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This guy talks just like Alan from Smiling Friends

Are we sure this game wasn’t written by Luigi’s partners from TTYD? That spiteful blooper in particular?

I'm not kidding this might be the ONLY mario game I disliked so much, I couldn't even get myself to finish it. Uninspired areas, characters and the gameplay with all the toad rescuing makes this just a really bad game in my opinion. Even in games like Sticker Star I had lots of fun. Yes, there’s a lot to hate about it, but it was still paper mario at it's core with unique areas with cool concepts to go through. Paper Jam had nothing of that. A series KNOWN for it's unique areas and crazy concepts and cool characters. And worst of all, the idea of combining the paper mario world with the real mario world has SO MUCH potential, yet it flopped so hard. I'm super excited to see the series return with a banger game. Glad I got this video in my recommended :)

The most enjoyable thing about Paper Jam (or "Paper Jam Bros.", as it is for some reason named over here) is actually, ironically enough, due to its lower quality, and that's its abundance of insane glitches. Said glitches include being able to clip out of bounds almost anywhere, being able to activate a cutscene during a load transition (which lets you move around while holding R to fast-forward, meaning you can move around at hyperspeed), or escaping a mission and then beating the final boss, causing you to be unable to return to said boss and thus bricking your file. This sheer level of brokenness (?) allows you to beat this otherwise very long-winded game in less than an hour, which I like to interpret as flipping the game off.

Super mario galaxy 2 will always be my favourite game of all time. I prefer it over galaxy 1 probably because I got this game first, so it’s more nostalgic to me. However, every galaxy is just pure fun and the game throws so many ideas at you that I think it's the superior game. I also reallyyy love the idea of traveling through the different atmospheres with your ship and that the atmosphere changes in the hub world depending on which world you are in. What really pushed this game to my favorite is probably the green stars. Some people see it as lazy content, but in my eyes it's an amazing addition. Green stars are in the most ABSURD places that makes me think I'm breaking the game and that is amazing, plus it's also really fun going back to all the stages and having a trip down memory lane. And of course, it ends with the coolest galaxy ever. Banger game, 11/10, would recommend this game again and again <3

I think instead of reusing Galaxy 1’s plot, Galaxy 2 should’ve had Tatanga from Mario Land 1 as the main villain. It would’ve made sense with him being an alien

Peach saying that about Luigi is where it really clicked how bad the bizarre cynisism towards Luigi was. She'd never say something like that about him, it was very out of character and almost made her feel like a mouthpiece for the script writer.

Very well-thought analysis of what most people missed when discussing the gameplay of Fury, there's just one small add-on that should have been mentioned on 3D World. While you already said how 3D World's level and world gameplay structure highlights the issue with repetition in the open-world genre, one of the issues I dislike the most just further proves the point, especially for 100%-ing. WHY THE HELL DO I NEED TO PLAY EACH GODDAMN LEVEL WITH EACH CHARACTER JUST TO GET THE CHARACTER'S STAMP?! THEY'RE THE CENTRAL FOCUS OF THE ENTIRE GAME AND SOMEHOW I'M FORCED TO REPEATEDLY COMPLETE EACH LEVEL IN A TOTAL OF 5 TIMES JUST TO COLLECT THEM! Also why Plessie was extremely fun to cruise around in the lake, the mention of Jaxi as a worse controllable character literally used for challenges (Moons) where the main difficulty is the controls further undermines this 'travel-issue'.

idk i like this game actually

Very cool video!

I like people talking about my childhood games, or rather our childhood memories

- Make a crossover between two Mario RPG series that have some of the most unique characters & locations in the franchise at the time - Make the world in the crossover as generic as a Mario world can be with no characters specific to either series appearing or even mentioned (To keep the Sticker Star comparisons going, even Sticker Star mentioned Goombella at one point)

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Stellar analysis. Loathe as I am to admit it, the City stuff didn’t even occur to me. Maybe that’s just a casualty of how minimally the game meditates on it. I didn’t like the ending either, but for me, the final straw was allowing the worlds to ultimately reunite last minute. I actually don’t mind splitting them apart, because it felt like one of the story’s few genuinely consequential decisions. Forcing Noah and the gang to choose between their ideals and relationships with each other is interesting because in all other respects, Xenoblade 3 seems terrified of exploring unchangeable loss. Don’t like that Ethel is dead? Complete this quest to revive her! Not sure about erasing Ghondor’s entire being? Don’t worry, she believes she’ll be inexplicably reborn as a perfect facsimile! Sad that the worlds ultimately split apart? My, is that Mio’s flute I hear? And then there’s Miyabi, Mwamba… the list goes on. I’m genuinely stunned by the decision to make loss meaningless in a story about war. I love this series and didn’t hate 3, but man did that game stomp all over its narrative stakes.

This type of video seems to be especially popular with Wii and DS games

Something is wrong here,How does Sticker star have more sales than TTYD and 64? (I will assume people stormed to buy it before knowing how lifeless it is,but do correct me if i am wrong)

Dang, just noticed how few views this has. Solid video.

Why did the mario cross the <insert location>? To reach bowser's castle

I wanted to see If I could come up with some names for The Locations based off Paper Puns, which was...hard. Mount Lamin, as In Laminated Paper. Charcoal Caverns, for a Fiery Underground Foldue Fields, Fold. And Origami Citadel.

Now I just want to play dream team again

I think one thing that drove us up the wall about Tears of the Kingdom was it shoving Zelda and Ganondorf, *again* , into the exact same roles as they've always had. The series is supposed to be in an era of refresh, and yet the obsession with never letting these three stray from their designated roles made us outright dislike how they handled every one of them. I want to see a Ganondorf who isn't the bad guy. I want to see a *PLOT HEAVY* Zelda who doesn't have a carbon copy repeat of her last game. Like, this game includes time travel purely as a means to shove Zelda out of the picture, to fridge herself for a sword that doesn't even work, and *nothing* else??

