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Rumor: 2D Metroid and traditional Paper Mario releasing in 2020
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I'd even be okay if they just ported over Samus Returns 3DS over to the Switch. I really liked that game but playing it after owning a Switch was rough. That game really needed to be on the Switch.
I've been dreaming of both of these types of games for YEARS for a console release. Please be true.
I never did play color splash so that'll get ported with thousand year door for double the paper Mario 😎
I found samus returns ugly af so I hope it doesn't look like that
I found samus returns ugly af so I hope it doesn't look like that
Metroid Fusion rumor: Fuck yeah, 2D Metroid is pretty much always fun as hell.
Paper Mario rumor: I think that I would give this series another try on Switch. I remember when it came out way back on 64, I was disappointed in it and saw it as lesser than SMRPG, which is still one of my favorite games ever. I barely touched TTYD before peacing out. I did love M&L though, so maybe enough time had passed and I can appreciate a Paper Mario remake now.
Paper Mario rumor: I think that I would give this series another try on Switch. I remember when it came out way back on 64, I was disappointed in it and saw it as lesser than SMRPG, which is still one of my favorite games ever. I barely touched TTYD before peacing out. I did love M&L though, so maybe enough time had passed and I can appreciate a Paper Mario remake now.
I hate so much that we live in a reality where one could technically argue that the "traditional" Paper Mario is the bullshit we got the last three games instead of the first two just going by the number of games released. It's just the worst that it's been nearly 16 years since TTYD and we're still begging for a true sequel.
There was no way Nintendo had any expectations at all for a game launching late 2016 on Wii U, let alone deciding a franchises future on it.
... Except maybe for Star fox. Let me amend that to deciding an otherwise fairly successful franchises future on it.
Colour Splash was a good game, with clever writing and gorgeous visuals.
I could cry I've been asking for a traditional paper mario for so long and if it happens i'd be so excited hfdjaghfdakjfklsah
It doesn't really matter, until they scrap the weird sticker battle systems and either do something significantly different, or go back to a more traditional RPG, the quality of the other stuff isn't going to pull very many back.
There's only so much you can do when the core game part of the game is fundamentally mediocre, at best.
Hence my "is a good game" bit; I don't believe the combat system was mediocre at all.
I would be pretty emotional too. PM is definately one of my favorite series. I just love the whacky characters, storylines and unique places in that franchise. I hope we get a good story in the next one again, like TTYD and SPM. Throw that crazy stuff at me, I'm not interested in another Bowser does X and Y lol
I've been waiting more than 15 years for a third Paper Mario game and I'd honestly started to give up hope. I really hope this is true.
Don't play with my heart. A new Paper Mario (like the good old days), would be a dream come true.
Well, you're in an extreme minority there. It was the number one complaint in both reviews and from the wider public, and it sure as heck stopped me getting very far in it at all.
Here's hoping my constant demand for a new Paper Mario or remaster of TTYD will finally pay off now.
Yes. Last February's direct announced all of Nintendo's first party retail games through September. Luigi's Mansion 3 was already a known and was dated for October later. I expect 2D Metroid and Paper Mario to release by October the latest so if they follow last years template both could be announced here. I would say at least one will for sure.
What's the chance of Paper Mario style being added to SMM2 if Paper Mario is indeed a thing for Switch?
My initial reaction is that I'd rather see another 2D Metroid than a Prime. But then I think of games like Prey & Alien Isolation & what they're able to do with first person environments, and wonder why Nintendo hasn't ever innovated along those lines. If this rumour is true, I just hope they come up with a better art style than Samus Returns, something that lives up to the brilliant 16-bit spritework of Super/Zero Mission/Fusion.
Color Splash was still shit even if it improved upon Sticker Star's formula. The battle system is horrible and still fundamentally pointless, overworld system is bad, lack of previously long standing RPG mechanics is bad, etc. The writing is better than the literally nonexistent writing in SS, but it relies on a bunch of self-referential 4th wall breaking humor for most of its jokes. The writing in the original games was a lot more clever and didn't rely solely on humor.
The aesthetic was fine for what they wanted to accomplish, but I still vastly prefer the original artstye. The arts & crafts look was a bit too literal and every character having a literal white border around them was obnoxious.
Not bad. Not bad. Partners could be the baby Metroid, Little Birdie, that weird tiny Kraid, one of Draygon's kids, and the animals from Super Metroid.
You aren't wrong. People always think its a top selling series when it isn't and they believe that Nintendo is dumb for not spamming it out biyearly. Not saying it won't change but right now its not a guaranteed system seller.
I'll definitely buy Prime though.
> No one is forced to buy this game.
Thank you. This comment always saves me so much time and money. People like me never know that its an option until someone reminds us or gives us permission to not do it. Thank you.
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Of course I don't have to buy it. I can still believe and say that Nintendo is kind of a scummy company because of stuff like this.