Super Paper Mario reviews..

McDermotX

Don't normally trust their reviews, but sounds like the first decent game for the Wii since Zelda is on the way.. (not counting the VC)

http://www.gaming-age.com/cgi-bin/reviews/review.pl?sys=wii&game=superpaper

Having said that, some of the comments don't befit an A- game..

http://wii.ign.com/articles/778/778606p1.html

Im_No_Superman

Really looking forward to this, got some great reviews. Has there been a european release date yet?

Retr0gamer

I wouldn't trust IGN lately. They gave some great games lately bad reviews, namely Earth Defence Force (sounded like they had a blast and then marked it down for not being technically proficient) and God Hand (Don't understand why at all). Seems SPM was marked down for having too much text and the 3D sections looking flat (newsflash, this is paper mario afer all).

Rhyme

Retr0gamer wrote:

Seems SPM was marked down for having too much text and the 3D sections looking flat (newsflash, this is paper mario after all).

F*cking Hell... are they trying to piss people off?

If it's half as good as Paper Mario 2, it'll be a blast and worth owning. Pity we have to wait until after the Summer.

Roll on Datel's Freeloader for the Wii.

projectmayhem

Retr0gamer wrote:

Seems SPM was marked down for having too much text and the 3D sections looking flat (newsflash, this is paper mario afer all).

whatever about the graphical elements, the text part does irk me a bit. all the videos i've seen show an awful lot of scrolling through text. i dislike this, a lot. if i wanted lots of text i'd pick up whatever book i'm reading right now, instead of read a mario game. this is probably why i don't like animal crossing, pokemon and all that stuff

Timans

projectmayhem wrote:

whatever about the graphical elements, the text part does irk me a bit. all the videos i've seen show an awful lot of scrolling through text. i dislike this, a lot. if i wanted lots of text i'd pick up whatever book i'm reading right now, instead of read a mario game. this is probably why i don't like animal crossing, pokemon and all that stuff

Pokemon is the greatest game.

Rhyme

Timans wrote:

Pokemon is the greatest game

...involving creatures in balls.

Timans

Is there any other sort?

monkeyfudge

Super Monkey Ball is pretty good too though in the creatures in balls genre...

Clearly creatures in balls makes your game a sure fire hit.

Timans

I say "Crash Bandicoot in Large Balls".

Sounds like a hit.

monkeyfudge

How about "Thing on a Spring in a Ball"?

Rhyme

monkeyfudge wrote:

How about "Thing on a Spring in a Ball"?

'Super MonkeyBall Deluxe: Magic Roundabout Movie Tie-In'?

monkeyfudge

I probably shouldn't reference obscure games from over 20 years ago...

http://homepages.tesco.net/~parsonsp/html/thing_on_a_spring.html

Star Lord

How about bouncing-babies-in-a-ball? *wonders how many others know this oldie*

Loved Paper Mario - TTYD, and Mario and Luigi so I've no doubt that I'll love Super Paper Mario The text doesn't bother me, if the script writing is up to the Paper Mario/Mario and Luigi standard then all the better!

koneko

Ball in a cup! It's a ball, it goes in the cup, don't worry if you drop it, it's on a string! Ball in a cup!

Zapp Brannigan

koneko wrote:

Ball in a cup! It's a ball, it goes in the cup, don't worry if you drop it, it's on a string! Ball in a cup!

Blowing. My. Mind.

Antamojo

Yeah the game looks great

Star Lord

koneko wrote:

Ball in a cup! It's a ball, it goes in the cup, don't worry if you drop it, it's on a string! Ball in a cup!

Oh no! I didn't catch the ball in the cup! Oh, wait a minute, it's ok, because the ball is on a string and attached to the cup!

Basq

OK.. i had to do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=firG54W7VBk

tuxy

What's this thread about?

Rhyme

tuxy wrote:

What's this thread about?

Convenient toys.

...oh and the release of Super Paper Mario in America and it's subsequent reviews.

Helix

have it here now

report in the next few days

Im_No_Superman

Helix wrote:

have it here now

report in the next few days

You lucky son of a gun!

