You Can’t Judge A Book…
I must say, the biggest complaint I’ve heard about Super Paper Mario is the amount of blabbing that goes on. At the same time, one of the highlights is the clever dialogue, so which do you want? I understand the need for ‘the next Mario platformer’, but folks, it’s called Super Mario Galaxy and it will be here this year. The Paper Mario series was never about action or platforming and it would have been pretty odd to use the Paper Mario visuals without the Paper Mario attitude. That being said, Nintendo did seem to advertise all the action elements of the game pretty heavily, like the 2D-3D switching and the 8-bit giant characters. It would be a tough sell to tell consumers how much dialogue and story there would be. I’d imagine Super Paper Mario was bought by LOTS of Wii owners that 1) had never played a Paper Mario game and 2) were desperate for something to play on the system. If you didn’t know what you were getting into, you might have been a bit disappointed, but if you were a fan of the series, you were probably happy to see more of the same.
I know I was. I didn’t find the amount of reading to be any kind of problem. It felt natural for the Paper Mario series, but it didn’t have as good of a story to write all this text about as Thousand Year Door did.
I didn’t put my signature on this one because it was more of a Photoshop effort than it was my usual vector art. And yes, the story in the pop-up book is using actual dialogue from the game.
(15 votes, average: 4.53 out of 5)
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