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Paper Mario: Sticker Star |OT| Delicious Flat Characters
- Thread starter Chet Rippo
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Masked Man
I said wow
As would I, although I understand: AC will sell like crazy here in Japan, so they're going to get it out as soon as they can. :/
I intend to buy both, for the record. I just really want Paper Mario!
Yessss. I want this. Is it similar to the other games or drastically different?
That's what I like to hear. Less than a week left!
chickdigger802
Banned
ign review should be up tonight (or tomorrow noon, don't know how time works).
Damo Yoshi
Member
john tv out of his natural habitat.
Hoping for a LOT of Paper Mario chat 8-4 guys (and Ms. Hiroko)! I'd particularly be interested in your opinion of the writing as localisers yourself! I've always found that PM is Treehouse's finest work and I'm conerned that the lack of partners might detract from it all.
rip YOSH of Glitzville.
also i am thankful that flurrie is not a parter in this game or dat chet rippo art work. (But I'll second the general sentiments and say that this is some of your finest art!)
uh....there's been a lot of people concerned about it. You are far from the only one.
nintendoman58
Member
I am really dissapointed with the direction they are taking with the Paper Mario franchise.
Don't get me wrong, the sticker idea seems fun and all, but like a lot of people, I'm not a fan of Nintendo getting rid of the partners and playing the whole "Bowser capturing Princess Peach card." I know that happened in the first one, but after playing TTYD, I really didn't want to go backwards. What they did with TTYD was perfect. Not making Bowser the main central villain and the little entertaining stories that happened in between getting Crystal Stars is what made the game.
Super Paper Mario may have been tedious, but at least it had the nice touching story aspect to it.
This...
This just feels like the kind of story I'd expect from a big 3D console Mario game. It just feels out of place compared to what we got before in Mario RPGs.
So as much as I hate to do this...I think I'll be skipping out on this one for now. Maybe I'll pick it up another time when the price goes down a bit.
Don't get me wrong, the sticker idea seems fun and all, but like a lot of people, I'm not a fan of Nintendo getting rid of the partners and playing the whole "Bowser capturing Princess Peach card." I know that happened in the first one, but after playing TTYD, I really didn't want to go backwards. What they did with TTYD was perfect. Not making Bowser the main central villain and the little entertaining stories that happened in between getting Crystal Stars is what made the game.
Super Paper Mario may have been tedious, but at least it had the nice touching story aspect to it.
This...
This just feels like the kind of story I'd expect from a big 3D console Mario game. It just feels out of place compared to what we got before in Mario RPGs.
So as much as I hate to do this...I think I'll be skipping out on this one for now. Maybe I'll pick it up another time when the price goes down a bit.
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
That makes your OTs so special, is awesome watching them everytime. I love the paper peach <3
I'm so glad you know the whole story to the game.
Sorry if this seems harsh, but I'm just sick of people taking previews and screenshots and videos and claiming that the story/gameplay/graphics/whatever are awful. It's fine that you don't like what you see and you don't want to buy the game, but it's wrong to say that the story is bad when you haven't even seen 95% of it.
Incitemaybe
Member
Does this have multiple save slots?
Chet Rippo
Member
Well, my username isn't Chet Rippo for nothing.
Father_Brain
Banned
Rich from IGN implied that it would get a lower than anticipated score, and Jonathan Holmes from Destructoid is comparing it to the original Zelda, which I'm worried means "lots of random shit hidden in unmarked places with no direction as to where to go next." Hopefully I'm not driven to cancel my preorder tomorrow.
Well Nintendo hasn't provided anything to contradict his impression in all the pre-release media.
We've seen the first 30 minutes, clips from throughout the game, and screenshots from later levels, with nary a new villain or troupe of baddies in sight. I'm with nintendoman here; it's easy to foresee that the plot/characters might be pretty dull in comparison to TTYD, because the lack of partners and new antagonists means the story loses out on some guaranteed methods of staying fresh.
Now you can claim that we're jumping the gun, but if you're not allowed to come to some conclusions about the general feel of a game from its own marketing, then something's wrong on Nintendo's end, not ours.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Well, Holmes's description of who would enjoy the game pretty much fits him like a glove, so I expect he quite liked it.
