Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Looks Glorious In New Footage

I get everyone is excited and all but you don't have to post an article for every little clip shown. This was how it was with the Mario Movie.

It's actually a remake @JimNorman. Nintendo confirmed this through of the surveys they sent out.

I’m hoping this is going to run at 60fps.

This actually might be the best looking game on Switch!

Can't wait for this, been trying to play this game for years, but would not bow to emulation

@JimNorman You said remaster in the article, however, Nintendo recently confirmed it is a remake in a survey, just wanted to help with that!

Also if that wasn’t evidence of being a remake enough, the naming strategy is what they do with remakes, the graphics are completely remade, it looks like it runs in a new engine, fully remade soundtrack (which rarely happens in just remasters), new content, and of course the survey from Nintendo saying it is a remake.

@OctolingKing13 This, Pikmin 4, and even Metroid Prime Remastered push the limits of the console, it is very impressive!

What's this, the remake isn't going to have the same OST as the original? Where is this confirmed?

Any word on the quality of life "improvements" that will for sure be added?

@bransby Nintendo's really gone backwards on FPS since the GameCube. I played Mario Kart Double Dash at the weekend with some friends and was surprised it was 60fps even in 4 player mode. The Switch version is 30fps in anything more than 2 player.

@bransby It is an upgrade, since they went all-out on the actual detail and lighting and reflections and new content. I’d rather have all of that than have a lower-quality/lower resolution 60 FPS. Switch likely can’t handle 60 fps with how technically impressive this game is. It’s also less than half the price as a used version of the original pretty much, so this is well worth getting.

@bransby Don't buy it then, problem solved! Nice and easy, and on top of that money to spend elsewhere on something you want, win win...

Everyone is so freakin' obsessed with high framerate these days...sighs

I never played TTYD but heard it is good... Add this to the backlog/wishlist

TIL that the Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door remake is clearly a genre switch to a combo first person shooter and shmup. Why else would a baseline 60 FPS be so darn important? Ready the Goombas! Do a pipe roll! Mario? Bro? Brrrrrrrooooooo!

@Joeynator3000 You don't realise how important those precious precious frames are to ultra high reflex based genres like turn-based RPGs. Yes you can go and put a pizza on and drop the kids off at the pool between goes, but It's hyper critical.

I've only played this for a few hours on an emulator, so I'm stoked that it's being remade. Sounds like it was definitely the series high point.

@ClickBrick If only there was some way you could... just not read the article?

@ClickBrick I think this Nintendo site might like their Mario.
But really, for someone like me, that doesn't do a lot of YouTube or any social media, articles like this are nice.

@Joeynator3000 Because it's 2024 and it's a bit ridiculous to have a worse framerate on a remake of a 20 year old game.

Smoother gameplay is more important than slightly fancier graphics. There's a reason most gamers pick Performance mode over Quality on the consoles that other both options.

@Joeynator3000 It's the only thing people CAN complain about it because everything else is so good. Some people just want to be negative, I guess. Personally in the recent trailers I couldn't tell if it was 30 or 60. It looks so AMAZINGLY smooth to be 30fps, and if it is then good job to them. I don't really care about framerate, as long as it's not extremely choppy/inconsistent. Like movies are around 24fps usually, 30fps is BETTER than that, and still ends up looking really smooth.

@Clyde_Radcliffe I think majority of people would take these over-the-top gorgeous graphics with 30fps than a port/remaster with 60 fps. It especially doesn't matter in a turn-based RPG. I can't tell the difference in the recent trailers if it's 30 or 60, it just looks so smooth!

@Joeynator3000 hopefully switch 2 will negate frame rate issues many switch 1 games have,.

I care about smooth framerate, not high framerate. 30fps is fine as long as it's not choppy or laggy, people act like 30fps is unplayable, yet I'm over here having a blast with both Monster Hunter games on Switch and they're both action games that require timing...and they're both 30fps.

@WiltonRoots you must have not played the original, but there is no such thing as "ultra high speed reflex" on this game's combat 😂 the action command window is very comfortable, combat is easy and relys more on strategy than reflex.
I keep getting amazed by how incredible the game looks!

@Joeynator3000 @PikminMarioKirby If the original can run at 60 I don't see why the remake can't either. Plus, it will mess with the timing of super guard and the other action commands. Not prioritizing the framerate in a game where timed attacks are everything seems very backwards to me. Having half the framerate that the 20 year old original has would be a real bummer if it ends up being part of the final game. 60 FPS looks better and feels more responsive. Anything you're used to will be laggy instead.

@AlexanderDaniels

It is an upgrade, since they went all-out on the actual detail and lighting and reflections and new content. I’d rather have all of that than have a lower-quality/lower resolution 60 FPS. Switch likely can’t handle 60 fps with how technically impressive this game is. It’s also less than half the price as a used version of the original pretty much, so this is well worth getting.

It's a full remake they are going to make new timing, obviously. I also saw somewhere that the visuals may be 30 but timing could still be technically detected in 60fps (behind the scenes)

i'm hoping for extras or added content. i don't mind re-releases, it's great for those who doesn't have the game. But i'm not gonna buy this game again unless they give us something new, like kirby's return to dreamland deluxe or mario 3d world bowsers fury (both great re-releases)

Looks great. Can't wait for this next month.

@Clyde_Radcliffe People keep bringing up the "20 year old game" line, but that's completely irrelevant when the game has been completely remade for Switch, which makes it just another Switch game that runs at 30 frames per second.

Can’t wait to replay this!

@Gaymer90 i posted in jest, me personally? Really looking forward to this, see if it lives up to the hype…👍🏻 So far it’s looking great!

@PikminMarioKirby

Yeah.. I think not. Clyde was right in this though, FPS is far more important than slightly sharper graphics. There IS a major difference if this remake really does run slower than its original..

@Maubari

slightly sharper graphics

That is a huge understatement. See any comparison and it looks insane how much has changed and how well they’ve redone it. This won’t necessarily be slower, it’ll just have less frames. This will still have more frames than majority of movies, and this is turn based. With these trailers, they look super smooth, so I can’t even tell that they are 30fps or not. People don’t look at how it looks, but just look at the number and get angry. It runs amazingly smooth, especially if you watch the Yoshi trailer/this one, I can’t tell if it’s 60fps or 30fps just by watching it…

The thing about the frame rate situation is that every showing of this Switch version has been 30fps with the exception of one scene in the September Direct which ran at 60fps.

I would love to play this given that it‘s universally praised but unfortunately RPGs are not my thing. Super Paper Mario was fantastic but that was as we all know more like a storydriven platformer or puzzle solving game.

@PikminMarioKirby If you saw 30fps and 60fps Paper Mario side by side, you would absolutely be able to tell which was which. One would look smoother and more fluid.

Getting half the frames of animation a second matters. It would matter for any motion medium- movies, anime. If they're making that sacrifice to squeeze in a few more shaders and particle effects in a game with 2D characters, that's prioritizing the wrong things IMO.

@ClickBrick

To each their own, but I enjoy all these articles and click to view every time