A charming and at times hilarious adventure that gives me hope that, in the near future, Nintendo can really put some effort into the story of a mainline Mario game.

The game part of Paper Mario however is just too, uh, well, flat - pun not intended. As much as I enjoy the characters and the presentation, after 45 minutes of wandering around and boring turn based battles, I get bored and have to put it down. Hope to come back at some point and wrap this up, but for now it's a DNF for me.