The 'Paper' part of the name is down to the graphical approach, which involves cutout character models, page-turn-style screen wipes and fades and all sorts of other paper-related ideas borne out in a 3D engine that pretends to be 2D. Paper Mario 2 is a fairly simple RPG with a turn-based battle system. To begin with though, let's recap what we're dealing with. And, rather more gratifyingly, the intricacies the battle system - so often the make-or-break factor in many people's RPG love lives, and so often close to infallible in these Nintendo titles. But, having dealt with the important issues - how the save system works, which Japanese characters can be arranged to resemble English words on the naming screen - we managed to struggle through the first few hours and get something of a handle on the plot. Picking up a Japanese RPG is always a bit of a challenge when your knowledge of the language begins and ends with Yes and No, so we certainly wouldn't recommend any eager beavers in the audience to jump the gun and order it now. Having spent a few hours with the Japanese version - already a chart-topper in the Far East - we've few doubts that it deserves the publicity. And with Paper Mario 2: The Thousand Year Door, favoured first-party Intelligent Systems is arguably working on the first "highly anticipated" title of the bunch. Super Mario RPG, the original Square/Nintendo crossover, laid the foundations - but it was latter day titles like Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi that developed the concept into something indispensable.
#PAPER MARIO THE THOUSAND YEAR DOOR ROM NICOBLOG SERIES#
may have a handle on the serious RPG, but - ignoring green tights and Master Swords - over the past few years Nintendo's quiet little series of quirky Mario-led role-players has done more to excite the minds of its fans than anything on the same format.
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