Gallery: Nintendo Introduces The Cast Of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Man I’m so glad to see these characters return, each character has a great personality and story. Their movesets are really fun to use too!

I believe there's someone missing... right? 🐭😘

@Luigivaldo Perhaps they didn't want to spoil who it was.

@Luigivaldo shhh… she’s supposed to be a secret!

Anybody remember how the US marketing team for TTYD back then were 100% silent about everything after chapter 2? I always found that to be odd when the Japanese marketing team wasn't afraid of showing stuff up until chapter 6.

@PipeGuy64Bit I guess it's good that they kept Vivian secret, even if it's only a minor twist.

I always get these jumbled in my head. Is this the one with the bird wrestler? Also my Yoshi was never green in this game haha I'm so confused. Oh well

I hope this sells well to show higher ups what fans want. The unique takes on classic enemies was always great and then they took it all away with sticker star.

@rvcolem1 yeah rawk hawk I think his name was

@Beetlebum91 thanks! Now I can sleep at night.

@rvcolem1 your Yoshi’s color/hair style depends on how long it takes to hatch. I think there are 5 or 6 different ones, super fun to wonder who you’ll get!

@milonorth yeah I just asked jeeves to find it, haha that's why I couldn't recognize the game cause my Yoshi was black! (Kidding no one uses ask jeeves).

ebgames (australia) did me a 2 for 1 trade deal to preorder ttyd, I typically never preorder/trade at all—though I'm happy I'll get to play this for the first time!
loved spm and pm64 when I was younger, but never had the means to play this one (current PC too weak for dolphin).

Madame Flurrie's "stage presence".
Vivian being here is also kind of a spoiler for those that haven't previously experienced the game..

Looking forward to playing it again. Maybe we can get some new games?

I prefer Paper Mario 64's companions I think.

The game itself pretty much spoils Vivian by the fact her Tattle log appears in Frankly's trash can in chapter 2 while the other two's don't.

I can't wait for this game. The original is already one of the greatest games of all time for me. Looking forward to seeing how this remake holds up to that standard.

I played this game on GameCube recently and loved it, but sort of trapped myself, my only save is in the last castle without enough items or health to survive and there’s no way to warp out. Hopefully the remake includes some QoL stuff to save me from my own stupidity

Have any quality of life improvements been released yet? I’m very curious about what they changed/upgraded with this re release.

@AG_Awesome I'm curious about that too. That's the only thing stopping me from pre-ordering this game.

@Swooce @AG_Awesome Nintendo has previously said 'new features' and 'a suite of additional changes' are coming to the game, and we've seen a new character and there's even a song that wasn't in the original.

As for QoL changes, we'll likely see some, I heard something about friend hint (probably an easy way to get a Goombella tattle hint) and friend cycle (maybe a quicker way to swap partners), but I think that's based off of a JP screenshot so we can't say for sure what either mean.

I'm sure we'll see more features/QoL changes as more trailers release!

@Manguy888A

(suggestion: never consider thy self (or any self) to be "stupid")

ADRIMAK BLUEBERRY LOOKS LIKE MY NEXT FRIEND

@OctolingKing13

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@PikminMarioKirby
For me my main curiosity is how the game runs since the reveal trailer was apparently running at half the framerate of the gamecube game which if it does im curious how it would affect things like perfect guards and other timing elements.

Love the character designs and personalities of each of these characters. Here's hoping future Paper Mario games can have the same level of creativity and freedom with the designs.

@Mgalens Nintendo said this game is a remake (and it obviously is by just looking at it) so the timing is probably made to fit the 30 fps. I don't think the remake can run 60 fps because of how much is in the game graphically with all of the lighting and details they put into it, which is good with me.

@rvcolem1

"yeah I just asked jeeves to find it, haha that's why I couldn't recognize the game cause my Yoshi was black! (Kidding no one uses ask jeeves)."

"ask jeeves"?

@mario500 I am old, ask jeeves is now ask.com. It was something before Google where you could go to ask jeeves and type In a random question. "Hey jeeves who won the 1998 world series?" And it would give common search results or answers. It was an alternative to yahoo or Altavista. Still beats Compuserve...

Really do not get why they're remastering this (besides greed and easy profit with no effort since AI handles remasters in most cases). You can't make 2d paper style characters look any better. But I'm sure many mindless consumer cattle will line up to throw $60 (or they trying to push 70 nonsense again) away for what.. a handful of QoL improvements?

If the differences justify the price then I will consider it but again its Nintendo selling us a game that is 20 years old for full price...

@dodgeskill100 One, it's a full-on remake, by no means just a lazy upscaling, and two, the characters themselves have been pretty noticeably changed due to the more cardboard-like aesthetic with their different body parts overlaid on each other. Additionally the partners now have back sprites when they didn't before.

But beyond that there are the environments. I love the original game to pieces (and honestly I probably wouldn't hesitate at all to pay full price for a one-to-one port of it personally) but the backgrounds in it are kind of where it especially shows its age and looks a bit lacking in detail, and this one does do a lot to polish those up between adding more visual flare and the improved lighting. It's especially obvious in what we've seen of Keelhaul Key.

@dodgeskill100 Bait spotted

@dodgeskill100 This is not a remaster and is seemingly a ground-up remake (Nintendo confirmed that it is a remake recently)

Also look at the difference between Origami King Paper Mario and this Paper Mario, they went all out and are now made of several sprites instead of just one.

The original itself is way worth 60 (and is sold for double that price if you want the OG) but the fact that it’s also a remake and adding content (we’ve already seen some new things in the game), this is a steal for this price.

@Mario500 I recommend you don't enter a Walmart on a Saturday morning.

@tseliot

(question: why not)

@dodgeskill100 gamecube games barely got played because of how badly the cube sold compared to the Wii/Switch. This is an easy game to reintroduce to a whole new audience.

Tbh .... Kinda like how they left out pronouncing Vivian .. female or male... Wonder if that's how they will handle them. Just make them non binary... They are a shadow after all....

And you avoid the whole gender war thing going on with Vivian's fans

@Beetlebum91 Same, I am really hoping this does well so we go back to how the Paper Mario games used to be. I am just concerned with it being a remake, it might not do as well.

@ikki5 I think it will sell well, the people who liked the original release will probably pick this up, I think it's been long enough. Also, the switch has a much bigger install base than the gamecube did and when you factor in digital release, nobody will miss out if they want it.

@Beetlebum91 Yes true, I know I am picking it up and I bought the original... technically twice. lol I had to replace my gamecube and when I bought the new one, it came with the game so I had two copies.

@ikki5 I'll be getting it, I played the original right up until the last boss and just stopped playing. I enjoyed it that much that I didn't want it to end so I quit. Will see it through this time though.