AzureTranquility95
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You have to play until at least boss 3, since it's the best boss fight in the game.
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Rumor: Paper Mario Wii U in development (Intelligent Systems)
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You have to play until at least boss 3, since it's the best boss fight in the game.
AzureTranquility95
Banned
If you're gonna factor in reprints, Paper Mario TTYD received at least two reprints, once when it went player's choice and again with the "best seller" logo on the cover. PM64 didn't receive as good of a print run due to being an N64 game released in the year 2001. I think the only 2001 N64 gme to sell really well might have been Mario Party 3.
EDIT: Dear god it finally happened. I double-posted by accident! My bad, mods.
I know it's echoing everything everyone's been saying in this thread, but I hope they got the message after Sticker Star that people want a real follow-up to The Thousand-Year Door. It's been over a decade now. A decade! Those Mario and Luigi games on the handhelds are good, but nothing compares to the N64 and Gamecube masterpieces. I was so excited for Paper Mario on the 3DS when the first footage came out and so, so bummed when I saw what it became and that it was the result of Miyamoto upending the tea-table again. Like Wii Music, it's a reminder that not everything he touches turns to gold.
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I'm pretty sure that "best seller" logo was always there, since I preordered the game and got it the day it came out (I was actually sick to my stomach and was home from school, and my mom went to Gamestop to pick it up for me to play while home sick. It made me feel way better, of course!) and my copy has it. I always thought it was funny, since they obviously put it on there before it had sold at all in the US.
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I'm pretty sure that "best seller" logo was always there, since I preordered the game and got it the day it came out (I was actually sick to my stomach and was home from school, and my mom went to Gamestop to pick it up for me to play while home sick. It made me feel way better, of course!) and my copy has it. I always thought it was funny, since they obviously put it on there before it had sold at all in the US.
DXB-KNIGHT
Member
Waiting Patiently....
I also pre-ordered TTYD and it has that ridiculous "best seller" thing. But my point wasn't that the first two games didn't sell well, but that Super Paper Mario sold really well with a $20 reprint on a crazy-selling console, and its four million or so copies contrast with Sticker Star possibly getting overshipped and put in bargain bins at two million units.
I really want Paper Luigi based on his the stories that he told Mario from thousand year door.
Going on an adventure with partners that despise you...Sounds good to me.
OricWindstar
Member
If it's anything like TTYD, that would be amazing. Still one of my favorite final bosses.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
I would love this, too, but not in place of a brand new adventure.I really want Paper Luigi based on his the stories that he told Mario from thousand year door.
Perfect for DLC, though.
EndlessFloydian
Member
Could mean absolutely nothing, but NOA posted this last July.
Gonzo The Great
Banned
Even if this is fake, I wouldn't be surprised if a new Paper Mario game is being worked on right now.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Shy Guy
Blue dinosaur thing from Mario World
Para-troopa
New thing (Maybe a cloud person in homage to Mallow)
Toad (not the Toad, a Toad)
Whatever Rawk Hawk is
Also a playable Luigi in some form or another.
Give me a duplighost partner.
RoyaleDuke
Banned
Can we have GENO back in the next Paper Mario RPG?
Please?
No?
Okay.
Please?
No?
Okay.
StormyTheRabbit
Member
Favorite game of all time. Have it sitting in my N64 right behind me. Thousand Year Door is even better.
My god I love this series.
Please don't break my heart again Nintendo.
My god I love this series.
Please don't break my heart again Nintendo.
User Name Here
Member
This reminds me that I still want a sequel for Super Mario RPG - Legend of the Secret Stars.
Hammer bro more than anything else.
Shy guy (with a spear)
Chain chomp
Fuzzy
Ukiki
Penguin
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
I'd love to see how they' make a Bullet Bill Partner.
Poltergust
Member
Funny, I just started playing Sticker Star today.
Don't make this game anything like Sticker Star, Intelligent Systems.
Hmm...anyone knows the origin of that Paper Mario?
Nintendo has been into handcrafted stuff with Kirby (clay) and Yoshi (yarn) and not only as inspiration but also using them for the games.
So..a Paper Mario made out of actual paper materials (like canson paper -as that image kinda shows..or just construction paper-) would be quite nice.
Instead of vectors which is what I'd expect anyway.
Poltergust
Member
How so? There haven't been any partner characters that are established characters of the series.
Dagobert Duck
Member
Last year pre-E3 we had this rumor about Diddy Kong Racing for Wii U...one year later I'm still waiting...
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
One thing that Sticker Star did I'd like to see more of is more canon characters getting into the mix...not at that expense of new ones, but I would like to see perhaps Bowser Jr., Wario and Waluigi, Daisy, hell, Donkey Kong, appear in somewhat sufficient roles and get some more character to them compared to the main series.
ChaosZeroX
Banned
Super excited about this. Just please don't be like Sticker Star. God that game was horrible.
I have no idea what to make of the source and am confused as to why we should take this "evidence" seriously. Then again I don't read Japanese so there's no way for me to judge? I'm lost!
