Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door: not a paper-thin review [VIDEO]

Nintendo published a 5-minute overview of the more modern version of Intelligent Systems’ game (for some reason only in Japanese…?), so you can get to know the RPG better; since the original was particularly good on the GameCube, it will certainly be a success on the Nintendo Switch.

According to the story, the dastardly X-Nautas hunt for the treasure behind the Millennium Door. With Princess Peach’s map and the help of some locals, Mario travels through a colorful paper world to find them first. To pull off this mission, Mario and his friends need to level up, master timing attacks and use badges to wow the crowd on the fight stage, and every skill is worth using. For example, folding an airplane to get through larger gaps, and if we turn to the side, narrow openings will not be an obstacle in front of us.

Surprises abound in this deep and engaging story, where everyone has something to say, and it’s often not what we first think of. Mario meets all kinds of interesting people along the way, such as the cheerful and studious Goombella and the shy but determined Koops. Some of these characters will need our help with their own missions or may even join us. Others (like Peach and Bowser) have their own stories that you can play through between Mario’s chapters.

Twenty years after the original Nintendo GameCube release, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the second part of the franchise (the first was released on N64, the third, Super Paper Mario Wii), is now coming to Nintendo Switch. The Nintendo Switch remaster, for example, has revamped graphics and a host of other changes that make the game easier to enjoy than ever before. So it is easier to immerse yourself in it, which can have a good effect on the mood.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is a Nintendo Switch exclusive (unsurprisingly) and will be released on May 23rd for the big N’s soon-to-be-succeeded, yet-to-be-announced console.

Source: Gematsu