were basically just cutout shadow people. It’s kind of a shame they didn’t go all the way with just making new enemies like that to get around the mandate. I felt there was a lot of potential there.
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That whole bit and especially the shadow hand boss made me feel like there may have originally been a ttyd shadow queen callback due to the similarity of the design and peach-being-mind-controlled motif. Weird they just crammed all of that into one minor area you run through once as part of a fetch quest.
 
moocow said:
I've played a couple hours of it now and as much as it pains me to say it, I fucking hate it. The battles are tedious and the plot's just ... empty. It may only have been 2 hours of gameplay, but it dragged like it was 4. Maybe I'm just not far enough into the game to get to the good bits, but good god is it awful so far.
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Did you see the auctioneer, yet? It's the only good thing about the first chapter.
 
I'm rather curious, how is the Mario & Luigi series compared to the good Paper Mario games?

I just ordered a refurbished New Nintendo 2DS XL and Dream Team, so I'm interested in trying the series out.
 
Vault Boy said:
I'm rather curious, how is the Mario & Luigi series compared to the good Paper Mario games?

I just ordered a refurbished New Nintendo 2DS XL and Dream Team, so I'm interested in trying the series out.
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In my opinion the only games worth playing are Superstar Saga and Bowser's Inside Story. The rest of the games are merely "okay" and uninteresting. It's sad because playing as Bowser in BIS is genuinely some of the most fun to be had in the series but instead of moving forward with having new party members that are fun to play (more Bowser, Wario, etc.) they completely retreated from the idea and just started adding overworld gimmicks. To be fair I haven't played Paper Jam and that adds a new character but I've heard nothing but bad things.

For the record, the remakes of the aforementioned games are serviceable unless you're some kind of hyper autist that thinks an NPC that appears on screen for 5 minutes being replaced by a different character is seriously worth disregarding a game. Some of the charm is lost in the designs but it's either that or emulation. So it's up to you.
 
Vault Boy said:
I'm rather curious, how is the Mario & Luigi series compared to the good Paper Mario games?

I just ordered a refurbished New Nintendo 2DS XL and Dream Team, so I'm interested in trying the series out.
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The first one's a riot, but the remake lowered the stats for most of the bosses and reworked the one's in the final world to be more...different. Plus, it comes with an explanation for some of the holes in the original story. Everything else aside from Dream Team is essentially hit or miss in terms of the plot, but it didn't go completely down the drain like Sticker Star did.
 
NerdShamer said:
Everything else aside from Dream Team is essentially hit or miss in terms of the plot, but it didn't go completely down the drain like Sticker Star did.
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does this mean dream team is the best for plot or its the miss catagory, L being real got me in the mood for some luigi core titles
 
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