Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)

[Dr. Lyra Orpheus]

Nah.

New Paper Mario enemies are soulless, the old ones have more personality. Plus, all the art here is actually new, it is much higher resolution than the original art and there are many new animations seen even in the trailer. It's not just a copypaste.

 

[Fawfulthegreat64]

I like how they just took the old character models and applied a shiny coat of paint to them.

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No I don't.

I love it. They aren't just the reused sprites, they pulled out the uncompressed versions for this, and I'm so happy everything wasn't redesigned to look like the (mostly inferior) modern designs. Even Peach has her old dress despite her having an updated one in SPM, so that suggests a deliberate choice to maintain how EVERY character looked in TTYD and I applaud that.

I could have done with the modern versions of Yoshi and Dry Bones though, and a middle ground design for Hammer Bro, but I doubt a game that combines the best of both classic and modern styles is ever on the table, they wouldn't bring back only SOME of the classic designs, so I'm satisfied with this.

 

[Koopa con Carne]

On the topic of character designs, it seems like everyone is going crazy over a Toad NPC who wasn't in the original version. They take it as concrete evidence of the idea that Nintendo have fully eased their supposed Mario mandates. Even Yahoo Finances of all outlets reported on it.

And my reaction to this is... what's the big deal again? Only the usual attire and color has changed from the Toad template; the character otherwise doesn't have hair nor a different body shape. The hat doesn't even cover the entire scalp, like you see in TTYD's Toad train workers. Toad designs in Color Splash and Origami King were afforded various articles of clothing, too, and that happened during the "stringent" era of Paper Mario, no? Here are some examples from across these two games:

Am I missing something?

 

[Pixelcraftian]

Is this the game that's gonna resurrect Toadsworth?

 

[Dr. Lyra Orpheus]

On the topic of character designs, it seems like everyone is going crazy over a Toad NPC who wasn't in the original version. They take it as concrete evidence of the idea that Nintendo have fully eased their supposed Mario mandates. Even Yahoo Finances of all outlets reported on it.

And my reaction to this is... what's the big deal again? Only the usual attire and color has changed from the Toad template; the character otherwise doesn't have hair nor a different body shape. Toad designs in Color Splash and Origami King were afforded various wear too, and that happened during the "stringent" era of Paper Mario, no? Here are some examples from across these two games:

Am I missing something?

I don't really understand this myself because Origami King in particular had a wide variety of designs and outfits for all sorts of different species across the game.

I think the real buzz around the new toad NPC I have heard though is mostly based around how the remake getting new NPCs means that some things might actually be different/there might be more content. While this toad guy is probably just a reskin of a generic toad that existed in the original or some kind of amiibo NPC, at least it's something to talk about.

 

[Xiahou Ba]

New Paper Mario enemies are soulless, the old ones have more personality.

I'm sorry but what? They're both just standing there both making a blank emotionless facial expression. Characters don't express personality by just standing there with a dead eyed facial expression. It's how they're posed and animate is what gives them life, not if they're designed to look like how they look like in the other games.

 

[Xiahou Dun]

I think the real buzz around the new toad NPC I have heard though is mostly based around how the remake getting new NPCs means that some things might actually be different/there might be more content. While this toad guy is probably just a reskin of a generic toad that existed in the original or some kind of amiibo NPC, at least it's something to talk about.

I'm down for the game getting new content at least, which is very good but I'm still not wholly convinced the game should be higher than 40 bucks. We'll see if new content and significant improvements can alleviate the concerns.

 

[Dr. Lyra Orpheus]

I'm down for the game getting new content at least, which is very good but I'm still not wholly convinced the game should be higher than 40 bucks. We'll see if new content and significant improvements can alleviate the concerns.

The original game is over a hundred dollars used now. $60 for a full remake is literally the cheapest way to play the game and doesn't also require you to buy old hardware as well.

Yes, you can emulate, but TTYD kind of emulates like shit at points (paper folding effects can cause bad slowdown or even freezing). If it was just a straight port I would agree but a full remake I think justifies the price tag when they alternative is paying twice as much.