The pinnacle of mustache role-playing games returns to Switch: the remake of the second Paper Mario, The Thousand-Year Portal, closes the Nintendo Direct
For what seems to be Switch’s sunset avenue, aiming for a bomb with a capital B to close the last one Nintendo Direct It might seem like science fiction, but we can’t think of anything more explosive than a remake of nothing less than Paper Mario: The Millennial Portal. The second chapter of the series Intelligent Systems (Fire Emblem), originally released on Nintendo GameCube, is in fact also the last exponent of the saga to boast a traditional role-playing game structure. And since Shigeru Miyamoto’s diktat (“Do you really need to have a story?”) started the decline of Sticker Star and Color Splash, for longtime fans this is an unexpected miracle.
#PaperMario: The Millennial Portal will come up #NintendoSwitch next year.
Discover Mario’s adventure in a paper world, a Nintendo GameCube classic that returns with improved graphics! #NintendoDirect pic.twitter.com/rYLquLZLsD
— Nintendo Italia (@NintendoItalia) September 14, 2023
The most unexpected remake with which to close the Nintendo Direct in the most beautiful way, Paper Mario: the Millennial Portal
It really seems like a thousand years have passed. The successor to the original on Wii, Super Paper Mario, extended Bowser’s platformer phases to the entire gameplay formula, which the remake trailer reminds us have arrived perfectly intact on Switch. Sticker Star on 3DS, then, completely stripped the game of the RPG cornerstones seen in the series, such as experience points and the presence of allies. In short, younger fans will finally be able to understand what reason their older colleagues had to complain. The only flaw in this announcement… the fact that it isn’t talked about before next year!
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