Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

TTYD is everything a Paper Mario game should be, and I’m not surprised by how enthusiastic fans were when they heard the game was finally getting a remaster.

Nostalgia goggles haven’t failed us: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is still a masterpiece. With vastly improved graphics, a great rearranged soundtrack, and a few tasteful gameplay touchups, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for Nintendo Switch is now the best version of this fan-favourite classic. The only thing missing is extra content for those who have already played it, but for everyone else, there’s no reason not to pick this one up.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is a good re-release of a good game, and adjustments made only improve upon it in small but substantial ways. It's an easy recommendation for general audiences and RPG fans. Now, where's my Luigi in Waffle Kingdom RPG?

For 20 years, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has been held as the best Mario RPG of all time, and the Switch remake proves it has earned that title. This is a fantastic RPG adventure, whether you’re a Mario fan or not, with some best-in-class combat, brilliant writing, and a few little creases ironed out to make this the definitive way to play Thousand-Year Door. We wish there was a little more to do post-credits, but there’s no doubt about it, this is a beautiful-looking Switch remake and a must-play RPG.

My first contact with the Paper Mario series turned out to be very enjoyable. The Thousand-Year Door provided me with a great adventure full of discovery (both in terms of the world, and storyline). If you want to try something a bit different, this is a good way to go.

Paper Mario is certainly a very good game. It's sure to delight fans of the license, as well as old hands who've already played the original game 20 years ago on Gamecube. Newcomers, meanwhile, will discover one of the best spin-offs of the famous moustachio. Gripping, fun, funny and charming to the eye, the game has it all. Our only complaint is that the difficulty is still not quite up to scratch, even if those unfamiliar with the genre may find it a little hard to get going at first. On the plus side, this Mario Paper is, like all the games in the license, archi-accessible and well thought-out. It's an ideal entry point for young players who want to discover the basics of turn-based RPGs. In any case, whatever your profile, unless you're totally allergic to the license or hermetic to the genre, Paper Mario is an excellent game that would be a shame to miss on Nintendo Switch.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door exudes charm in every block of paper and cardboard, with multiple secrets, combats and puzzles around every corner; but absurd backtracking and low difficulty spoil the experience.

I always dreamed of playing the original title for gamecube but i've never had the chance, until this remake came out. My expectations were pretty high and I can confidently say that this is one of the best nintendo games of the last 10 years! I loved the story, the characters, the amount of custom strategies that you can create with all the different badges, the soundtrack is spectacular and the game is also not that hard (but to be honest i struggled a lot during the final boss but that's because i wasn't upgrading my partners). In the end, this game is beautiful and way better than those terrible things sticker star and color splash were

It is a very nice game, I like how everything is "paperfied", also creative areas and overall it is nice. The game is pretty easy and like relaxing until like chapter 5 (which is more than 60% of game already completed), after that, you can feel first struggles but for me, it is too late for the game to become challengin after half of the game. But what I hate the most about this game that 30% of gameplay are annoying unskipable dialogs with this annoying beeping. It was maybe fun from beginning but after 20 hours of playing, I would appriciate to skip or at least fastening the dialogs. Especially train chapter was super annoying and after that, I just gave up the game and just watched how it ends. It was good experience but definitelly not comming back to this game

It's fine. Not as good as Paper Mario or SMRPG, but it's a fine game. I don't get the insane praise honestly.

I have no nostalgia for this and can say that I can see why people like this game, I however do not see the grand appeal. The start of the game was fun and memorable, towards the end it becomes a slog, since the only things you can upgrade are HP, Flower Points, and Badge Points. There's not much in the way of customization with your adventure and as you get higher in levels the enemies drop less and less xp. Sure you can compensate the lack of attack and defense with badges, but when they cost 6 and 5 BP to equip them means you have to level up 4 times to increase them by one, and that's just for Mario, not his partners. Sure the partners have a different way to get stronger by ranking them us with shine sprites which unlocks new moves, it still is not enough, just like with Mario you'll have to level up 4 times to increase there attack and defense by 1. You do get items that can increases Mario's attacks, but with out badges you'll spend way to long in battles. Then there are enemy attack that do a straight damage regardless of your defenses. The worlds them selves are fun and unique but there are some parts that are really annoying and require you to back track a few times just to move on and some that if you fail will send you back to the beginning of the room your in when you mess up once, this wouldn't bother me as much if the rooms weren't so long. But the worst of all is that you can kind of soft lock yourself is you are not prepared having you redo boss fights if you don't invest your level up paints just right or don't have items, meaning you'll have to reload your save and have to go though the world twice to get items or respect your level points, which I an glade that there is a place you can reassign your points from one stat to another. To some up my opinion of this game, its a fun games during the beginning but towards the later half becomes a slog that feels like it punishes you for not investing your points just right or for not being prepared. if you enjoy this game, good for you but for me the fun ran out somewhat quickly.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]