Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Video Game 2004)
"Paper Mario RPG" (original title)

One day, Princess Toadstool, or Peach, is on a trip to Rougeport, the town of pirates, theives, and other assorted criminals. Peach's trusted caretaker Toadsworth is, of course, making sure... See full summary »

Director:

Ryota Kawade

Stars:

Charles Martinet, Jen Taylor, Scott Burns

Cast

Cast overview:
Charles Martinet	...	Mario (voice)
Jen Taylor	...	Princess Peach (voice)
Scott Burns	...	Bowser (voice)

Storyline

One day, Princess Toadstool, or Peach, is on a trip to Rougeport, the town of pirates, theives, and other assorted criminals. Peach's trusted caretaker Toadsworth is, of course, making sure she stays out of trouble-but he is also not letting her have any fun. So she sneaks away while she is not looking at and a street vendor catches her eye. The mysterious vender tells her that he has a box that only a purehearted person can open, and inside is the key to vast treasure! Peach succeeds in opening the box, which contains a map. She sends the map and a letter to Mario...but by the time he gets to Rougeport, Peach is gone! Mario begins to search for her, and eventually discovers that the map can lead to the seven Crystal Stars-the mystical keys to opening a door far beneath Rougeport that is said to contain the greatest treasure in the world-The Thousand-Year Door! Mario then sets off to gather the stars, and find Peach. Along the way, he meets new friends and makes new enemies-all in his...

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Plot Keywords:

map | mario | sequel | snow | helping | 

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Genres:

Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy

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Certificate:

E

Details

Official Sites:

Nintendo [us]

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese English

Release Date:

11 October 2004 (USA)

Also Known As:

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Company Credits

Production Co:

Intelligent Systems

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the scene where Peach takes a data disk from Grodus' room and puts it in his computer, the image shown on the computer screen is the start-up theme for the Famicom Disk System, an add-on for the Famicom (a.k.a. Nintendo Entertainment System) released only in Japan. The Disk System used floppy-like disks instead of cartridges and helped to pioneer the concept of saving game progress. Some of Nintendo's most famous games, such as Metroid and The Legend of Zelda, were first released on this add-on system.

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Quotes

Goombella: [using her tattle function] That's Stewart, the blimp conductor. He checks tickets for blimp passengers. He's what you call a Cheep-Cheep. Normally they don't hang out on land, but... They've actually been around a while in the Mario Bros. series, you know. Oh, gosh, I just broke through the fourth wall, there, didn't I? Sorry, just forget it.

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Connections

Followed by Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (2005)

User Reviews

A worthy successor to Paper Mario

The story is more complex than any other Mario game, it even has an ongoing sub plot about Luigi's adventures. I laughed out loud at some of the stuff Luigi claimed to have done. There are a lot of laugh out loud moments, my favorite is when at the beginning of the game when you ask where the Princess is, a thug responds 'Why are you after this chick anyway? She owe you money?"

The main villains, the x-nauts, seem like a clever parody of overly sci-fi Sonic baddies. You play as King Koopa in a few wonderfully done special stages that mimic the original Super Mario Brothers, and peach teaches a computer how to *love* in an early story scene. If you loved Paper Mario, or even if you didn't, or even if you just want to see Mario get involved with the mob (it happens) Then this is a MUST-HAVE game. If you have a GameCube, you owe it to yourself to buy this.