1:36 "A crossover between the two Mario RPG series seemed like a perfectly great idea on *_paper_* " >:(

For me, it's not the dungeons that matter in botw and totk, it's the journey to the dungeon. I don't think these games work with the dungeon concept, considering how the devs really did not want to lock the player into a linear area like past games do. However, it's the exploration and journey accompanied by each dungeon's respective character that makes it for me, and the games could be much stronger if the dungeons didn't focus on the puzzles but instead the boss fights or something else.

If you ask me, it's because it really feels like a Mario&Luigi: Sticker Star. That has to be the single most boring game imaginable. I would still consider Sticker star worse for a simple reason: It has a terrible combat system and awful communication, but bow is Paper Jam a close second, somehow worse than Color Splash. I'll take exessive tutorial over sheer boredom, thank you.

finally someone agrees with me

"720 Pokémon, the total number of Pokémon from the first 6 generations" Volcanion found dead in a ditch

Zelda: Twilight Princess is another game criticised for its long intro, but I've always enjoyed it. It helps establish the world and make Link more relateable, and gives him more real world responsibility. It's why I don't connect eith other Zelda games as much, Twilight Princess just has a unique charm that its long intro helps build.

as someone who is nostalgic for sticker star, i am glad for the praise it gets in this video

Going through a binge on your videos since they're really that good, I'd say this is my favourite one so far. Keep up the good work man

Aight, time to watch this out of nowhere.

I think your point about the Larry fight also puts into context why people find the combat in 64 and The Thousand-Year Door more fulfilling. Those games have proper progression systems, yes, but they still thrive on the strategization that Color Splash *attempts* to put into focus - especially before you obtain the Quick Change badge. Something that has baffled me since Sticker Star's release, however, is the games forcing you to defeat each group of enemies in a straight line. Although encounters are designed around this mechanic in some cases, like the Boo stack and Larry fights, I've always felt that it *limits* strategization and is another reason why combat in Sticker Star and Color Splash feel so unfulfilling. Using multiple attacks in a single turn is essentially a stand-in for having partners, but the lack of choice in how to utilize those turns is really off-putting.

In a more recent video of Sticker Star I watched the dude just basically stocked up and spammed Thing Stickers which, outside of boss battles being DISGUSTINGLY reliant on you solving their puzzle, seemed to be almost intentional in terms of trying to get a perfect.

Jesus Christ I can't believe I forgot the existence of this game

Such good content, im happy i found this great channel

The Luigi bullying would make more sense if Paper Luigi was also here and being the kind of pompous dude he tends to be, standing at odds with Luigi, and maybe even hanging back being kinda useless actively. Ah what lost opportunities.

these USERS at NINTENDO have TORTURED LUIGI for NO REASON

I think manual boot up is great because it encourages going to different places after another, not just staying in a single location making it staleish Whenever you got a cat shine in any given "stage" and you went to another "stage" to "boot out" did you not try to do the cat shine in the other stage you went to?

I LOVE this game.

Great video its just too bad that this game did not sell well because nobody is talking about it anymore unfortunately they should make a layton collection of all the games before the new one comes out but i doubt that will happen

You sound like Allan from smiling friends at times

While I am certainly someone who prefers the more serene and contemplative atmosphere of Galaxy 1, I absolutely agree that reducing the conversation around the games to “story vs gameplay” is unfair to both titles. I always hate when people say things like “Mario games aren’t known for their stories,” because, as you laid out, the emergent stories the games tell as one plays through them are, for many of us, the entire appeal of the series. I would argue that Galaxy 1 does have a better sense of narrative progression than you give it credit for, with Melty Molten Galaxy feeling like a perfect pre-climax that even ends with a cleverly remixed version of the first boss, but its true that this narrative is somewhat upended if you do not choose to play new galaxies as they become available. Ultimately I think I would argue Galaxy 1 has a “better” story simply because I prefer its gameplay, and thus, its emergent narrative beats, but you make some great points in favor of Galaxy 2. Really, it is a game whose presentation and emergent story still surpass many, many others, and that’s worth appreciating

NGL as much as I get where you are coming from and agree with a few of your points especially for the first part about side quests are structured. I disagree with a lot your interpretation of the ending mostly cus I disagree with two of your interpretations of the themes themselves. I feel like we got something very different out of the games narrative. Honestly the DLC doubling down and being like “yes the worlds are connected in the ending” feels very interesting to me.

I remember playing this when it came out. I never finished Dream team, but I liked it enough to try out Paper Jam. I didn’t end up going past the first cave sequence of the second world. I didn’t know WHY it wasn’t as fun, but now I do lol

The satire of review essays was too good. Need more of this sort of experimentation with other TH-camrs.

This was my second paper mario, after the original, and I loved both.

17:38 behold, crucified mario

i remember i was half way through the game. but i didn't get to finish it

I'm honestly flabbergasted that you've 100%ed Odyssey twice but haven't done all the shrines in TotK once lol

I don't fully understand what this video is about but it's actually amazing I rate it 9.9/10

this video is a refreshing break from the endless cycle of the same talking points being used against sticker star and refusal to acknowledge its best moments as someone who earnestly enjoyed sticker star and ALSO played this game, you are so fucking spot on with your analysis sticker star did a handful of things very poorly, a handful of things not so good, and a handful of things absolutely solidly paper jam is the type of game that im surprised you got this much commentary out of