Paper Mario RPG (2004) (VG)

Director:

Ryota Kawade

Release Date:

11 October 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy

Plot:

One day, Princess Toadstool, or Peach, is on a trip to Rougeport, the town of pirates, theives, and other assorted criminals...

Plot Keywords:

Map | Mario | Sequel | Snow | Helping

Cast

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

Also Known As:

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (USA)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese | English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

USA:E

Company:

Intelligent Systems

Trivia:

A small toad in Petalburg will rave about his favorite video games if you talk to him. When you go into the town for the first time, he will talk about Fire Emblem for the Game Boy Advance. Later, around the time you make it into Hooktail's castle but before you beat Hooktail, he'll be talking about Paper Mario for the Nintendo 64. Finally, when you come back to the town after beating Hooktail, he'll tell you that he's playing Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. All three of these games were developed by the company Intelligent Systems.

Quotes:

Doopliss: [after guessing his name wrong] Wrongamundo, little nobody! Who'd name their kid that?

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)

Kind of a role playing game lite, but fun nonetheless.

Considering these days of the 50 plus hour role playing game, it was a nice change of pace to play this quirky game. Granted it wasn't exactly short topping 30 hours, but that is still a far cry from the games out today that take over 50 without doing all the side quests. However, it being a Mario game it is going to be more kid friendly and funny rather than dramatic and epic. The fighting is turned based, however you get to push buttons to strengthen your attacks. You have two people in your party, one always being Mario and the other one of the many funny characters Mario meets during his journey through a place called Rougeport. Princess Peach sent Mario a map said to have the location of a hidden treasure on it and she wants him to meet her in Rougeport. Well Mario can't refuse, but by the time he arrives, gasp, the princess has been kidnapped. Well this time Bowser is not responsible, though he does make many humorous appearances in the game...no this time it is a mysterious group called the X-nauts. So Mario must join forces with many in the town of Rougeport and surrounding lands to obtain the crystal stars. You have your basic levels and your not so basic as you have train mystery's to solve and you must fight your way to the top in an arena type setting. So the game gives you differing things to do so all in all it is rather fun.