The story of the game is good and the concept works. It has good parts of the game, but then this is probably the worst Paper Mario game for me. The fact that you need stickers to attack means you just farm the best ones and never get into fights with any enemies in fear of losing your stickers. I ended up avoiding as many things as possible and farming basic stickers. Not as fun as just attacking normally like in Bowser's Inside Story.
I will eventually finish the game, I got pretty far in it but then stopped playing it once the switch was released.
I will eventually finish the game, I got pretty far in it but then stopped playing it once the switch was released.
After playing TTYD, really expected this one a lot (especially with the trailers showing Paper Mario was going to come back as a real RPG), I was a kid so I still enjoyed seeing a 3D Paper Mario with some great humor on 3DS, but there was definitly a big downgrade of what this serie was.
And deleting every original story element for what once was the best RPG Nintendo ever made was probably one of the mosy ununderstandable things Nintendo has ever done.
And deleting every original story element for what once was the best RPG Nintendo ever made was probably one of the mosy ununderstandable things Nintendo has ever done.
Instead of ranting about how this game "ruined the Paper Mario series" like most people would I'm gonna list off the actual positive qualities this game has because yes those do exist:
-The soundtrack is a bop, some of the jazziest Mario music ever
-The writing and dialogue is still good
-The level design is surprisingly fun
-Things are a fun and genuinely memorable take on special attacks
-The artstyle and visuals of the game are really charming and honestly the best the series has seen up to this point
...but yeah, as a Paper Mario game, Sticker Star kinda blows lol
-The soundtrack is a bop, some of the jazziest Mario music ever
-The writing and dialogue is still good
-The level design is surprisingly fun
-Things are a fun and genuinely memorable take on special attacks
-The artstyle and visuals of the game are really charming and honestly the best the series has seen up to this point
...but yeah, as a Paper Mario game, Sticker Star kinda blows lol