I think we were fine as a whole with the original battle system. And the story is one of the most important parts of an RPG, in my opinion. Even Super Paper Mario, which took away the RPG style in the first place, was still fairly decent because it had trumped all the others storywise. But things are different now, sadly, because it seems that these guys just took and took until we had nothing left!
At first, we could've tried to shrug this off and assume that Paper Mario is like a really slow series that is in a phase of "innovating and spinoffs". But where it fails is that:
1. Paper Mario is already a spinoff series. 2. We literally have all the proof that something has been very wrong with the handling of this franchise for a decade (or longer).
Nothing will change if we sit still and blindly accept it. I, for one, enjoyed the Origami King battle system and story very much.
But as a fan of Super Mario RPG and Paper Mario 64/TTYD, it was sincerely painful to hear these words that are trying to confirm that we are being forced to say goodbye to the Paper Mario that we once knew and loved. Seeing that Alpha Dream had gone bankrupt after 2 laughable M&L remakes, and that Geno's cameo had been removed from the Superstar Saga remake, what does that leave us with?
Even less hope than before. It's like your hopes and dreams are sitting on a shelf right in front of you, and you just can't reach it.
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Re: Paper Mario Producer Says "It's A Necessity" To Change The Combat System In Every Entry
I think we were fine as a whole with the original battle system. And the story is one of the most important parts of an RPG, in my opinion. Even Super Paper Mario, which took away the RPG style in the first place, was still fairly decent because it had trumped all the others storywise. But things are different now, sadly, because it seems that these guys just took and took until we had nothing left!
At first, we could've tried to shrug this off and assume that Paper Mario is like a really slow series that is in a phase of "innovating and spinoffs". But where it fails is that:
1. Paper Mario is already a spinoff series.
2. We literally have all the proof that something has been very wrong with the handling of this franchise for a decade (or longer).
Nothing will change if we sit still and blindly accept it. I, for one, enjoyed the Origami King battle system and story very much.
But as a fan of Super Mario RPG and Paper Mario 64/TTYD, it was sincerely painful to hear these words that are trying to confirm that we are being forced to say goodbye to the Paper Mario that we once knew and loved. Seeing that Alpha Dream had gone bankrupt after 2 laughable M&L remakes, and that Geno's cameo had been removed from the Superstar Saga remake, what does that leave us with?
Even less hope than before. It's like your hopes and dreams are sitting on a shelf right in front of you, and you just can't reach it.