Topic: Paper Mario: Color Splash - OT

With the title called "Color Splash", I expect some references to Splatoon in this game.

Also, wasn't there gameplay shown in the JP direct?

Just a reminder to all that Super Paper Mario was an RPG too. It's just an action-RPG.

What makes a game a platformer is the greatest challenge being jumping. Not only does Super Paper Mario deal miniscule damage for falling, there are basically nothing hidden that requires challenging jumping techniques.

It could be a just be a bad trailer for a good game, but is it not bizarre to you that the art design is IDENTICAL to Sticker Star? All the Paper Mario games are well, paper, but PM, PM:TTYD, and SPM each have their own unique art design elements.

Made an account just to express my disappointment in this game. Incredibly disappointed Nintendo did not listen to fan feedback about how Sticker Star went in the wrong direction with the lack of partners and no traditional leveling up by getting XP from enemies. Will not buy Color Splash. Hope it fails and maybe Nintendo finally begins listening to the fans of the series since Paper Mario 64.

@Demifiend:
Making an account for just that was totally worth it.I really want to like these new Mario RPG´s but I just can´t. The only thing I enjoyed in M&L Paper Jam was the great battle system. We need more than that, it's AN RPG. Like those awesome characters back in TTYD or the story of Super Paper Mario (apart from a few set pieces the gameplay was boring but the story was the best on in a Mario game so far). Or all those different locations we got to visit. Now it's just Toads and we get to visit the same grassy plains and desert for the rest of our lives.

Some people want to make Youtu great again. But what do I want? #Make_PapermarioGreat_Again

Or you could just grow up and wait until you know little more about the game? You're basing your purchase decision on a Nintendo reveal trailer?

Good thing this wasn't a E3 reveal as it would've went down bad again.

Everything I saw looked Great! I guess I don't expect the world from these game release trailers anymore.

They really need to make a much better job with the next trailer to impress me enough to buy it. So far it looks disappointing and doesn't have the charm of TTYD. Next trailer needs less Toads, more original characters and really show how the battle system works (is it as boring as in Sticker Star).

Unless it's a new IP (like Splatoon), many of their reveals are like this - they are "meh" and shows very little new things or things to be excited about. Super Mario 3D World, TP:HD, Star Fox Zero, Mario Maker all worked like that. Around a month before release, there will be enough info available to judge the final product.

It's the most clear with TP:HD, where proofs (such as https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-garrett-5328564a) now seems to show that the game was completed at the time of the initial reveal. And yet, Nintendo showed the most "meh" footage they could find.

Wasn't it just #MakePaperMarioGreatAgain? Ah well, the hashtag is hilarious.

I think this has gotten a bit silly now. I'm not excited for this game either, not many are it seems, but I just cringe at that hashtag picture. Good luck in your campaign and hoping that the game fails, whatever helps you all sleep at night I guess.

Yes, the trailer and the name of the game tell a lot about this game. It is not a a true TTYD successor. Maybe it will be a good or even a great game but I am sure it won't be a classical Paper Mario game.

I kinda wished that Sticker Star would have been a new IP with new characters and Paper Mario would have continued with the old formula. Because, you know it worked much better. Super Paper Mario was an... interesting side game, but after that it should have been like TTYD, just better.

ALRIGHT! I'm just going to look at the positives:
-I still have the first three games. Sticker Star may have been bad, and this look to be much of the same, but neither of these games will cause the first three to suddenly stop existing.
-The game at least looks beautiful. I'll give them that.
-Maybe NOW they'll actually listen to criticism? I mean, they noticed the backlash that Federation Force got, so maybe they'll notice this game's backlash?

Did they change anything major in Federation Force based on that backlash? For a game that has been developed for such a long time, and then releasing less than a year after the first reveal, it sounds unlikely.

@jariw: Doesn't look like it, seems more that they're trying to use the fact of development starting before Other M released as a way for this spinoff to be respected (the backlash wouldn't have been anywhere near as bad if it was released in the late DS/early 3DS era).

I was actually thinking that they actually take it into consideration with the next game...why do I get the feeling that's not gonna happen?

In my opinion the trailer was explicit. Like in Paper Jam case.
Nintendo did show us what they wanted to show us, and Sticker Star-based gameplay is evident. I don't think they would have shown us the Card-based battle system with coins as only prize for winning, the Things, the world map, the Bowser sticker (Koopa is written on it in the trailers, which is the romanization of Bowser's japanese name), the identical red Toads coming out of the house and the tattler being a bucket and pretty much the only partner for a good part of the adventure, since nobody else follows Mario even when he has 180 max amount of colors, if they just wanted to show this as just a new Paper Mario and not a sequel to Sticker Star.
They also showed differences: color-based mechanics both due to the Paint Hammer and in battle, Cards replacing Stickers, a new setting, Peach that isn't kidnapped at the beginning of the game (in the Japanese trailer you an even see that she's there after a Toad is becoming colorless due to a Shy Guy with a straw) and Bowser not showing up as well. And the stages aren't being introduced as World 1-1, World 1-2 and so on, suggesting a more open approach.
So I would say that a proper comparison would be the Paper Jam trailers, where all the important elements were revealed in the announcement, and then only other interesting details were revealed (in this case, it is very likely that the reveals will involve the settings, the story and the characters, including the role that the announced paper Koopalings will have in the game, plus the enemy Cards like the Shy Guy Cards might also suggest a new underlying mechanic).
Mind you, we know nothing about whether the game will be good or not, this is something we cannot evaluate from trailers.

@Mister_Wu: The way the game was introduced was kinda weird. Like as if it's just to say "Here's a new PM and here's what we're thinking." In other words, it still looks like it's early in development stages. The final product should be more more exciting, less odd (than what was shown), and more focused.
So yeah, I'm not going to judge based on whatever you would call the PM segment in the Direct. I'll be keeping my eye out for this game, but I just pray my hopes don't get dashed.

I'm pretty sure the orginal Wii U Paper Mario leak said it was in the advance stages to the point localising was already taking place.