Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Designed by Intelligent Systems
Developed by Nintendo
Rated E for Everyone
1 Player; 17 Blocks

Well all loved the N64 version, but how well does the 'Cube version go? Well, it's a lot better, from having sharper images and better sound effects, you can expect a lot from this game.

Mario gets a letter from Princess Peach to meet her at Rougeport, a port town filled with thugs and rouges, hence the name. You meet a female Goomba, Goombella, being bullied by a Robotnik wannabe. You kick his ass and Goombella teams up with you, serving the same purpose as Goombario from the original. You'll find yourself caught up in a legendary tale and hope to set things right with the map Peach sent you with the letter.

You'll meet new friends as you traverse through the pipe system to get to your locations; no more going along long pathways! Koops, the equivalent of Kooper, is a shy Koopa that wants to save his dad from the dreaded dragon Hooktail. Flurrie, an original character that blows away hidden passages, wants to go on your journey and make a play out of it. A baby Yoshi (whom you name), the equivalent of both Lakilester AND Parakarry, assists you in defeating a twin pair of Clefts with an infinite Defense! Vivian, the equivalent of Bow, helps you get your identity back from the Duplighost Doopliss. Bobbery, the equivalent of Bombette, assists you on a journey to an island with a treasure deep inside. Ms. Mowz, an optional character that can sniff out hidden items and flippable panels, is the equivalent to Watt.

Using your papery form to its fullest, you transform into a plane, boat, tube, and thin strip of paper to fly, swim, go under stuff, and in between bars. There's numerous possibilities for you to explore using these functions!

Of course, with friends, you meet enemies as well. The X-Nauts, an unknown race bent on world domination, is led by the evil Grodus, who wants Mario dead! You'll also meet Lord Krump on your journies as well, fighting his cardboard robot Magnus Von Grapple. You'll also take on the dragon Hooktail and the power hungry Grubba. There's numerous enemies to fight as this adventure awaits you.

The music and sounds are great as well. While some themes are remixed versions of the old school ones, there's new themes, including the battle with Rawk Hawk, Smorg, and even Bowser himself!

This adventure of dragon slaying, train-top fighting, and identity thefts is a great one and worth the money (and 17 Blocks of Memory it takes up!!!)!

95/100


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Hey, how's it going?

Can you save your own images and upload them to the Image Gallery to use for your reviews its not best using images from other places. Also they cant be any bigger length wise then 555 or it wil mess up tables on the main site.

Still nice review, I havnt actualy got this game shocking that it is, since sales etc are on and this is a oldish game I hopefuly will be able to get it cheap 2nd hand or even new Will post again my views if I do get this game.

What do you mean by saving my own images? Like with a digi cam or Imageshacking it?

This is the best game ever.

!! A bit of a spoiler !!

The best part about this game, in my opinion, is how you battle. When you enter a battle, you'll know it because a red curtain comes down and rises to reveal a theater stage with scenery in the background which could fall down on you if you shake the stage too much with your items or hammer. Also, weights could fall on you (talk about random). The audience watching your battle will occasionally throw items to you. Enemies in the audience will throw things at you from rocks to bones to soda cans, which will inflict damage. Before they do, you press the X button to go into the audience and hit them (LOL)!

There you go. A little sneak peek.

I also have to still buy this.. Each time when I wanted to buy the game it wasn't in the stores and/or I spented it already on something else. However I'm still planning on buying it ^^

EDIT: I bought the game a few days ago... And it's very good! I like it so much. Everything about it is great! Now to collect some money for Mario and Lugi: Partners in time on the DS ^^ The mario RPG's are so good!

This post has been edited by crazyboychris: Feb 28 2006, 09:20 AM

I need to get this game

EDIT DAKURA:- Please do not quote the first post in every topic you post in, especially when you say so little in response. Quote removed.

This post has been edited by Dakura Deoman: Aug 15 2006, 06:19 AM

Great RPG game, love mario games

I have played the first one and looking forward to starting the second sequel.

Great ^^ Another fan ^^

The mario RPG games are realy a great series of games. I don't understand why so many people don't like them at least on the other side a lot of people do like them ^^

That's good news, because they are realy good games. and funny ones not to forget XD