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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.

Extraordinarily Disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 43
Date: April 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was previously unaware of the "Paper Mario" franchise. However, I rushed out to buy this game, because I have been a big fan of every other Mario/Luigi game released for the various Nintendo platforms. I have never been so disappointed by a video game purchase in my life. I have basically given up after an hour and a half of play.

We are supposed to forgive poor graphics on the Wii, because it has innovative game play. Not only are the graphics for this games some of the most painful I have seen, but it does not take advantage of the Wii remote. The couple of actions you can perform with the remote are clearly an after thought, and the game would be better off without them.

My first hour and a half with this game was filled almost entirely by trying to rush through reading an extremely poorly written story. During that time, no interesting skills are learned nor are there any significant enemies.

Perhaps gamers who were aware of and enjoy the Paper Mario franchise will feel differently; however, I highly doubt that anybody who was a fan of prior Mario Bros. games will enjoy this one even slightly. I will be trading this game in ASAP.

Pros:
None that I can find.

Cons:
Painfully bad graphics.
Poorly written storyline.
Overly long-winded characters.
Overly simple game play.
No control suitable for the Wii.

Snooze-fest

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 21
Date: May 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Here we are with yet another Wii game (the other being Zelda) that I will not finish out of boredom. Another HUGELY anticipated, fairly well-reviewed game I'm aware, but just like the majority of the Nintendo fanboys, the critical reviewers typically suffer from the same problem: believing Nintendo can do no wrong. There is a reason Nintendo has to keep making the same games. They have to stick to the same tired formula for everything they produce because when they stray from it the maniacal fans raise hell. When Mario had a 'jet pack' in Super Mario Sunshine they screamed and cried that it didn't 'stick to tradition' and hence sales suffered. When the Wind Waker used a cell-shading and what I thought was beautiful animation style the child-boy fans cried their little eyes out and kicked their feet and again sales suffered. So Nintendo is stuck either sticking to 'tradition' and making the same game every time because they know it will sell and their developmentally disabled fans will like it (because change is bad, familiarity is good) or they can try to 'break the mold' and get an onslaught of attack from their fans and risk having a profit-loss product on shelves.
That being said here's where this game went wrong for me. In reality HAD this game ACTUALLY stuck to a 'tradition' and been just a 2d side-scroller it would have been great. The majority of the levels are fun. However the problem is the levels are constantly broken up by horrendous "RPG" elements. The fans like to call it RPG elements, because that way if you criticize the fact that their is far too much dialouge, or that you seem to spend the majority of the time backtracking looking for a key or the door it fits in, they can say "Don't you know ANYTHING about an RPG!? Jeez!" and not worry about having to find fault with their beloved game.
But really this game is a SNOOZEFEST. From the moment you start it up and are forced to sit through a 20-minute opening sequence before you even take your first short step to running around the unfortunately large 'town' between every world looking for another damn heart pillar. Everything about this game screams boredom. Even the dialog that you will be subjected to in EVERY and I mean EVERY level and in between levels and before boss battles is not entertaining. There is no gripping story line that you will care about and the humour maybe lost something in translation because it's not there either. But on an average 45-minute session of this game you will probably spend just over 20-minutes clicking rapidly through line after line of dialog.
It's a shame too, because had I been on the graphic team I would be furious. The visuals are fantastic. The 2d worlds look great and the clever animation is wonderful. But you get sucked out of the world that the designers laboured to create every 15 seconds when you back in another chat fest.
I think I've gotten to the 6th world before my playing finally just slowed to a halt. And I know I won't pick it up again. There is no desire to keep going, like a game should give you. Instead it's only the feeling that "I spent $50 on this I should play it" but that wears off.
I really hope Nintendo gets with it. Zelda also bored me to tears since its the SAME Zelda game I've played seven or eight times now. I thought with a product as revolutionary as the Wii that maybe they were finally going to go against the status quo and create new and fun games again. But so far they are just porting the same old titles over to a new system.

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.

HUGE LET DOWN, THEY CHANGED THE FORMAT AND IT RUINED THE GAME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 18
Date: September 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The Paper Mario series was one of the best series featuring 2 of the best games for Nintendo's previous systems.....Paper Mario for the N64 was a brilliant RPG game with enough colorful design for the kids, but yet enough of a decent story and interesting almost Zelda like moments for the adults. It was a turn based game, where the player would have to use strategy, etc to figure out ways to progress through the game. I enjoyed the first Paper Mario maybe more than any game I have in a long time, and therefore eagerly picked up the Paper Mario 1000 Yr Door for the Gamecube a few years later....

