From GamesReviews.com:
"We have seen various changes to the Paper Mario franchise over the past decade. Having started with turn based battles for the first few installments, then switching over to more dynamic combat in Super Paper Mario Wii, I’m happy to say that with Paper Mario: Sticker Star for the 3DS, the series has gone back to its roots and makes for an immensely adorable and memorable adventure."
It’s always hard to watch a beloved series fall on hard times. It’s even harder still when the problems holding it back are glaring and should have been as easy to spot as Godzilla stomping through a nitroglycerin plant. Alas, for one reason or another, crippling problems either manage to go unnoticed or disguise themselves as a game’s main selling point. Most often it’s a new feature that sounds exciting on paper, but winds up a disappointment in practice. Case and point, the slow yet drastic decline of the Paper Mario series.
Sticker star was horrible I hated it but I liked color splash and feel it didn't get the attention it deserved. Color splash and super paper Mario might not be like the old rpg paper Mario's but that doesn't mean they can't be fun, you just have to have an open mind
I love the paper Mario series they are not anywhere near bad games sticker star was awesome. Just because you don’t Level up like a traditional rpg doesnt mean the game sucked. get over it.
Colour splash was a fantastic entry ... Shame bugger all got to play it, one of the last great on WiiU
With plummeting sales and a fanbase becoming more dissatisfied, is it time for Paper Mario -- a once lauded RPG spin-off -- to be put to bed?
Well the last Paper Mario game has no chance of selling pass 1 million like the rest of the series has, so you could say it's dying. This wouldn't be the case if Nintendo would just listen to the fans and try giving them a sequel that built off of the original and TTYD mechanics
At this point I'd settle for a new one that used the same mechanics as Super Paper Mario.
At least that one was still challenging at times and had a wonderful story, something I cannot comfortably say about the last couple of entries.
I even liked Mr. L, corny as that concept was.XD
I do too. It'd be great if we had another 2D Mario game that had a different aesthetic to NSMB. SPM was the greatest departure for the Paper Mario series, but idk if Intelligent Systems would revisit such an awesome idea
Maybe the sales reception to this will put them back in the right mind, (though I enjoyed this one more than sticker star)
@rja- I hope so because I don't really want much in regards to a paper Mario RPG simply want Thousand Year Door gameplay and an interesting story I never asked for any platforming and stuff or changing your perspective or anything like that nothing's wrong with that but it's the fact that the game play change so significantly I personally just want regular Paper Mario rpg gameplay like we got from the first two games.
This is one of the areas where I wish Nintendo would just stay a little bit more conservative because sometimes they change things and just fly off the handle and basically try to redo a wheel that no one was asking them to do.
Nintendo seems to have a hard time listening to their fanbase. It will ultimately hurt them Into to the future.
As a side note, I'm feeling like the switch is a continuation of where the Wiiu wanted to go and I don't like Nintendo doing away with the 3ds altogether.
Lol yes, truth.
Paper Mario Thousand Year Door is the last great Paper Mario game.
I was worried about color splash the second I heard they are Outsourcing it to some no-name team.
The Wii U Paper Mario Color Splash game is actually pretty good but the system is dead so unfortunately the game crashed with it. Truthfully Paper Mario and the Mario and Luigi Saga series have done almost all they can do. Now that the Wii U and 3DS are coming to an end and the switches the main focus of Nintendo, I think that they should create a new Mario role playing game that is not Paper or Buddy Team like they did before.
Truthfully I really wish that they would create a Zelda role-playing game. I would really like something that's turn-based with a lot of characters and story not just action and hit points. Or even better if they created something in the Smash Brothers universe in role-playing forum and had a crossover with characters kind of like the Kingdom Hearts-ish level of love. I think party games sports games and such with Mario have never really tried to venture out until the DLC with Mario Kart 8. I would really like to see the Nintendo properties as an entire universe come together in more interesting games of the future. Just a thought
How are Switch sales going to suddenly change the direction that Intelligent Systems has taken with the Paper Mario franchise
Luck. Nintendo will want to make the Paper Mario to sell bigger numbers to a larger install base.
@moon? I don't understand? They wanted to sell garbage on the Wii U? That doesn't explain the changes they made when it released for the Wii.
I'm sorry but I don't believe any publisher wants to make crappy games I believe they always go in there with the best intention to make the best that they possibly can which actually means if they fully believed they were making a great game with color splash Nothing is Stopping them from believing they're making a great game on the switch that would probably still end up being garbage
@ Moon
That doesn't make sense. 3DS sold well but they still decided to make Sticker Star.
They also didn't make Color Splash based on Wii U's install base
.. not necessarily the wii sold amazingly the Paper Mario on that system was garbage
@phoe- I don't think it's a bad game simply that compared to the previous Paper Mario RPG I just don't like how casual they made it.
Just give me the game play of A Thousand Year Door and I'm good.
@wonder- yes that's my opinion, it's not a fact....
My point is simply illustrating that lots of people have not really cared for the Paper Mario series recently regardless of platform success and I agree with them, Thousand Year Door in my personal opinion is the last great Paper Mario RPG.
I mean.... these are all just opinions.
I'm only trying to say that i'm sure Nintendo has seen reviews of the past two games and fans' outrage. They stubbornly stuck to a 3DS games mirror Wii U releases strategy. Hence 3D World and Color Splash being similar to 3D Land and Sticker Star.
Until they go back to the good version of paper mario, it's already dead to me.
Silly companies taking RPG elements out of a rpg game (mass effect rings a bell )? Miyamoto needs to leave PM alone.. what made PM great was its play mechanics and quirky story. Mario and Luigi has become the new paper mario. Maybe they should collaborate with Square Enix and make another super mario rpg.
NL:
If you like perusing unsubstantiated E3 rumours in some dark corners of the internet, you'll have seen Paper Mario for Wii U mentioned an awful lot. Anyone fabricating a Digital Event script typically slots it in about mid-way through, also known as the Yoshi's Woolly World spot from now on - middle of the show, a big game to catch attention while not being quite thrilling enough to work as a grand finale.
