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TopicLeonhart Ranks 124 User Nominated Games
LeonhartFour
02/03/18 12:34:19 AM
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86. Super Paper Mario (pyresword)
ZuC1r71

Super Paper Mario gets a bad rap, but I don't feel like it's warranted. It gets blamed for ruining the series for some reason, but that was Sticker Star's doing. Sure, it's not as good as the first two games, but there's no shame in that. They changed the gameplay into more of a platformer instead of a pure RPG, but I didn't mind that. I missed having a bunch of unique party members, but being able to swap between Mario, Luigi, Bowser, and Peach was lots of fun, too. The Pixls were also fairly cool, although I wasn't too big on the new villains. However, while Super Paper Mario may have been deficient compared to the other two in gameplay, it's right up there with them in the quality of the writing. It's still top notch. Bowser remains a top tier Nintendo character, and then there's also the "introduction" of Mr. L, who was excellent. The worlds are colorful and charming, too. I think the Sammer Kingdom might be my favorite one. The series of battles was very cool, as well as the way that chapter ended.

Super Paper Mario is a fun game to mess around with, too, especially since it's so easy. You don't really need to formulate any strategies to beat it. You can just play however you want and roll through the game. You can switch around between the characters on the fly, so you can compensate for the fact that Bowser can't jump high by jumping high with Luigi's super jump ability and switching to Bowser in midair because he does a crapton of damage if he lands on an enemy. I cheesed the last boss that way, actually. It was ridiculously easy to pull off since the final form is so big that Bowser can just bounce off of his head repeatedly for massive damage.

Just talking about the good ol' days of Paper Mario is making me sad and angry about what Sticker Star did to this series. I haven't even touched anything vaguely Mario RPG-esque since then. How were Paper Jam and Color Splash anyway? I guess it doesn't really matter how Color Splash was unless they port it to the Switch since I don't have a Wii U, but I was just curious.

Bonus Question: What is your favorite Paper Mario?

That's it for tonight.
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