Obviously, it falls to Mario and Company to return the vibrant hues (not to mention order) to the game’s floundering world. The central conceit of the game is that the Koopa clan and its troublemaking minions are stealing the color from the Toad-inhabited Prism Island. Color Splash earns high marks across the board. What makes it so good?Īt its best, the Paper Mario saga combines epic storytelling, humorous writing, action-packed combat, and innovative gameplay. Not only is it the best Paper Mario game in recent memory, it may well be the best Mario title of this console generation. That said, Paper Mario: Color Splash is pitch-perfect. Similarly, recent 3DS releases Sticker Star and the crossover Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam, while great in their own right, didn’t quite fulfill all the promise that many fans had hoped. The GameCube’s Thousand Year Door wasn’t quite as innovative as the original, while the Wii’s Super Paper Mario seemed almost too ambitious for its console home. The general consensus seems to be-while all the games are as polished as you’d expected from big-name, first-party Nintendo/Intelligent Systems co-productions-each subsequent Paper Mario release loses a little bit of its former luster. image: Nintendo of America How does it stack up to previous Paper Mario titles? The result is part RPG, part action game, and all fun. Then they crank both elements to 11 and throw in a novel combat system that is both turned-based and encourages some precision button-mashing. games are traditional side-scrollers and the Super Mario 3D series are big, modern three-dimensional platformers, the Paper Mario titles mix the straightforward “flat” character models of the former with the environmental puzzle-solving of the latter. What separates Paper Mario games from the other Mario series? With the exception of the much anticipated Legend of Zelda entry Breath of the Wild-which will release on both the Wii U and Nintendo’s upcoming NX-this does look to be the Nintendo’s last major release of the console cycle. Because apparently plumbing just wasn’t paying the bills. Who has the strength, smarts, and natural eye for color needed to bring this land back from the edge of an ashen apocalypse? None other than the thinnest hero in the Mushroom Kingdom himself, Paper Mario. The Big Paint Stars of Prisma Fountain have vanished-and with them the veritable life’s blood of the once vibrant Prism Island.
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