Garbage. This game is literally a crime.
I could've ended off here, but it now falls on me to do the explaining. Mario and Luigi was once a masterful Mario RPG subseries made by the late Alphadream that Nintendo used as an excuse to ruin Paper Mario, on the pretense that they already had a Mario RPG series, and wanted to do something different with Paper Mario, hence transforming Paper Mario into Paper Jam with Sticker Star. This resulted in a dangerous loop for both series ironically, where Paper Mario was mortified into a zombie looking even creepier than Doopliss, and Mario and Luigi was left on life support for a few years, before dying off thanks to this piece of garbage, Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam. A game that was supposed to marry both beloved subseries together, only stifled creative liberty by destroying everything that made Mario and Luigi great via jamming Paper Jam's solace and stupidity into the forefront. The rich storytelling of MandL was completely axed in favor of yet another Paper Jam story, where two Bowsers act in tandem to do evil things for the umpteenth time, intruding on a series whose first main antagonist wasn't even Bowser. Give the Koopa King a break, writers. He deserves better than this.
Despite the gameplay very much being Mario and Luigi, the tone and feeling is again severely corrupted. The gameplay is still fun and I would give this abomination a 5/10 just for having fantastic gameplay if it hadn't crushed Mario and Luigi with it. Paper Jam is the reason Alphadream went bankrupt, because this game was so unappealing and antithetical to a subseries whose creative status was untouched, so it had to be destroyed for the greater good according to Nintendo. This is why Paper Mario should've never been ruined, because its influence is what destroyed Mario and Luigi to begin with.
I could've ended off here, but it now falls on me to do the explaining. Mario and Luigi was once a masterful Mario RPG subseries made by the late Alphadream that Nintendo used as an excuse to ruin Paper Mario, on the pretense that they already had a Mario RPG series, and wanted to do something different with Paper Mario, hence transforming Paper Mario into Paper Jam with Sticker Star. This resulted in a dangerous loop for both series ironically, where Paper Mario was mortified into a zombie looking even creepier than Doopliss, and Mario and Luigi was left on life support for a few years, before dying off thanks to this piece of garbage, Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam. A game that was supposed to marry both beloved subseries together, only stifled creative liberty by destroying everything that made Mario and Luigi great via jamming Paper Jam's solace and stupidity into the forefront. The rich storytelling of MandL was completely axed in favor of yet another Paper Jam story, where two Bowsers act in tandem to do evil things for the umpteenth time, intruding on a series whose first main antagonist wasn't even Bowser. Give the Koopa King a break, writers. He deserves better than this.
Despite the gameplay very much being Mario and Luigi, the tone and feeling is again severely corrupted. The gameplay is still fun and I would give this abomination a 5/10 just for having fantastic gameplay if it hadn't crushed Mario and Luigi with it. Paper Jam is the reason Alphadream went bankrupt, because this game was so unappealing and antithetical to a subseries whose creative status was untouched, so it had to be destroyed for the greater good according to Nintendo. This is why Paper Mario should've never been ruined, because its influence is what destroyed Mario and Luigi to begin with.