So we're gonna see Paper Mario Color Splash tomorrow. Does anyone still believe it wont be Sticker Star 2?

[DivinePaladin]

curl-6 said:

DivinePaladin said:

I, for one, will only buy the game used if I buy it. As a collector I'll probably buy it, but I won't support the company for making a game that is directly ignoring hundreds of thousands of peoples' feedback. And I don't think hundreds of thousands is an exaggeration, personally.  

That's an understandable compromise. Voting with your wallet is a mantra I try to adhere to also. As a non-fan I'll admit I don't quite understand they intense hatred, but I can still relate to it; I felt similarly towards games like Starfox Adventures, Wind Waker, and Federation Force, which took franchises I loved in direction I didn't.

I mean I wouldn't even call myself a massive PM fan. I loved 64, don't like the GC as a system so I don't have the ability to play TTYD, never really started SPM, and tried SS out of morbid curiosity. SS is legitimately, unequivocally a bad game. It fails as an adventure game, it bombs as an RPG, and most importantly, it's objectively not a PM game. It uses the Paper part well, to its credit, but it'd be similar to if they took CoD, made it into a Ratchet & Clank game, and expected us to like it. And even that comparison isn't apt because CoD could still function as a TPS. 

 

I just don't get the reasoning at all. I even said somewhere else that the Mario & Luigi argument misses the key difference between the two franchises: M&L is designed to be a game where you take Mario characters and throw them outward in a different universe of sorts, whereas PM is taking Mario and bringing it inward and expanding character types and tropes rather than extending the tropes to new original character/enemy types.