Super Paper Mario may not be everyones cup of tea, but its definitely something special you should check out.
Super Paper Mario is definitely a game for Mario fans and fans of causal games that don't require constant button pushing and pouring your entire train of though and attention into the screen every second of game play. Its fun, quirky, unpredictable, and most of all an awesome 1 player experience thats a different take on not only 2-d games but Mario games in general.
The story is something you would expect from a Mario game, but as you play you'll notice that it gets slightly weirder and weirder until its to the point that your questioning the sobriety of the game makers. I mean were they on mushrooms when they made this game? The end of the world is coming soon, its up to you to join forces with 3 other life saving characters that this book predicts will save the world. Later on you die but the game isent over, you go to game hell where all of the game characters that die in games go. Its very weird and well, a freaking trip if you eat some mushrooms and play through it. The end is very strong and concludes what you were trying to do the entire time.
One negative thing about this game is the need to constantly be reading reading reading reading and uh, guess what? READING! you'll read and read for quite some time. But its not mindless rambling(well not all of it) as most of the dialog is pretty funny and fun to read. One thing i am happy of this Paper Mario game is they have done away with the whole turn based thing, now its just like classic ol 2-d mario jumpin on baddies heads and running side to side.
the whole switching from 2-d to 3-d thing is pretty awesome and gives a new perspective on how you look at a level and shows how much thought went into this game.
the controls are very easy and simple, very comfortable if you will as you feel you have total control over your characters and the menus that you must navigate through to find items and look at stuff.
the graphics are simple, retro but over all very nice and smooth. I would love to see some classic SNES games re-done with these kind of graphics.
over all this game is pretty awesome and has plenty of hidden items and fun stuff to do throughout. Its a must for any Mario fan. Thats fo sho.