03-09-2014, 06:14 PM
Personally, my favorite of the current two Mario RPG series is the Paper Mario series, but that doesn't stop me from saying that the latest installment is an embarrassment to the series. Besides all the things you have mentioned, Yoshbert, I think the game took the paper concept too literally. While it does lead to nice paper craft visuals, it gets very frustrating after awhile when the characters keep insisting that they are made of paper and keep discussing the problems and quirks about being paper again and again. Plus, just seeing how they act like they very seen real objects before just makes me want to bang my head.
I'm not saying that what they are doing is wrong, but if they keep stating over and over again that its a paper world and flip out over something like a normal fan, then it just breaks the fourth wall for me in a way that isn't as charming as previous fourth wall fractures in other games (i.e. doing it receptively). If this was the first game in the series, I would forgive that, but if you look at the other Paper Mario games, they never took it this far (even in the second game where things became more paper like).
I'm not saying that what they are doing is wrong, but if they keep stating over and over again that its a paper world and flip out over something like a normal fan, then it just breaks the fourth wall for me in a way that isn't as charming as previous fourth wall fractures in other games (i.e. doing it receptively). If this was the first game in the series, I would forgive that, but if you look at the other Paper Mario games, they never took it this far (even in the second game where things became more paper like).