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This game is fun to play

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: May 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Paper Mario is a game that's fun to play because that's what
Nintendo is going for. Kids will love it as much as I do (and I'm no
kid). It's inventive, humorous, and never boring. Great Game

So much fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is so much fun! My kids have been having a blast playing this for the past couple of weeks. It's tough for them, but not so hard they get frustrated. It's a good balance. Even I am enjoying playing! We've always been Mario fans, and weren't disappointed by this one!

This 47 yr old father loves this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My 7 yr old and I play this a lot together. It's a difficult game, but not too hard. It's really engrossing. Totally our favorite game on the Wii.

People complain about the story being slow, and I tend to agree. However, it's not too bad, and there are so many other things which are fun about the game.

Not for me

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I thought this would be like old school Mario. It's cute but I just don't get it. The pace is very slow, kind of boring. Going through lots of doors. Not for me, I guess I have a short attention span!

So do you play it or just read?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 25
Date: June 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is horrible! I am so glad I rented this game opposed to buying it outright but it isn't even worth the $7 rental fee and after 30 mins, well that's 30mins of my life I'll never see again.

I gave up. There is NOTHING but scrolling through lame story. There's no game here, if there is, you have to endure more than 30 mins of bad music and lame dialog bubbles or worthless chatter. You get to walk a few feet then MORE talk and dialog bubbles of worthlessess.

If I could give less than 1 star I would.

Don't Buy it - minus 5 stars

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 25
Date: October 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

After turning the game on you have to push the A key a couple of 100 times to get through some story background - I don't care I want to play the game. After going back and forward and up and down a few elevators and into some rooms where people wanted money - of which I had none and didn't know how to get - despite the story I gave up and played a different game.
I will not buy another Mario game.

Dont buy this game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: November 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

i played the first two paper marios and i loved them. I beat the second one 3 times. So when the third paper mario came out i thought it would be the same as the other two except with a different story. I was wrong. The thing i loved about the first two was that there was a battle screen and part of the game was about getting mario better in battle. In the third one there is no battle screen and it is like super mario. I would have been okay with the game if there was a battle screen but there wasnt. So if youre looking for something like the 1st or 2nd paper mario DONT BUY THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Less talk, more action

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 28
Date: April 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm blown away with how much reading I have to do in this game and how little game play there is. The characters have these voice bubbles over them and there's literally 60 minutes of dialogue that you have to page through before you get to any action. With the old Mario Brothers, you could just turn the machine on and go. With this version, it's just going through blah blah blah blah blah blah.

3.5; Solid if unspectacular Mario entry

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: April 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

A lot of people see the Mario franchise, the most well-known and successful franchise in Nintendo's catalogue, as a kind of standard of excellence. You rarely, if ever, have a completely bad Mario game (I am of course not counting decent Luigi's Mansion, horrid Mario is Missing or his sports excursions like Baseball and Soccer. Aside from the main canon which includes Mario World, Mario 64, Mario Sunshine and Mario Galaxy, the RPG/Paper series has always been quite successful as well. Now the third installment in the Paper series is back and while I still love its premise, this is just not as great as Thousand Year Door was.

Story: The book Dark Prognosticus has foretold the destruction of the worlds brought on by Count Bleck when he brings about the mystical Chaos Heart. However, a group of good decide to counteract it and make the Light Prognosticus which foretells of a coming hero, which is of course Mario. With the help of Princess Peach, Luigi and even Bowser, Mario has to once again rid the world of evil (although surprisingly not the Princess for a change).

Graphics: The graphics reminded me of Thousand Year Door but that's not a bad thing, since that game had impressive visuals, especially its special effects and lighting. Super Paper Mario is basically cut from the same mold with bright, vibrant graphics. However this is the 2D world since the 3D side just looks plain and ugly. But still, it's a game where you can show off your TV since the image looks so clear.

Sound/Music: Kind of unremarkable to be honest. I was so caught up in the gameplay that I completely tuned out the rather drab music. Some might disagree and say they're catchy but since the Mario series has had catchy themes like Starman to the Underworld, it's disappointing there really isn't anything like it here.

Gameplay: Thousand Year Door's gimmick was that Mario gained paper-like abilities such as rolling and squeezing through cracks. This game is based on the idea that Mario can turn the 2D world into 3D. A common example is a wall that's too high to jump over in 2D. Stuck? No. Just go to 3D and that wall is right in the middle of a wide path and you can just walk around. What's disappointing is that it wasn't implemented that much with puzzles relegated simply to "flipping" the world. Not to mention it's kind of an easy game with barely any difficulty. But one thing that's great is the controls with Mario & Co. being more responsive than ever, unlike clunky butterfingers New Super Mario Bros.

Instead of having teammates battling in RPG style turn-based battles, we're back to old-school platforming with Mario jumping on enemies. You can still use items like bombs, flames and whatnot. Defeating one nets you EXP where you can level up though this wasn't as implemented all that well. You almost forget about until the screen says you leveled up and you go "oh...okay then." Also your characters are interchangeable so if you hit a snag, you can change to say Princess Peach who can glide with her umbrella or Bowser with his fire breath. Even though they're more established characters, I kind of preferred Vivian, Goombella and Ms. Mowz from Thousand Year Door better since they felt like more fleshed out characters.

So that's gotta be it right? Nope. Along the way, Mario can get so-called "Pixls", flying butterflies that can perform certain actions. Since you're holding the Wii-remote sideways a la NES controller, you have to go in the menu and change them out. Some range from platform-making to bombs to grabbing enemies/items from afar and many others. All of this gameplay variety and it's surprising at how...dull it feels. Of course it's Mario so you're going to play but it just feels kind of bland at times without those long playtimes previous games had whereas this game feels like it's best to play in short bursts.

Is it a bad Mario game? Well no since there's still Mario is Missing and that time travel one. It just feels like you've played better Mario games before.

Great game, go and buy it.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: May 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It's a fun mario game and definitely worth getting. I'm about a third of the way through and have enjoyed the game very much.

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