Color Splash Producer Discusses Why Paper Mario Moved Away From RPG Elements

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Goodnightmoon said:

AZWification said:

    
      " Tabata: The old Paper Mario games, they were obviously RPGs and had a lot of good elements, but they weren't just about the  RPG elements. They were full of solving puzzles, solving mysteries, the color factor, the visual style. For the Paper Mario series, we're focusing more on those elements- the puzzle solving."

This is true and it does makes sense, I don't know why some people are convinced that an action-adventure-puzzle game cannot work without being a purist rpg.

But that's not the issue. The real issue is changing the games design. It would be like making a CSI show. But it focuses on figuring out murders, for elephants only. The elephants talk. The cast are elephants. It's still a CSI. But no more humans. Everyone should like that change? Changing whatever, to something else, rarley works out. Because the fans of the series, like the series for what is was. Final Fantasy 13 gets all that hate, for this problem.