I was 9 when I first played this and I felt a genuine sense of loneliness and emptyness while playing. Negative emotions flow through my mind whenever I hear a sound effect from this game. I don’t exactly know what the opposite of nostalgia is, but I heavily associate that feeling with Sticker Star.
At least the music is good…
At least the music is good…
Fuck this game. The first game to ever completely disappoint me. It's an awful RPG, the characters are obnoxious, not funny, and while it's visually alright, later games that continued its terrible gameplay themes look better. Not that I've played them because this game put me off a series I once loved. Perhaps origami king is alright so I might give it a shot one day.
This was so painful as a long time Paper Mario fan, Went in expecting a decent experience came out thinking what types of paper shrooms they was on to let this release. Every world is bland with a few exceptions then the forest segment… terrible level design and near impossible puzzle to solve without a guide. Overall decent music, bland characters and bad gameplay. Skip this one it ain’t worth it
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.
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.
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.
I loved this game as a kid. To be honest I don't really understand the hate but I get that it took a huge step away from the RPG formula. I like the world map and how connected each world feels. The bowser fight is extremely difficult though. Im not going to call it over hated as I can understand that it has major problems
Full disclosure, I haven't played any paper Mario before the reboot on the wii, but I actually enjoyed this one. The idea of using stickers for combat is really cool, and makes it so you need to prepare different sticker sets for different bosses. It feels almost like a Mario and luigi game in this way.