Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2024)
The GameCube classic faithfully remade for Switch, badges, partners and all.
23 May 2024 · $59.99
About Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2024)
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2024) remakes the beloved 2004 GameCube RPG. Mario hunts the Crystal Stars with a rotating cast of partners, turn-based timing battles and the series' sharpest writing, with the Switch remake adding updated visuals, music and small quality-of-life touches.
- • Timing-based turn-based battles
- • Partner party members
- • Crystal Star chapter structure
- • Remade visuals and soundtrack
- • Badge customization system
Storyline
The Thousand-Year Door is set in the Mushroom Kingdom. The town of Rogueport serves as the hub world, connecting to all other locations in the game. The story is divided into eight chapters and a prologue, each of which primarily takes place in one of the unique areas. Each of the major locations are designed around a specific theme; Glitzville, for example, is a floating city known for its fighting arena. The enemies and town inhabitants in the game range from recurring Mario characters, like Boo, to characters exclusive to the game, such as the X-Nauts.
Gameplay
The Thousand-Year Door is a role-playing video game (RPG) with other nontraditional RPG elements. The player controls a two-dimensional version of Mario and explores a variety of worlds designed to look like paper. In these locales, he is tasked with retrieving seven Crystal Stars which involves Mario completing puzzles and defeating enemies to proceed. In the overworld, the player can find items that can be used in and outside of combat. The effects of these items range from healing Mario or his partner to damaging the opponent. Mario can also purchase "badges" from non-player characters (NPCs), find them hidden in the environment, or occasionally obtain them from defeated enemies. Each badge requires a certain amount of Mario's badge points (BP) in order to be equipped. When equipped, these badges can permanently enhance a particular skill or aspect, or, in some cases, give Mario new abilities. Throughout the game, up to seven characters are permanently added to the player's party; one character is present alongside Mario at any given time and can be switched out at any point. Each character has a specialized skill, some of which are required to solve puzzles. These skills include activating switches and removing physical barriers. Mario is also "cursed" with abilities that allow him to fold into a boat or a paper airplane; these are performed when he stands on a special "activation panel". During the interlude between the game's chapters, the player controls Peach in the X-Naut Fortress and Bowser in multiple side-scrolling levels based on the original Super Mario Bros.
- Developer
- Nintendo EPD, Intelligent Systems
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Release
- 23 May 2024
- Price
- $59.99
- Modes
- single-player
- Age rating
- E
