Paper Mario: Color Splash
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I was referring to the "moving parts" approach, which is the other method to use sprites. I was used to it as I started with TTYD and it creates fluid 60 fps animations, but now that I look at these sprite sheets I think I really like the full-bodied sprites more, and I hope they will be used more extensively.Baby Luigi said:
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Even the original Paper Mario uses moving parts. Bowser's and Paratroopa's sprite sheets for starters. Usually, they do the moving parts method for Flash-animated games like Thousand-Year Door and Rayman Legends.
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Oh, excellent!
Cool. Didn't know that they did this. Did the original PM do this?Baby Luigi said:
Also it's cool to see sprites instead of models, I love sprite art.
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It's the same for those 2D PlayStation 1 games like Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and a bunch of others. Even Yoshi's Story uses 2D sprites for an N64 game and that horrible Mortal Kombat game on both PS1 and N64.Baby Luigi said:
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No it's not the same, unlike Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Yoshi's Story game.
Those games use pre-rendered sprites, something in a completely different territory than what Paper Mario uses. Pre-rendered sprites are still 2D graphics that still uses frames to animate. Games like Paper Mario use a 3D plane for very flattened 3D models that use textures to convey itself.
Those games use pre-rendered sprites, something in a completely different territory than what Paper Mario uses. Pre-rendered sprites are still 2D graphics that still uses frames to animate. Games like Paper Mario use a 3D plane for very flattened 3D models that use textures to convey itself.
By the way, is this the first Paper Mario game that has a second ending when you 100% the game (whatever that means)? I was wondering whether to put this in the trivia of the wiki page or not.
Re: My very important hot take as someone who hasn't played the game
Actually, if you see the Encyclopedia Super Mario Bros. (and in general, the illustrations done for the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros.), you'll see that the paper characters of Color Splash (especially the Koopalings and Yoshi) are derived from these illustrations, with some changes mainly involving body proportions and the eyes, changed to black dots in most cases (two important exceptions being Draggadon and Iggy, who retains the circle-like irises). The style is probably derived from the NSMB series, but it is not identical, if anything because it's hand-drawn.Nitwit said:
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Why is Yoshi helping the enemies?!
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Simply being a Yoshi isn't and shouldn't be an indicator that it's a good guy
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Birdo is worth more than all those 16 Toads.
Me too, definitely! My point is not saying that Color Splash has the variety of TTYD, as female Toads (including Toadette), child Toads and Toadsworth are missing.Baby Luigi said:
I now suspect why Toadsworth and Toadette were missing from Paper Jam: the "new" paper counterpart were not yet done by the new Paper Mario team, while the paper Koopalings were revealed but not introduced not to spoil things too much, I guess.
I did say "new" paper counterpart for a reason. Did you see any sprite unique to the first three Paper Mario games in Paper Jam? No, because there weren't. All the sprites came from Sticker Star (or maybe even Color Splash). You can esaily see how the "paper" sprites given to AlphaDream came from the new team, not the team that made the first three game.Nitwit said:
In the case of Toadette, her sprite wasn't usable anyway, as she was based on the artwork of MK: DD with the orange dress, not her actual design.
