They do. In addition to experience to level up your paint meters, it's also the only way to get enemy stickers for combat.
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Paper Mario: Color Splash Hands-on Previews - "a far better game than Sticker Star"
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They do. In addition to experience to level up your paint meters, it's also the only way to get enemy stickers for combat.
Diprosalic
Banned
i already know that i'm going to like this a lot. i adored all the trailers and the Resque Squad shorts.
Enemy stickers look completely useless though in the footage I've seen.
"It ran away!"
I don't really mind memes of this kind because they still fit the context and are funny if you aren't familiar with the meme.
It's not like Toad's mentioning Harambe.
-shadow-
Member
Considering how terrible Sticker Star was that's not much of an achievement. But I do have to admit that the game looks absolutely amazing visually and from what I've seen far improved everything Sticker Star has done. It's just that the 3D object and the battle mechanics still look absolutely terrible.
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Why do I want this so badly?
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Why do I want this so badly?
Jonneh3003
Banned
Can you imagine aha
wild wild rice
Member
I don't think that really counts as a meme. I feel like I've been hearing lines like that since the Saturday morning cartoons of my youth.
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Deleted member 126221
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Considering I had fun with Sticker Star (yes... FUN!), this should be very enjoyable. Still a bit disappointed it's not a sequel to TTYD, but that ship sailed a long time ago.
I don't think Sticker Star was a bad game, but it's more that they ripped all of the charm and appeal out of the paper mario series and made something comparatively generic.
Telling me the gameplay is better, while good to hear, doesn't really do anything to stem my disappointment.
Telling me the gameplay is better, while good to hear, doesn't really do anything to stem my disappointment.
Orniletter
Banned
Because the soso overarching story, babbys first JRPG character progression and piles upon piles of slightly different NPCs were the real draw.
Face it, PM 1&2 were great because of their witty moment to moment writing, great leveldesign and gameplay, which all seem to be carrying over well to Colour Splash.
Green Mamba
Member
The villain twist has been revealed in video form (spoilers, I guess).
It's Bowser. Covered in black paint. And he kidnaps Peach. Wow!
At least he talks.
At least he talks.
edit: Turns out I'm mistaken.
You are right though that similar lines have been around for a long time, like Die Hard's "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..."
Calling it generic is a bit much seeing as how nothing out on the market plays like Sticker Star.
The writing seems actually strong in Color Splash.
Color Splash has the funny dialogue but nothing else you mentioned in this post.
Final boss is bowser again by the way because thats very original and creative. Fuck the Shadow Queen or Dimentio, we got Bowser.
Give War A Chance
Member
Not buying, but I'll play it.
I don't know why they are avoiding going back to the Paper Mario formula that everyone really loved.
I don't know why they are avoiding going back to the Paper Mario formula that everyone really loved.
God Sticker Star was the worst.
Actually, the gag is originally from the Asterix series of comics, and it goes all the way back to the 1960s. It was usually said by the Roman Legionaries ("Join the army, they said. You'll see the world, they said"), but it soon became a running gag and had lots of variants throughout the series.
ForkNetwork
Banned
Im caucious with this one honestly, Paper Mario 64 is one of my favorite games ever made but Sticker Star made me into the untrusty cynic i am today.I'll pick this one up eventually.
Dude its from well before a video game. Things like that were in Warner Brothers cartoons from the 40s and 50s.
Its a joke about joing the American or French Legion.
A quick google search shows in may have originated in an Asterix comic in France.
In other words its a very old joke/trope.
Hey stop talking bad about Sticker Star 
Not everything was awful!
Not everything was awful!
"This has none of that" pretty much tells he'll never give this game a chance and already judged it to be bad.
wild wild rice
Member
Risa Tabata might as well be like, "you want TYD again?"
And props to her for that. No lookin' back.
I think it just boils down to sarcasm and black humor.
GhostTrick
Banned
Sticker Star also had a fun writing. But in both cases, it's weaker than the previous games, because it's basically featuring Toads and Toads... generic ones at that. Sure, some have costumes. That's all.
That's disappointing.
Can we please get the awesome Paper Bowser from the original, TTYD, and SPM back?
For all that I've complained about Color Splash, I do enjoy that it seems to be getting back to the gallows humor of the pre-Sticker Star games.
I'm not as fond of the absurdist humor for stuff like the thing cards though. I like that style when done well, but stuff like the dancing pig just feels forced.
I guess im just old man yells at cloud at this point. I just need to stop posting in threads about modern Nintendo games.
I already spent all my hatred on threads about Mario Party 10, cant keep doing it.
Franz Brötchen
Banned
They'll never do a PM64 or TTYD like game again because they obviously don't want that. They chose to do Super Paper Mario next and self-proclaimed fans need to accept the developers' choices.
Without having played Sticker Star I can believe it had grave issues that will apparently be ironed out in Color Splash and I'll happily play that.
People calling the battle system bad are just baffling to me. I've played and finished TTYD last month for the first time and the battle system and the light RPG stuff is just the weakest aspect of the game imo.
I can totally get behind the developers' decision to not burden their great humorous games with protracting battles.
Without having played Sticker Star I can believe it had grave issues that will apparently be ironed out in Color Splash and I'll happily play that.
People calling the battle system bad are just baffling to me. I've played and finished TTYD last month for the first time and the battle system and the light RPG stuff is just the weakest aspect of the game imo.
I can totally get behind the developers' decision to not burden their great humorous games with protracting battles.
Bowser's the final boss in the first one and it's still a very good game. I like new villains too but Bowser being the main one doesn't mean much really.
Yoshi
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Writing does not magically become weaker just because the characters look the same. The overall presentation or humour may suffer though. I still think this problem is way blown out of proportion.
Im just so spent with Bowser and the Koopalings these days that i would take literally anybody else. The koopalings in this game dont even seen to interact with each other or be as funny as they were in Paper Jam. In fact their battles in Paper Jam were insanely unique and intense.
Vital Tundra
Member
Still doesn't change the fact that the old RPG mechanics were better, and the story and characters were actually interesting. Oh look, more generic Toads.
Precisely. I would like different characters, but that has no impact on the writing.
As usual, people won't give this a chance because it's not TTYD.
Franz Brötchen
Banned
Great observation.
We are dealing with fans whose feelings got hurt. They are just quoting any point that's different to TTYD as proof that it is one step further for them not caring anymore for the series.
Which is obviously not the case, duh.
It kinda does. There's no way we're going to get any Peach segments so Bowser being the main baddie means we won't be seeing much of the series' funniest character.
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