THe GameCube game was a bit less effective that the original, mostly because they added a bit TOO MUCH text to the story, but it still was a long (30+ hour game) and had enough to more than keep you interested, just didn't have the ghost levels, or charm of the first one because some of it had been done, but it was not far off, still one of GameCube's better titles and one of the few long games that I (an adult) took the time to beat. There's enough humour etc and enough strategy to make this one interesting, and I was eager for more (I had the game for a few years actualy before I got around to playing it because as an adult time is tough and devoting 30+ hours to a game can be hard, but when I had the time, I was more than happy with using it to play this game. It was more challenging than the first one, but also maybe a big too long. Still hardly a bad game, I'd still rank it a perfect 10/10 overall....and I was more than eager to buy the Super Paper Mario game which at the time I thought was going to be for the GameCube....

6 months pass and the Super Paper Mario game comes out for only the Wii.....I had already a desire to buy the Wii, but thought I can't wait to buy it now because I know there's at least a Paper Mario Game if not a Zelda game I'd be interested in.....so I finally buckled down and bought something I thought would be a can't miss title....Super Paper Mario. I like the fact that the first two games read like a story, and really the most compelling piece of hte first two games is the RPG style with the thousands of mini stories and battles, they were very well detailed....

SO I bought the Wii, with really Super Paper Mario being the clincher for me, and got the game, put it in, with reasonable excitement. I even told my wife (I'm a newleywed) about it and she remembered briefly me playing the last one....and I said I was really excited about this, especially after I already tested and enjoyed Wii Sports so much.....so we both put it in, and right off the bat, the graphics were a bit disappointing (they're worse than the GameCube and maybe even N64 version) and suddenly the game is now more like a standard old-school, dated Mario Game than the interesting RPG styled game series I fell in love with.

I felt very jipped. I still am upset. I've tried to play the game several times, but find it boring, and less inspired/entertaining than the two games preceeding it. It's one of the worst video games I've bought ever, and is much more in tune for a 10 year old, rather than an adult (whereas the previous titles work well for adults, and I'd really recommend their strange charms). This title is a complete waste.

I almost feel like Nintendo should give everyone who bought this game thinking it was going to be similar in style at least to it's two predecessors should be able to get their money back. It's billed as a Paper Mario Title, but is much more like a very weak Super Mario 3 styled game. THis type of game would have been ok had it been called Super Mario 4 (I think World was 4) or Super Mario Wii, or really had it come out 15 years ago when I was a kid....but billing this as Super Paper Mario, then delivering a game that in gameplay is nothing like the original is a complete waste.

If you're a 10 yr old kid or an adult buying a game for a 10 yr old kid, by all means buy this game....if you are familiar at all with the Paper Mario Game Series, avoid this like the black plague. It's simply not worth your money, and had it not been for games like Wii Sports and Trauma Center, this game might have soured me completely on the Wii itself.....

It's just a horrible shame, and I'm still upset about it a month after I've bought it. I want my money back!

Too much BLAH BLAH BLAH

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 28
Date: October 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought the wii and paper mario because I was craving a little old school 2D mario action. I think this game is pretty satisfying once you get going and I enjoy it, but I dread all the stupid blathering. The dialog might be ok if it were sort but it isn't even that. It just goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on with inane stupid conversations that consist of nothing better than "I'm better than you!" "Nuh uh!" "Yeah huh!" "Nuh uh!" And if, for example you don't beat the villain at the end of the level you have to scroll through the entire stupid conversation AGAIN! Horrible, just horrible.

I was babysitting a tween recently and they didn't even stick with the game for more than 5 minutes because they said there was too much reading and not enough playing.

Ugh. I want to play not read!

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not a fun game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Don't buy this game. Too much BS reading. I bought this for my 11 years old son and he didn't like it. He got stuck after crossing the first bridge. The game is now sitting there collecting dust!

A rip off

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: November 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Compared to Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door, this game stinks! The battles are worse, the plot is worse, your party is worse, and the bosses stink! If you have any sense at all buy Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door, It's one hundred times better!

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