I'd be psyched for a new Wii U RPG. However, I only played the first Paper Mario and didn't like it that much. A bit too simple for my tastes, though it did have a lot of charm. I heard TTYD was much better but I'll be holding on in case the game here is an HD remake.
I'd be psyched for a new Wii U RPG. However, I only played the first Paper Mario and didn't like it that much. A bit too simple for my tastes, though it did have a lot of charm. I heard TTYD was much better but I'll be holding on in case the game here is an HD remake.
it's just some guy from 2chan who went to a career thing. There is no proof other than the fact he went and Intelligent Systems was there and he talked to them.
He's been so succesful lately, from Super Mario Galaxy 2 to Super Mario 3D World to his own game Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, so I have a strong feeling that he's oing to be in.
Let's not forget galaxy 1.
I expect a cameo apprearance at best like toadette in TTYD.
Not sure where people are getting the idea that SPM was frustrating/tedious at times. I mean it was, but I remember TTYD being much worse about it, and often for no reason. Especially that part where you had to run all over the map multiple times. Almost killed my interest in the game until I got back to the good stuff.
Poltergust
Member
I mean, how is he a given in the context of a Paper Mario game? I can see him having a cameo appearance not unlike Luigi or Toadsworth, but a partner?
Yes bring the paper mario series back to consoles and leave it there. I always liked the idea of paper series for consoles and mario & luigi rpg series for handheld. Plenty of mario rpg love all round!
Edit - not to get too distracted but I wonder what alpha dream have been up to for the last (nearly) 2 years. ..
Edit - not to get too distracted but I wonder what alpha dream have been up to for the last (nearly) 2 years. ..
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thepotatoman
Unconfirmed Member
Yeah, you just can't get away with a Mario platformer style story combined with turn based RPG/adventure gameplay. You need the good story elements to carry the toned down gameplay of an RPG/adventure. I really hope they learned their lesson there.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
This better not happen. I just replayed it on GCN. Please, Nintendo, no.
fredrancour
Member
Wario & Waluigi RPG believe.
Or maybe something less likely to flush money down the drain.
Wikipedia sure does make it look like they basically don't develop anything except M&L rpgs and hamtaro games. Therefore the smart money must be on Hamtaro.
I can't imagine them getting large enough to make a console retail title so it must be downloadable or another 3ds game. If we don't hear anything this year i'll change that prediction to M&L NX
I think about half my posts on this message board so far are defending Sticker Star, but I do sincerely think it's the best game I've played since Persona 4 and probably the best game on the 3DS. It was the first time in years I actually felt clever solving puzzles, and that comes directly from its obtuseness. A minute observation (this fish inflates itself before it splashes on top of me) leads to a hypothesis (maybe I should use that pointy helmet sticker I saw earlier) and new observations (I need to pop that fish before it gets too big next time). It's trial and error, but it's thoughtful trial and error, and I enjoyed every time it tricked me.
There was a Sherlock Holmes game that was recently a freebie through Playstation Plus, but it never gave the feeling like I observed something and made a deduction. It was like one of those point and clicks where you go over every pixel until things work out. Sticker Star was the Sherlock Holmes game I wanted. Everything has clues, and unlike some other Nintendo games, the helper character doesn't point them out to you. "There are some animal tracks here. Do you have any idea what could have made them?" No one says that, and it's so refreshing, especially after trying to play Mario and Luigi: Dream Team.
The first two Paper Marios are frustrating in that they don't have interesting puzzles. There's very little insight to be had on the player's part, other than learning the timing of enemy attacks. When the games made me say "Do they really want me to do that?" as in the hamster wheel of Super Paper Mario, it was far less of a grind than regular RPG battles, and I hope the series goes further in that direction.
I'd love wario and waluigi to be rivals in any new title. Maybe not the antagonists but characters trying to save the mushroom Kingdom in their own way. Bumbling comic relief at its best.
A Mario RPG dedicated segment at E3 unveiling both a new Paper Mario and a new Mario & Luigi rpg title would be amazing!
Chapter 2-2 (whichever is the one where you need a million rubees) is repetitive and boring.
Chapter 4-1 and 4-3 are mazelike messes with poor controls to boot.
All of Chapter 5 is bleh. Especially the super fucking cryptic thing you have to do at the very start which I don't even remember anymore.
Chapter 6 is an interesting idea on paper but not all that interesting in actuality. It doesn't go on so long that it's too much of an annoyance though. And that stretch of empty white space you walk through could stand to be a bit shorter.
All of Chapter 8 is very samey. It's normal for Chapter 8 to just be one big dungeon in Paper Mario but each section in SPM is way too similar as opposed to PM64 or TTYD. It starts to drag by section 3 and at section 4 I'm just stuck wondering when it'll finally be over.
Also, in the hub world I never enjoyed looking for the heart pillars. In TTYD I was always excited to head back to the thousand year door and see what was up for me next, but in SPM I just wanted to hurry up and get to the next level. Tbh it felt like padding.
For the record, I don't think SPM is shit, but it's not that great either. It's just okay.