Paper Mario

September 14, 2023

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door Getting Switch Remake

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If you don’t believe Mario’s finest hour in the RPG genre was his original effort (Super Mario RPG, coming to Switch November 17), then you believe it was Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, originally released for the Gamecube in 2004 — and never again. Most gamers consider this to be the best title in the Paper Mario series, and it’s become nearly impossible to find an affordable copy. But have no fear….an HD remaster has finally been announced for next year! While traveling across the Mushroom Kingdom, Princess Peach docks into a coastal town called Rogueport and comes into possession of a mystical map that reveals the location of seven Crystal Stars. When collected, the stars will open the titular door, and behind that door is an immense treasure. But someone wants that treasure for themselves and kidnaps Peach before Mario can meet up with her. Fortunately she had the good sense to stash away the Map, and now that Mario has it, he can track down the stars

December 2, 2021

Paper Mario Joins Nintendo Switch Online Mess December 10

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Nintendo Switch Online’s Expansion Pass was made active last October and immediately ran into a firestorm of bad PR. Customers raged online about the poor emulation, the blatant input delay issues, and the outrageous price hike ($50 a year as opposed to the normal flavor’s $20 a year). Nintendo released a statement last month that kinda-sorta suggested they were taking the complaints into account. “Going forward, we will continue to improve and expand both Nintendo Switch Online and Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack striving to provide services that satisfy consumers,” they said. They didn’t directly address any of the specific problems, and if they’re working on them, we wouldn’t know. What we DO know is that they plan to continue the drip-feed schedule for Nintendo 64 as they did with NES and SNES, and it starts with Paper Mario. The announcement was made this afternoon that the original two-dimensional RPG would be added to NSO December 10. It’s a paper caper! Paper Mario, originally released for the Nintendo 64

May 14, 2020

Paper Mario: The Origami King Coming July 17

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There was no Nintendo Direct today, but we got an out-of-the-blue announcement regardless: there’s a new Paper Mario game coming, and very soon. “Two months” soon. If you’re the paper version of Mario, you have more to worry about than just Bowser. Paper has many natural enemies: fire, wind, water. We don’t know where getting folded ranks, but it must be near the top of Paper Mario’s anxieties. It’s even worse when an origami-themed enemy shows up and transforms Peach into his minion. The scene where Mario finds out what happened to Peach is what opens the trailer, and it is actually rather creepy. She comes out looking deformed, moving in a stilted manner, and asks him with slow, tinkling text if he will “crease himself and be reborn.” It doesn’t matter what Mario says, she throws him down a trap door either way, giving new meaning to “being dumped.” Mario’s latest nemesis is King Olly, ruler of the Origami Kingdom, who’s invading with his hand-crafted army of terror! He’ll

August 8, 2016

This Paper Mario Glitch Takes 4.5 Years To Pull Off

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Remember last April when a glitch in Paper Mario was discovered that would take 416 years to execute if attempted? The same man who discovered that glitch has unearthed another one. It turns out plenty of time-related bugs exist in the game due to no scripted limit being placed on them. One such glitch occurs during Peach’s cake-baking minigame. At a certain point, Peach is instructed to make a cake, place it in the oven and leave it inside for approximately thirty seconds. There’s no on-screen timer or any other indication of how long 30 seconds is. The player is expected to guess. To give some leeway in this task, the game will accept anything from 23 seconds to 36 seconds as a perfect cake. But the time limit can actually be stretched farther than that. If you simply leave the cake in the oven, there’s no point where the in-game timer stops counting. It’ll just keep adding +1s until it reaches the maximum amount the CPU can calculate (4,294,967,295),

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