How much did I like Zelda and RE? FUCKING TONS! This is nothing but great news IMO.
grimshawish
Banned
...that seems...good?
Although obviously saying 'not very Paper Mario' - so fans may not love it I suppose.
Father_Brain
Banned
Ufouria is the only exploration-based NES game I actually enjoyed, so I hope the comparison to games of that era is exaggerated.
It's Mario Kart: Double Dash 7.9 all over again.
chickdigger802
Banned
8.8 bitches.
The Wheel of Fortune
Member
Can't wait to see how it turns out, it's Paper Mario, but I'm so fucking worried about it...
TTYD is one of my favorite games of all time, and I had high expectations for this game before seeing the different direction IS took. I just want it to be memorable; the graphics and the music are pretty good, and it looks like the mechanics actually work and make a fun game, but the game looks really generic from what we've seen so far. Fuck the mariachi Shy Guys, I want something that's really memorable, like Huff'N'Puff, General Guy, Doopliss, Rawk Hawk, Dimentio and Mimi. And here I thought SPM couldn't be beaten in that aspect. The only 2 bosses I know of are a giant Pokey and the King Goomba. Lowering my hopes again...
At least we know that each of the bosses has it's own theme, like in past games. Hopefully I'm really, really wrong, because even so I'm still looking forward to playing this next Monday.
TTYD is one of my favorite games of all time, and I had high expectations for this game before seeing the different direction IS took. I just want it to be memorable; the graphics and the music are pretty good, and it looks like the mechanics actually work and make a fun game, but the game looks really generic from what we've seen so far. Fuck the mariachi Shy Guys, I want something that's really memorable, like Huff'N'Puff, General Guy, Doopliss, Rawk Hawk, Dimentio and Mimi. And here I thought SPM couldn't be beaten in that aspect. The only 2 bosses I know of are a giant Pokey and the King Goomba. Lowering my hopes again...
At least we know that each of the bosses has it's own theme, like in past games. Hopefully I'm really, really wrong, because even so I'm still looking forward to playing this next Monday.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Oddly enough, I was never anticipating this game to be Paper Mario 3 / the sequel to TTYD many want. Mind you I love TTYD as much as anyone, it's amazing.
But considering this is a portable game, I figured it would be built around some concessions to portable play, and maybe scaled back a bit, like an alternate version of Paper Mario 1.
The way they've got it set up with a world map and "stages" but not in the way Super Paper Mario was conceived actually intrigues me. If it works like I suspect it does, I think this could end up being good for the portable format. We'll see.
Edit:
Combined with the remarks this is for the "SNES" gamer, are we getting to the point that all it takes for a game to be retro is that it poses any sort of challenge for the player to have to figure something out at all? Ha ha. "I got stuck in this game. It's too retro for it's own good."
But considering this is a portable game, I figured it would be built around some concessions to portable play, and maybe scaled back a bit, like an alternate version of Paper Mario 1.
The way they've got it set up with a world map and "stages" but not in the way Super Paper Mario was conceived actually intrigues me. If it works like I suspect it does, I think this could end up being good for the portable format. We'll see.
Edit:
Combined with the remarks this is for the "SNES" gamer, are we getting to the point that all it takes for a game to be retro is that it poses any sort of challenge for the player to have to figure something out at all? Ha ha. "I got stuck in this game. It's too retro for it's own good."
The Wheel of Fortune
Member
chickdigger802
Banned
A hard paper mario game?
I'm scared.
Yet interested.
Give me the paper mario equivalent of the super ultimate secret level of mario 3d land.
I'm scared.
Yet interested.
Give me the paper mario equivalent of the super ultimate secret level of mario 3d land.
nckillthegrimace
Member
Given the references to the original Zelda and Resident Evil, reviewers are probably having trouble figuring out what to do next.
Chet Rippo
Member
I like what I'm hearing so far.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Well according to some people, Zelda 1 is the pinnacle of all game design, so we'll see if this can measure up to such lofty standards
chickdigger802
Banned
wonder if ign's reviewer finished the game.
This seems bizarre. If the game has a compartmentalized level structure (complete with overworld map), how do you get someone in a position where they don't know where to go next? Unless individual levels are extremely nonlinear, I find it hard to believe.
EDIT: well, I just read that gamefaqs post which lays it out in pretty certain terms.