Super Paper Mario
by Nintendo
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Video Game Reviews of Super Paper Mario
Customer Review: Very Impressive
Summary: 4 Stars
I ordered this at the same time I ordered something else. This shipper shipped the game out right away, and I recieved it within 3 days. I was impressed. Now, the other thing I ordered...didnt come until a week after Christmas. But if you order from this person, I believe you will be pleasantly surprised. Customer Review: Huge let down
Summary: 2 Stars
I absolutely LOVED the first two paper mario games. The gamecube and n64 versions were fantastic, I could play them over and over again, and I do. But this wii version is atrocious. It pains me that it even holds the paper mario name. I've tried and tried to give the game a fair chance and to get into it, but I just cannot. I dislike the style of play. The whole point of paper mario was that he was 2d in a 3d world. I understand the "flipping" concept in this game but it's just well.. bad. Not enjoyable by any stretch. I feel like I'm playing super mario brothers and that's not the feeling I want to have when I'm playing a paper mario game. If you have not tried the first two paper mario games I'm sure you'd really enjoy this game, but coming from that background this game is a huge let down. Customer Review: WORDY jibber-jabber jibber-jabber blah blah blah
Summary: 4 Stars
Fantastic game. VERY FUN.. but it took 23 (!) minutes of clicking thru inane dialog just to get to the first 'chapter' of actual game play. If they would only have an option to skip past all the story/crap it'd be perfect. Customer Review: Cute but Disappointing
Summary: 3 Stars
Super Paper Mario, the latest in a series that began with Paper Mario on the N64, initially impresses with bright graphics and charming visual effects, but is dragged down by its gameplay.
The game has some good ideas: the various characters and helpers ("Pixls") have diverse abilities, and many situations require the player to make intelligent choices about which character/helper combination to use. This installment of the series does away with turn-based battles in favor of what is basically platforming gameplay with RPG elements (e.g., hit points and levels), and the integration is surprisingly smooth.
The fun factor takes a dive, though, as too many areas feature lengthy backtracking and counterintuitive or arbitrary puzzle solutions. The game often presents puzzles without the slightest hint of what to do with them--or it uses the environment inconsistently; for example, boxes that normally turn only red or blue suddenly also turn orange and black--but only in one specific part of the game, and with no warning. Super Paper Mario's gameplay is relatively easy, but its often opaque puzzles can quickly make it frustrating.
On a different note, the game's English translation sparkles, with distinct and often hilarious dialogue for each character--a good thing, since this must be one of the talkiest Mario titles ever. The dialogue is packed with winking references and sly send-ups of other Nintendo games that should delight long-time fans. Unfortunately, the story proper is completely predictable, if unusually dark for a Mario game. There are also hundreds of collectibles in several categories (Recipes, Catch Cards, Maps), but the unappealing gameplay gives scant motivation for extra scrounging after the main story is over.
Super Paper Mario is cute at first, but too many sloppy design elements end up making it hard to love. Luckily, its spiritual ancestor, the superb SNES game Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, is now available on the Virtual Console. It costs less and is a vastly more satisfying game.
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Customer Review: Best Game in the World
Summary: 5 Stars
Super Paper Mario is an awesome game. You get to play as all the good chacaters: Bowser, Luigi, Peach, and of course Mario. You get to go into 3D where all sorts of hidden things are. And you have all these pixels that are awesome. I love it and I'm only 8!