Nintendo has said that they shifted Paper Mario away from traditional RPG because Mario and Luigi filled that niche. With Alpha Dream out of business it seems less likely there will be another Mario and Luigi game, which is just as well, because while I love that franchise it was running out of steam anyway. That seems to indicate that Nintendo would be likely to return to classic style Paper Mario.
I would say that this remakes is a good sign that they will be getting back to that, and maybe they are doing this as a prelude to a sequel on Switch 2... the only thing is that they're also remaking Mario RPG. So... maybe they would be more likely to use that as the RPG branch and keep Paper as a more spinoffy title? Personally, I like the Paper Mario RPGs better, but the Mario RPG series is probably more marketable, and you can still make Oragami King style Paper games.
| Chrkeller said: Personally I thought Origami was the best paper mario to date. Amazing boss fights. |
I think Oragami King was really underrated. Genuinely made me laugh many times, and the battles were fun. But, I like the RPG gameplay better. I like games with a sense of progression and there's not much of this here. Also not really much strategy involved the battles. It's basically a puzzle game masquerading as an RPG. Which isn't necessarily bad, but I'd rather have an RPG.
