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Super Paper Mario Reviews
It pains me that it even holds the paper mario name. Not enjoyable by any stretch. I feel like I'm playing super mario brothers and that's not the feeling I want to have when I'm playing a paper mario game. bad. The whole point of paper mario was that he was 2d in a 3d world.
If you have not tried the first two paper mario games I'm sure you'd really enjoy this game, but coming from that background this game is a huge let down. I dislike the style of play. I absolutely LOVED the first two paper mario games. But this wii version is atrocious. I understand the "flipping" concept in this game but it's just well.
I've tried and tried to give the game a fair chance and to get into it, but I just cannot. The gamecube and n64 versions were fantastic, I could play them over and over again, and I do.
Fantastic game. minutes of clicking thru inane dialog just to get to the first 'chapter' of actual game play. VERY FUN. but it took 23 (). If they would only have an option to skip past all the story/crap it'd be perfect.
Super Paper Mario's gameplay is relatively easy, but its often opaque puzzles can quickly make it frustrating. It costs less and is a vastly more satisfying game. This installment of the series does away with turn-based battles in favor of what is basically platforming gameplay with RPG elements (e.g., hit points and levels), and the integration is surprisingly smooth. On a different note, the game's English translation sparkles, with distinct and often hilarious dialogue for each charactera good thing, since this must be one of the talkiest Mario titles ever.
Luckily, its spiritual ancestor, the superb SNES game Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, is now available on the Virtual Console. There are also hundreds of collectibles in several categories (Recipes, Catch Cards, Maps), but the unappealing gameplay gives scant motivation for extra scrounging after the main story is over. The fun factor takes a dive, though, as too many areas feature lengthy backtracking and counterintuitive or arbitrary puzzle solutions. Super Paper Mario is cute at first, but too many sloppy design elements end up making it hard to love. The game often presents puzzles without the slightest hint of what to do with themor it uses the environment inconsistently; for example, boxes that normally turn only red or blue suddenly also turn orange and blackbut only in one specific part of the game, and with no warning.
The game has some good ideas: the various characters and helpers ("Pixls") have diverse abilities, and many situations require the player to make intelligent choices about which character/helper combination to use. Super Paper Mario, the latest in a series that began with Paper Mario on the N64, initially impresses with bright graphics and charming visual effects, but is dragged down by its gameplay. ~ The dialogue is packed with winking references and sly send-ups of other Nintendo games that should delight long-time fans.
Unfortunately, the story proper is completely predictable, if unusually dark for a Mario game. .
Super Paper Mario is an awesome game. I love it and I'm only 8. And you have all these pixels that are awesome. You get to go into 3D where all sorts of hidden things are. You get to play as all the good chacaters: Bowser, Luigi, Peach, and of course Mario.
I'm a super-fast reader, so the amount of it didn't faze me. The graphics are colorful and inventive, but no more so than you'd see in a regular Gamecube title. Maybe after I'm done with the game, I'll draw some Mr. but sadly, after a while it became the only real source of entertainment that I got out of the game. And the dialogue is so funny sometimes. The elevator music soundtrack and dragging gameplay is a good way to relax if you want to think about nothing important and just space out, though.
The one big thing that takes the cake for me in this game is: it's boring and tedious. that was cool. I can fully see how Super Paper Mario charms so many people, but for me personally, the bad outweighs the good. although I could have done without some of the more useless explanations and tidbits of information.
And you get to look at pretty scenery while you're at it, too. It seriously takes out of the replay value for me, which is unfortunate, since I paid $50 for it straight up, at the store. Along with Count Bleck, he (and Luigi, I guess, by default) is the coolest character. I wish it were otherwise, but there's no accounting for taste.
I like how the Wii remote is used sideways like a regular controller. So here's my humble review. L fan art.
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