Paper Mario And The Thousand Year Door

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door for the Switch, is a remake of the original game for the GameCube; and is one of the most requested remake in the Mario canon because it is so revered. It focuses on Mario, Princess Peach and company out to save the day from the x-nauts and their plans to take over the world. 

The storytelling in the game is pretty interesting. There is a Waffleland story of Luigi where he “allegedly” goes to save a princess and even if it may be a made up tall tale of Luigi since he’s Daisy’s love interest, its actually pretty promising on paper to the point it could even work as a potential spin off. Even back then, the storytelling of Mario, when Nintendo really puts their mind to it with telling tales of characters, it can be some of the best writing you can find in any video game and by far one of the best fairytale like story along with Rosalina’s in Super Mario Galaxy. 

It is a turned based game like the Mario and Luigi JRPG series where timing is key to deliver attacks to enemies. You can practice combat moves outside of the game too with the combat master. The combat utilizes a theatrical format where the more people watching you in combat, the more likely you are to get help from the audience member, be it filling the special meter gauge up or items for support. 

The theater can also have its own uses in combat with environmental damage to you or the enemies. You can take part in side quests to help people out and even power up your partners the more star shards and fame you gather throughout the game. You can acquire new moves as time goes by. To level up you can select either health or points to make more moves. Each partner you have has their own unique abilities to help you in combat or world exploration. You can also even get a character going by Zess T to cook you food from the items you find throughout the game. 

The characters in the Paper Mario are generally ok. Gloombella is by far one of the best Mario characters in the series  right up there with Rosalina and Dimento. You can ask her for help, in case you need guidance on what to do next. Exploring the varied worlds provided plenty of excitement. The graphics and artstyle are as great as ever. For the music, you can choose between classic or remastered and both are incredible and one of the best in any Mario game. The user interface was easy to use. 

theater can also have its own uses in combat with environmental damage to you or the enemies. You can take part in side quests to help people out and even power up your partners the more star shards and fame you gather throughout the game. You can acquire new moves as time goes by. To level up you can select either health or points to make more moves. Each partner you have has their own unique abilities to help you in combat or world exploration. You can also even get a character going by Zess T to cook you food from the items you find throughout the game. 

The characters in the Paper Mario are generally ok. Gloombella is by far one of the best Mario characters in the series  right up there with Rosalina and Dimento. You can ask her for help, in case you need guidance on what to do next. Exploring the varied worlds provided plenty of excitement. The graphics and artstyle are as great as ever. For the music, you can choose between classic or remastered and both are incredible and one of the best in any Mario game. The user interface was easy to use. 

Like in other Mario RPG games, you can buy badges that gives you special bonuses to utilize during combat. At certain moments in the game, Mario can take in other paper forms like a paper plane as part of exploration for the world. It took me some time to get used to flying with the paper plane through a lot of trial and error.

I only really have a few complaints. The lack of 60 frames per second is really weird. The localization by treehouse is incredibly awful, and Nintendo’s long history of bad localizations really comes to forefront here. I noticed it early on with Trace Memory’s original game which by the time the remake came out, the localization there was a huge step up but here, everything about it is just very inaccurate to the original Japanese script. 

The amount of censorship for words too its beyond ridiculous to the point Treehouse and 5-4, the localization groups Nintendo goes for really just hinder them like the legal team they have over there so it’s really that bad. 

Overall, this is by far one of the best Mario games I've played. 

It gets 5 out of 5 stars. 

Nintendo has been doing really well lately bringing back their older IPS and with Benio the Smiling Man most recently announced and the return of the Famicom Detective Club, things are really looking up for Nintendo after years of so much fan pressure on them with bringing old IPS back.