Paper Mario: Color Splash

June 23, 2016

Nintendo Denies There’s A Gamergate Reference In Paper Mario: Color Splash

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Fan reaction to the E3 footage of Paper Mario: Color Splash hasn’t been kind. People say it looks dull and uninspired, and that the Paper Mario series is just churning out sequels at this point. We had yet to hear, though, that the game was promoting hate speech, until Zoe Quinn spoke up. For those who don’t know, the entire Gamergate movement began with a viral testimony from a bitter ex-lover who discovered his girlfriend had been cheating on him with five separate people, gaining her the nickname “Five Guys” (after the burger chain). It really should have stopped there and been forgotten within a week, but then some wingnut put forth a grand conspiracy theory with Zoe at its center: The men Zoe slept with were all working in the game journalism industry (only one connection was confirmed, an ex she was no longer seeing) Zoe is a game designer (but barely — her one “game” was a text-based multiple-choice mechanic she released for free) ZOE SLEPT WITH THOSE

June 16, 2016

E3 2016: New Paper Mario Plays Like Sticker Star

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Paper Mario is one of the more interesting titles in the Nintendo lineup. On one hand, it has the simplest visuals of basically all the Nintendo games, as its literally paper. However, especially in the early games, it’s battle system was deep, and thus gamers loved it. Because of that, it kept getting sequels. However, after the much beloved Thousand Year Door, Paper Mario slowly began shying away from the RPG aesthetic. At E3, IGN got to do a behind the scenes demo with the newest Paper Mario: Color Splash, and slowly realized it was playing a lot like the most recent, and most reviled, Paper Mario game, Sticker Star. Out of curiosity, they asked assistant producer Risa Tabata about why Paper Mario was shying away from the RPG elements: “Really making this game started with the idea of wanting to use cards,” she explained of the decision to develop Color Splash. “Since you’ve got this parallel Mario & Luigi RPG series, we definitely wanted to make a distinction between