Helix

wii only arrived today so still gettin go grips with play and sports before i hit the proper games

CiDeRmAn

Reckon its going to be nice, although Edge did take a poke at it because it was a late transfer from the GC and apart from the pointing at the screen mechanic there is little that couldn't be done, although perhaps the fact that no one would have bought the game on the GC could have been a deciding factor fot Nintendo.
Actually I've been playing it for the last few days and its brilliant, very god indeed.

mikeruurds

What a great game. I haven't played any Paper Mario games before, but I thoroughly enjoyed playing it for 2 hours this evening.

Top stuff!

Mike

Retr0gamer

TBH who actually listens to them idiots from Overly Pretentious Edge anymore.

Sharkbte

cant wait to play this game IMO gonna be the best game for wii of 2007 if it comes out in 2007 I played the gc. one of my fav all time games

doonothing

**** off, not til after the summer? that <h3>sucks</h3>

Balfa

Got this on Sunday, great game! Who would have expected any less from Intelligent Systems. The gobs of text is because this is an RPG-platformer. It goes a little deeper in the story than your typical mario platformer :P The 2d-3d flipping thing is really quite awesome, and breathes much more life into the game than I expected it would.

Some things are really hard to spot in 2d, but once you've seen them in 3d they're obvious in 2d and you wonder why you didn't notice
I've seen some cunning uses of this in the levels I've played through so far that makes me sit back and think of the developers "you cheeky buggers!". Hopefully the level design will continue being this creative throughout the game.

Unfortunately, it's a bit easier to be in 3d for much of the time than I would have liked. It becomes fairly standard to switch to 3d every few seconds just to glance around for hidden items, instead of having to resort to 3d when you're well and truly stuck.


And there's no button to run At least so far. 1 on the wiimote seems like you can change what function it performs by meeting certain characters, though I haven't played for that long and have only met one such character so far.

You can also point the wiimote at anything interesting on the screen and get a bit of text blurb about it, which provides extra fleshing out that I love in games

Rhyme

Balfa wrote:

And there's no button to run At least so far. 1 on the wiimote seems like you can change what function it performs by meeting certain characters, though I haven't played for that long and have only met one such character so far.

That'll be solved later on.

Balfa

Hmm. It seems to have some DS connectivity feature (recipes?) that isn't yet enabled. It says something like "awaiting update" when you try it. I can't find any information about it on the web...

edit: oh, heh. Just altered my google search ("connectivity" instead of "link"). It turns out it's not a connectivity thing after all

doonothing

does anyone else kinda think paper mario would make a great DS title rather than wii?
i realllly love the paper mario games! most rpgs just freak me out with their vastness unless i have a guide to help me when im lost, paper mario is always just the right amounta fun!

Rhyme

I hate the way they published their Q2 list and Super Paper Mario disappeared (at least until July), then someone let's slip a date late in May and now nothing... it's gotten so bad that i'm listening to the Super Paper Mario soundtrack on my pc

Killaqueen!!!

DamoElDiablo wrote:

Oh no! I didn't catch the ball in the cup! Oh, wait a minute, it's ok, because the ball is on a string and attached to the cup!

And who says FG stopped being funny after season 3?

Anyway, I've never heard of this paper mario thing...is mario made of paper in it?!

doonothing

yes he is! it's after the super mario rpg on the snes, kinda like mario but with platforming mixed with final fantasy, it is EPIC!!! and really funny, the scripts are always GAS.

elekid

I'm really looking forward to this, I've loved all the other Mario RPGs and I've heard only good things about this one.

Why do we have to wait so long for it?

GhostInTheRuins

Can't wait for this one, i've looked at a few videos of it and i gotta say it looks damn cool!

CiDeRmAn

The game is sweet, packed full of in jokes, its script is funny and yes, this would make an ace DS game, perhaps a sequel, top screen showing 2D bottom screen 3D, a bit like the old C64 game Parallax.

doonothing

well my whistle is whetted... they better make it happen!
even an n64/gamecube port of a previous paper mario would do nicely