This is a game that was clearly made with an absurd amount of love and care. The presentation is stellar all around. It's potentially one of the best looking games of all time, with a wonderful soundtrack to boot. The story is fun, and has some emotional moments that were shockingly well done.
The gameplay is good, although a bit uneven to be sure. The early game can be rough compared to the rest. The pacing feels sluggish, and the excess simplicity of everything can be a chore. It's not a bad time, especially near the end of the chapter, but it really starts picking up in Chapter 2. From there on out there's a constant barrage of new places, new songs, new gimmicks. It rarely gets very deep or complicated, but I was engaged from the regular stream of cool new stuff that showed up.
The pace is great, rarely lingering on something for too long. The environmental design feels like TTYD with a lot of the fat trimmed, resulting in a smooth experience that still feels like the past Paper Mario games. Combat is overly samey but still enjoyable for the most part, and bosses are a standout highlight.
Origami King is an extremely solid game with some particularly standout elements. Hopefully whatever paper mario game comes out after the TTYD remake can combine the environmental design philosophy of this game with some tighter combat mechanics, and we can get something really great.
The gameplay is good, although a bit uneven to be sure. The early game can be rough compared to the rest. The pacing feels sluggish, and the excess simplicity of everything can be a chore. It's not a bad time, especially near the end of the chapter, but it really starts picking up in Chapter 2. From there on out there's a constant barrage of new places, new songs, new gimmicks. It rarely gets very deep or complicated, but I was engaged from the regular stream of cool new stuff that showed up.
The pace is great, rarely lingering on something for too long. The environmental design feels like TTYD with a lot of the fat trimmed, resulting in a smooth experience that still feels like the past Paper Mario games. Combat is overly samey but still enjoyable for the most part, and bosses are a standout highlight.
Origami King is an extremely solid game with some particularly standout elements. Hopefully whatever paper mario game comes out after the TTYD remake can combine the environmental design philosophy of this game with some tighter combat mechanics, and we can get something really great.
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How could you
Listen, the ideal Paper Mario would be a combination of TTYD and this game. You get the environment design/structure of Origami King with TTYD combat and then you got somethin real cool.
The problem with that is TTYD's environments, world, and story trump those of TOK significantly. While combat is one of the major struggles of TOK, I don't even see it as a top 3 reason of why TTYD is so great. It is solid, which is important, but the story, world, characters, and music do the heavy lifting for me at least. All that being said this is coming from the number 1 neo paper mario hater who has never even played TOK so take it with a grain of salt. I just see red when someone ranks TOK over TTYD.
Ay fair enough, I get mad when someone gives Bowser's Inside Story below an 8 lol. Although, you should try playing Origami King before dismissing it entirely. You might still hate it, but it felt like it captured the same spirit of TTYD (as someone with no nostalgia for the original games).
Beenard
5 months ago