The beginning of the safe era of Paper Mario games.
I remember having a nice time playing this game, mainly because of the music tracks and the funny "real life items" gimmick, but everything else is a huge step back from what was established in the series.

- Bland story (Save princess peach from bowser, no catches at all).
- Great combat system replaced with a mediocre, sticker dependant one.
- All NPCs and enemies are normal toads and goombas, koopas, etc.
- Kersti's existence as a whole.
- No creative world themes (Grass, Snow, Jungle and so on...)

At its core, Paper Mario: Sticker Star was stripped away from what made prior games in the series so great in the first place, both creativity and the RPG element (a.k.a from all dignity). You know it's bad when even the Beta/E3 footage of the game looks more interesting than what we actually got.

Paper Mario at it's absolute worst, maybe even Nintendo at its worst. The tedium, the backtracking, the convoluted mandatory puzzles that are near impossible without a guide lest you want to spend hours running around picking up random stickers hoping they solve the puzzle. It has bad gameplay, bad story, bad characters.

I'm not someone who just jumped on a hate bandwagon either, I've played the game to it's end and collected every thing sticker to unlock the secret sound test/music room it has. And yeah it's as bad as they say, maybe even worse than they say if you experience world 2 and 3 for yourself.

The only things this game does right is it's visuals which look really nice and it's music that is surprisingly good.

Overall could not recommend this game to anyone. It has very little to nothing for a long running Paper Mario fan, and any non Paper Mario fan looking for a simple Nintendo turn based 3DS game to play have the Mario & Luigi 3DS Titles right there.

Extremely boring, monotonous, and an overall waste of time.

As a huge fan of the Mario RPG series of games, I was elated to find out a new title was coming to the 3DS. However, after playing the game, I couldn't help but feel frustrated by the lack of direction and thought put into the puzzles, bored with the lackluster plot, and tired of exploring the very cookie-cutter world.

I highly suggest you avoid this game. While there is competence in that there is technically a game here, there is nothing of worth for your time. It's the worst kind of game, not one that is good or so bad that it is interesting to play or fun to mess around in.

Tô ficando louco jogando jogo merda pós jogo merda, nesse ritmo vou virar o AVGN, nada nessa merda de jogo funciona, se o jogo fica muito repetitivo ou injusto ele tem o benefício da teimosia como foi com o Super Paper Mario se a história e gameplay forem divertidos, já quando uma MÍDIA é entediante não tem história, tem Personagens chatos, e uma gameplay sem ALMA e pouco inspirada eu já considero um produto ruim. Eu tanko muita coisa, esse trem acabou com tudo de Paper Mario, não foi por limitação de hardware.

Esse é o mesmo console que roda:

Shin Megami Tensei 4
Link's Between Worlds
Final Fantasy Type 0
Resident Evil Revelations
Monster Hunter Ultimate 3.

The weirdest Paper Mario game to date. It had some cool ideas but fails to pull them off in almost every regard. Good levels are few and far between. It almost feels like the game WANTS you to have a bad time with how many malicious choices the game developers made against that go directly the player. Cryptic hints for required items, no rhyme or reason for decisions, malicious game design at its worst. Not worth playing at all without a guide. You WILL become stuck.

The best part about this game is the sounds it makes when you walk.

It’s a been a couple months now, and the more I think about it, the more I actively dislike this game. I still don’t think it’s the irredeemable, franchise-killing monstrosity that Paper Mario fans claim it is, but as I continue to progress through The Origami King, this game’s problems become a lot more blatant. The combat is pointless, most levels are boring (Enigmansion and Snifit-or-Whiffit are still certified bangers, though), and there’s loads of tedious padding and horribly telegraphed puzzles littered throughout.

This game is so weird because most bad games are bad due to jank or lack of polish or whatever, y'know just normal stuff like that. But everything here feels very intentional. The shitty unintuitive sticker system and combat designed around it. The "puzzles" which either involve hitting something random with a hammer, finding some random "thing" sticker that the game likely doesn't tell you about, or some other random obscure solution (intentionally sink in quicksand lmao). The obscene amount of backtracking and level redoing. The bosses being tedious health sponges or dying immediately because you brought the right thing sticker. The boring and uninspired settings reminiscent of 2d mario games alongside the lack of any unique NPCs. The AWFUL "partner" character. The annoyingly heavy reliance on the paper gimmick despite every other Paper Mario game using it as a nice aesthetic. These are all TERRIBLE design choices but not one of them doesn't feel intentional. I'm almost convinced that Nintendo hates Paper Mario fans so much that they hand crafted this game to be the worst shit ever.

People always (fairly) rag on this game for random encounters quite literally being a detriment and there being no point to them, but I'd argue that's the best part about the game. Combat here is so unenjoyable and if you were forced to actually fight random encounters it'd be SO much worse. Because it's pointless, I can just run away from everything and save myself the headache. Yeah the run button barely works and is just RNG dependent but like anything is better than having to sit through all of the random encounters.

Also bowser doesn't even have a line of dialogue here like wtf man he's the best Mario character have some respect.

Also also people who think this is disliked because it's different from the other Paper Mario games are weird. This game is genuinely terrible even if you haven't touched a single Paper Mario game. If you say this is overhated I'm stealing something out of your house.

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!?!?!?

One of the only RPGs where you want to AVOID combat. It punishes you for playing the game.

This game isn't broken. The game isn't rushed. They WANTED to make the game this way. I will never understand how, or why.

look, i get it

sticker star comes at a time where unique mario experiences were released far apart from each other, and for them to give the standard mario treatment to a series that (at the time) symbolized how far an incredibly experimental spin-off series can take itself when given proper love and care, was understandably a motivator in the current outrage that sparked from this game. but if one were to ignore all that, and go into this series with this game as their first experience, they'd walk away thinking it was a fun time.