How Paper Mario: Origami King's Puzzle Battles Work
News24xx.com - Nintendo’s next big Switch game is Paper Mario: The Origami King announced less than two months ago via a humble tweet and arriving on July 17. The Paper Mario series’ reputation has been a bit spotty as of late, but Origami King has by and large gotten rid of the more annoying parts of the last couple of games, leaving us with pure unadulterated papery goodness.
Paper Mario began as a sequel to the 1995 Super NES game Super Mario RPG, but with each sequel, Nintendo’s deliberately moved further and further away from typical RPG genre conventions. It clearly wants the Paper Mario games to be an RPG-like experience in the sense that they involve Mario going on a grand world-spanning adventure, growing in power, and fighting in turn-based battles. What they don’t want is all the math stuff: grinding for experience points, swapping out accessories with slightly different stats, managing a pool of magic points, etc.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. It’s hard to think about Paper Mario’s evolution without dwelling on its missteps on the way, like the controversial Sticker Star for 3DS. That game had a clever central idea—using a book full of collectible stickers in battle—but then absolutely poisoned it by making collecting and buying stickers a total slog, as well as tying success in boss battles to finding specific stickers hidden somewhere in the world.
Color Splash on the Wii U fixed some of these issues—the in-game economy for its consumable card-based attacks was much more generous—but kept others, like requiring a certain rare card for each boss battle.
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