Paper Mario The Origami King Announced for Nintendo Switch - Launches July 17th

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Releases 7/17


A NEW PAPER-CRAFTED MARIO ADVENTURE UNFOLDS ON NINTENDO SWITCH
The kingdom has been ravaged by an origami menace! Join Mario and his new partner, Olivia, as they team up with unlikely allies like Bowser and the Toads to battle evil Folded Soldiers.

Try to free Princess Peach's castle from the clutches of King Olly in this comedy-filled adventure, only on the Nintendo Switch system.


NEW ABILITIES… AND NEW BATTLES!
Use the 1,000-Fold Arms ability to extend your arms to interact with the environment and solve puzzles. In battle, line up scattered enemies and plan your attack to maximize damage with the new, ring-based battle system that requires both puzzle-solving skills and a quick wit.




 
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This looks promising! I hope the battle system is decent - it sounds like it will be kind of like Radiant Historia or something where you manipulate enemy positions to line them up for attacks, but it just has a single paragraph on it and no vids.
 
Boom. Guess this would have been an E3 thing?

Possibly. Could also have been something that was going to be announced a month or two ago, but got delayed by Covid-19.

Either way, the game looks really freakin' good. More hyped for this than I am Ghost of Tsuhima, tbh. And I fucking love me some feudal japanese samurai. Wouldn't surprise me if they planned to shadow drop the announcement today because of that. Given the similar release windows and announcement of gameplay today for GoT.
 
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I hope that all they do today is drop twitter stuff like this in place of the direct that got postponed.

I would shed a tear.....

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Looks great! And love how this comes out of nowhere and releases in like 3 months. Wish all companies did that.

Just hoping for a decent battle system now as that'll make or break the game for me.
 
Looks charming. The last Paper Mario didn't really capture me but let's see if this one does.

Low-key hoping for the first "console" Mario & Luigi RPG to show up on the Switch.
 
The battle system and an original plot with new charachters will make or break this game.Visually it surely looks great .Out of nowhere announcement and the game comes out pretty soon too.
 
They also did a surprise release of Super Paper Mario long ago.

Anyone got some reaction videos to this trailer drop for me to loathe?
 
This video only shows a basic example, but it looks like the battle system could have a decent amount strategy behind it. *Fingers crossed*

At the very least, it shows it has an actual RPG battle system. It was starting to look like Paper Mario would turn into just another Mario 2D platformer.
 
Remember all those leaks/rumors:

- Mario 64 Remaster/Remake
- Mario Sunshine Remaster
- Mario Galaxy Remaster
- Mario 3D World Switch Port/Remaster
- NEW Paper Mario game

I'd say it's just a matter of time for the rest of that list now.
 
That's why it's always funny when people say Nintendo doesn't have anything else for the rest of the year. They develop games without giving notice and sit on a ton of stuff, and can just release on a whim.
 
Whoa, this came out of nowhere! I'm liking how it looks so far. Is it going to have the card based gameplay of color splash or go traditional?

EDIT: Battle system looks like neither of the above. You have to line up enemies and it takes place in a circle? Can enemies advance on their place in the circle and are there ways to attack them from different positions?
 
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