Vodacixi said:
How can you tell if it's a good or bad Paper Mario by just a tiny trailer? I mean, I've never played the franchise, so maybe I'm missing something. What's so bad about what they shown? |
Allow me to jump in too. All three versions of the reveal have shown a deep lack of experience points. In Japan they showed the entire battle front to end, and the winning result is coins. To battle, at least in SS, you needed stickers. In this one you need cards. Stickers ran out - it looks like Cards run out. Battling is literally pointless in SS outside of key battles.
When you take a story-driven RPG series, take out the experience points, seemingly take out any significant story, and make the actual concept of battling a chore that you try to avoid, what are you left with? Why should fans of one even consider trying the other? It isn't like they changed the name here - they WANT old fans to buy these new PM games, as if they're remotely comparable.
It doesn't matter if the game is bad anymore (hopefully it'll make battling somewhat relevant because coins were useless in SS): It's dead to the core audience. The same core audience that bought into SS hoping it'd be good, and hated it, won't be back on this one. So now the game will sell like trash, and either the series will just die off, or they MIGHT hopefully realize that there's never too much RPG on a system nowadays.
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