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[Blues1990]

lol that Toad death was brutal.

Good riddance. One less generic Toad to deal with.

 

[2tacos]

Nintendo sure knows how to make mediocre graphics look incredible.

 

[Kingpin Rogers]

Did the 3ds paper mario have much dialogue? This seems pretty alright to me.

 

[salamander150]

Lol what did I just watch

 

[MrBadger]

Nothing but Toads. My favourite

 

[balladofwindfishes]

This is what I've always wanted Paper Mario to look like. The visuals are amazing.

 

[kuroneko0509]

It was Eric's voice. It could have been improvised.

loooooool

 

[BrokenFiction]

This game was not on my radar at all, but now I have to have it.

 

[weevles]

It looks super sweet so far. Please no sticker star BS..../prays

 

[jblank83]

The jump attack is brutal. CRUSH HIM.

Nintendo sure knows how to make mediocre graphics look incredible.

If mediocre graphics look incredible, are they still mediocre?

 

[udivision]

IntSys isn't making this?

 

[PhoenixDawn]

Visuals are so good but I can't even see myself getting it with all of this Sticker Star garbage (generic toad characters, card battle system). Which is a damn shame.

 

[Joqu]

Yup, still looks great. Still only generic toad dialogue so far. Please have other stuff

 

[chalkitdown1]

Anyone got that image handy, the one that shows the difference in variety in characters for this series since TTYD?

 

[johnsavage]

The battling is so charming!

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

Lol what, the narration wasn't from the game.

I'm almost saddened it's not now i think about it

 

[weevles]

cards and c-c-c-combos...I might be in on this.

 

[Glass Rebel]

no leveling whatsoever

instaskip

 

[TheSlySoul]

Yep that is Sticker Star 2.0.

 

[PKrockin]

Anyone got that image handy, the one that shows the difference in variety in characters for this series since TTYD?

I mean you can just Google Image Search "Thousand Year Door characters"

 

[Bananastand]

Is there exp in this? I missed the first battle.

 

[Ansatz]

They need to show something more interesting than just "fill in the colorless spots" which is okay in and of itself.

Nintendo sure knows how to make mediocre graphics look incredible.

 

[OricWindstar]

Visuals are so damn good, but I just want an evolution of TTYD. Not feeling this combat at all.

 

[Mory Dunz]

No exp it looks like?


Also, first time Free Camera in Paper Mario

 

[Murugo]

My biggest gripe about Sticker Star is the need to collect stickers just to attack. A default attack for jump / hammer would have improved the game greatly, that way you'd only need to collect special stickers for attacks.

Color Splash really does master the paper aesthetic, though.

 

[bobbychalkers]

Speaking as someone with no history with the Paper Mario games, what's the reason for the backlash for this? Not trying to sound incendiary either, just curious.

 

[Chezzymann]

So the cards are basically the sticker system? I hope there's no sticker puzzles in this. Hated that about sticker star.

 

[Garraboa]

Someone needs to tell France to tell Nintendo that this is going to crash and burn

 

[balladofwindfishes]

Is there exp in this? I missed the first battle.

I don't know, when he won the battle some bar up by the paint icon filled up slightly. Maybe that's an EXP bar?

 

[Cindro]

I really hate that everything seems to be tied to disposables again, but everything else looks righteous. I'll probably give it the benefit of the doubt based on how wonderful the world looks.

 

[ryan-ts]

Game looks gorgeous.. battle system looks not so good.

 

[Aaronrules380]

Yep that is Sticker Star 2.0.

Sticker Star is the second best selling game in the franchise, second only to Super Paper Mario (which, lets be real, was a wii game) so nobody should be that surprised

 

[rhandino]

Oh boy, I can already see the flames since this is Sticker Star 2.0

I love Sticker Star so I am OK with that but I empathize with people that wanted a Mario RPG with this visuals.

And it seems that battle gives you money and paint.

 

[chalkitdown1]

Toads. If there's one thing this series needs, it's more character-less fucking toads that all look exactly the same.

 

[DecoReturns]

Put Paper Mario in Smash

 

[dampflokfreund]

So far, it looks exactly like I expected. Generic enviroments, only Toad characters. Sticker Star 2. Sad.

I mean, the beach looks almost exactly like the one in Paper Jam.

Graphics are amazing though.

 

[OricWindstar]

Speaking as someone with no history with the Paper Mario games, what's the reason for the backlash for this? Not trying to sound incendiary either, just curious.

They switched up the battle system quite a bit and moved away from the strong plot/dialogue focus of the first three games.

 

[Mory Dunz]

"The artists went through a lot of trial and error" for the paper look.



Were they too busy to remember the NPCs ???

 

[Dark Cloud]

So there is experience? When he won a bar filled up by the the three colors.

 

[ffdgh]

no leveling whatsoever

instaskip

Yep that is Sticker Star 2.0.

Annnnnnnnd any interest had is gone...

 

[Dad]

Everything looks incredible except for the combat

 

[thestopsign]

Honestly this doesn't look like the worst thing ever. Still wish there were more straight RPG mechanics.

 

[Social]

Oh boy, I can already see the flames since this is Sticker Star 2.0

I love Sticker Star so I am OK with that but I empathize with people that wanted a Mario RPG with this visuals.

High five, i loved Sticker Star too

 

[udivision]

Speaking as someone with no history with the Paper Mario games, what's the reason for the backlash for this? Not trying to sound incendiary either, just curious.

The main problem are a reduction of RPG elements, original characters, and overall story compared to the first two games. That's the major issue some people have.

Were they too busy to remember the NPCs ???

lol

 

[Zeeman]

Oh, there's a fan card. It really is Sticker Star 2

 

[Chezzymann]

Oh shit a fan card. Probably means card puzzles. Uuuugh fuck that not getting this

 

[PhoenixDawn]

Speaking as someone with no history with the Paper Mario games, what's the reason for the backlash for this? Not trying to sound incendiary either, just curious.

The first two/three games in the series had a nice turn based system in the more traditional sense where you had a hammer/jump attack along with partner special attacks that required unique timings/actions in order to preform. This game and Sticker Star completely scrapped that and made you gather cards/stickers in the over world to use every attack, even your basic ones. But perhaps the worse thing is the fact that the past games, especially Thousand Year Door (the second Paper Mario), had such wonderful partner characters and a wide variety of races/character types. Sticker Star (and this game apparently) decided that it was better to get rid of almost all of those unique races/character types and have almost every character be a stupid fucking generic toad. The writing is still OK, but it definitely has lost a ton of its charm. Plus you don't have partners anymore, which were also a cool part of the combat and interactions from the earlier games.

 

[Mory Dunz]

Remember that time when we jumped to conclusions and ended up being exactly right?

 

[OricWindstar]

Music also seems great.

 

[Aostia]

Looks so cute, I love it and the mechanics seem good and I think that it is a good fit for home console. Sorry guys but I can't judge it negatively just because it isn't like Ttyd