Maybe people here have just think that Origami King's good in comparison to Sticker Star and Color Splash, but as a guy whose last Paper Mario game was Super Paper Mario, this was god awful.
Character design is bland with little personality to it, the writing was just insufferable, with Olivia being on the level of Fi and Navi for just stating the most obvious thing and feeling like 5-6 steps behind my own thought process. She's genuinely stupid and I couldn't stop myself from groaning or rolling my eyes when she would flap her little origami mouth.
The partners were tolerable, but felt more like a bone being thrown to fans who want the partners that were in the first trilogy, with Bobby being useless as all shit. No, it wasn't sad when he died, shut up.
The combat system was gimmicky and rather worthless, seeing as how running felt like a much better alternative. And between time extensions and Toads literally solving the puzzles for you, why were there so many ways to make the combat system something to easily avoid? Did the team know it stinks, but it was too late to fundamentally change? Either go all in or don't do it.
This game feels like it wants to harken back to the old days of Paper Mario, but either doesn't know how to or doesn't want to fully commit. And when you try and make something for everyone, you end up just making crap that nobody can really enjoy.
tl;dr Leave Paper Mario in the shredder where it belongs. You're not gonna get the good stuff ever again. Just play Bug Fables instead.
Character design is bland with little personality to it, the writing was just insufferable, with Olivia being on the level of Fi and Navi for just stating the most obvious thing and feeling like 5-6 steps behind my own thought process. She's genuinely stupid and I couldn't stop myself from groaning or rolling my eyes when she would flap her little origami mouth.
The partners were tolerable, but felt more like a bone being thrown to fans who want the partners that were in the first trilogy, with Bobby being useless as all shit. No, it wasn't sad when he died, shut up.
The combat system was gimmicky and rather worthless, seeing as how running felt like a much better alternative. And between time extensions and Toads literally solving the puzzles for you, why were there so many ways to make the combat system something to easily avoid? Did the team know it stinks, but it was too late to fundamentally change? Either go all in or don't do it.
This game feels like it wants to harken back to the old days of Paper Mario, but either doesn't know how to or doesn't want to fully commit. And when you try and make something for everyone, you end up just making crap that nobody can really enjoy.
tl;dr Leave Paper Mario in the shredder where it belongs. You're not gonna get the good stuff ever again. Just play Bug Fables instead.