overpriced? paper mario for $10 is a bargain. There may be many games not worth the money, but this isn't one of them at all.

Yeah, Paper Mario was great. I'm currently playing PM2 on the Gamecube, and SPM isn't out here yet.

But I disagree a little: In fact, I wished Nintendo had included their original Mario Jump'n'Run game mechanics. Running and jumping just doesn't feel groovy in Paper Mario. That's okay for PM1 / PM2, but with SPM, they should have done it. I was extremely hyped when I first heard of the 2D/3D flipping thing, but the videos I saw cooled it off a bit. We'll see, I was planning to get a Wii with the SPM PAL release.

Arrgh, double post... stupid browser.

 funny how my reaction was the exact opposite...  one man's meat is nother man's poison.

 - different mechanics to pull of moves is fun, but they make battles so much longer

 - i loved the super paper mario story!  

 - the text is a little much... but i really enjoyed reading the story.  i dislike the traditonal damsel in distress set-piece and found the somewhat twisted storyline of super paper mario extremely enjoyable.  towards the end, i'm actually looking forward to reading the text.  reminds me of one of those twisted short stories you read in anthologies... played out over 20 hours. 

 - paper mario is so long... way too many side quests (some people love it i'm sure)... but i got kind of sick of both side quests and battle after battle.  ended up taking me like 3-4 weeks to finish.  it also took me like 3 weeks to finish super paper mario, but it was a more enjoyable experience all the way.

i have played mario and luigi partners in time before on the DS and the mechanics (action commands in particular) in there are on a whole new level compared to paper mario, so perhaps that's why i found the battle mechanics in paper mario to be a tad tedious.  if you liked the action commands in paper mario, you would absolutely love the action commands in that DS game.

my wife plays a fair bit of rpgs, and she also like super paper mario a little more.

after finishing paper mario, i was rather eager to get thousand year door.  but then i realized that i need 1) memory stick 2) gamecube controller 3) the game itself.  probably would bite the bullet at some point, or when nintendo makes the gamecube controller unnecessary for gamecube games.

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just curious, do you guys leave Wacka alone, or do you keep going to him for Wacka Bumps until he dies? 

Yeah, it's one of my favourite games too... It has nice gameplay and a magical atmosphere which make you love this game

Yea my main complaints about Super Paper Mario were the length intro and the fact that 95% of the time when you flip into 3D there's nothing there but beacuse of that other 5% where there's hidden items and stuff you still always have to check.

Played the GC title but not the original. It will be my first VC download if I ever get around to it tho.

I agree, PM is far superior to SPM. PM is one of my favorite Mario games, while SPM is probably my least favorite non-sports/party Mario game. I still enjoyed it a lot, but it had it's shortcomings.

I really hope the next Paper game ditches the half-assed "platforming" and gets back to action-enhanced rpg gameplay.

PM:TYD>PM

But, the first one was great. Maybe I should download it. I probobly will in the future, as I'm waiting for Super Metroid right now.

honestly in your guys opinion


are those other "paper mario" games better than the original SNES Super Mario RPG made by square?

I think not.

Mario RPG is better for me, but that's just comparing one of the greatest games ever to another series that i love. 

I don't know why square doesn't make another one, they've been milking all their other franchises why don't the bring this one back?  The RPG market has developed so much more in the west since Mario RPG this one could sell so many millions.