Mario & Luigi: Paper Bros.

Mario & Luigi: Paper Bros. is a role-playing game developed by Good-Feel and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. Released on July 17th, 2026, it is the third remake in the Mario & Luigi series and the ninth overall installment following Mario & Luigi: Brothership. As an enhanced remake of the 2015 Nintendo 3DS title, Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam, the game predominantly uses the game engine from the Nintendo 3DS version, along with the same sprites and models with higher quality textures and screen resolution, causing it to resemble an upscale. The game also makes various tweaks to the game's story structure and gameplay.
==List of Changes==
===General===
*The game's dialogue is based primarily off a translation of the Japanese script from the original game where there are no jabs at the usual tropes in a Super Mario game and there is a bigger focus on commenting on what is happening within the scenes themselves.
*The locations within the iteration of the Mushroom Kingdom that the game is set in, have names that reflect the theme of doubleness. Originally done with two of the locations in the original game, Mario & Luigi: Paper Bros. uses names roughly based off of the Japanese localisation for the remaining three locations. The name of Bowser's Castle also doesn't change after it is levitated into the sky.
*There are more characters from the previous Mario & Luigi games who get added where the story calls for it, the same applies for some characters from four of the Paper Mario games. Sometimes they replace specific characters that have to be talked to when it comes to side quests, with their designs being a way to help players with knowing who they have to talk to. 
*The aspect of 2D environments and 3D environments comes in very early as the paper characters aren't the only things that are shot out from the book. 
*Starlow does not appear in the story. Her role has been taken by Paper Luigi, who now acts as a tutorial master and "Mr. Exposition" for the trio when needed and has far more humorous quirks, compared to Starlow.
*Paper Kamek is replaced in the story by Kammy Koopa, as she is established as the paper equivalent to Kamek. Her relationship with Kamek is also a lot less bitter than Kamek's relationship with Paper Kamek, with her being a motherly figure to him. 
*Any mention of amiibo cards/functionality has been removed.
*The paper sound effects are slightly softer and quieter, to make them less grating/in-your-face. Specifically, there's less of a "crinkling" sound and more of a "page turning" one.
===Overworld===
*Save Blocks appear alongside HP blocks as an important indication that something is going to happen.
*Dashing is slightly mitigated. When the character icons are on the Hammer section, they can dash without jumping first.
*With the exception of Trio and Duo hammer, field Trio moves don't take up their own command pages. Instead, they share a page together, and can be activated with one button. Therefore, the command pages are as follows, going Mario-Luigi-Paper Mario:
**PAGE 1: Jump, Jump, Jump
**PAGE 2: Hammer, Double Hammer, Trio Hammer
**PAGE 3: Trio Reach, Trio Drill, Trio Airplane
*Paper Luigi follows behind Mario, Luigi and Paper Mario at all times, copying Paper Mario's movements.
*The brothers are spaced out from each other.
*As well as the name changes to three of the locations, a new overworld has been added to the Mushroom Kingdom. This overworld is set above the clouds and it is called Clouderfeit Nine. Located in the clouds above the Mushroom Kingdom and accessible after arriving back in Paira Plains, the path to the clouds is a yellow cardboard trampoline with black spots. Clouderfeit Nine as a separate overworld is home to a family of Lakitus and Parakoopas who live in harmony with one another and it is where the trio can meet the CEO of the Lakitu Info Centers, who runs a gear shop that the trio can buy rare gear from. They can also access the Arcade from the overworld as well as fast travel to different parts of the locations in the Mushroom Kingdom, such as the top of the summit in Mount Mimity and the left side of Foldtwo Forest. 
=== Battle System ===
* Due to the lack of a dual screen, the Battle Card interface has been mapped to only showing up when the player presses the X button. 
* Expert Challenges have been removed.
* Paper Luigi is added as a CPU partner who attacks a random enemy in the field after the three characters have taken their turn. If Paper Mario is knocked out, Paper Luigi will carry him off screen and take over for him, trying to copy his attack pattern. He can also be healed by any of the brothers if he takes damage. 
* The list of Bros. Attacks is shared between Mario and Luigi, with two of them being omitted in favour of two old ones. 
** 3D Red Shell (Location: Peach's Castle)
** 3D Green Shell (Location: Peach's Castle)
** Fire Flower (Location: Doop Doop Dunes)
** Drill Shell (Location: Doop Doop Dunes)
** Rocket Blast (Location: Doop Doop Dunes)
** Pocket Chomp (Location: Foldtwo Forest)
** Cannonball Chuck (Location: Doop Doop Dunes)
** Balloon Blast (Location: Foldtwo Forest)
** Toad Trail (Location: Mount Mimity)
** Mega Twonk (Location: Bowser's Castle)
*Players can now select which stats to upgrade after levelling up. 
*As well as Paper Luigi being a CPU controlled partner, six characters join the trio and can be utilized by Paper Luigi in battle. These characters are the Crinkle Goomba, Vivian, Captain T. Ode, Prince Mush, Parakarry and Goombella and they can be used by Paper Luigi to shake up how the battle will turn out in the favour of the trio. Similar to the audience from Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, their input is random but can become more than common, based on how well Mario, Luigi, and Paper Mario pull off their attacks.
=== Story ===
* Though there are still paper comments in the early game, they’re cut down significantly later on for more actual characterization. Several lines of dialogue are also rewritten to reflect this change.
* The end of the second act plays out much differently. As a result, the events that happened after the second act break, play out in a different fashion, with the trek back to the castle being rewritten as two separate side quests that allow Mario and Luigi to unlock the same Bros. Attacks.
== Level, Event, Character and Dialogue Changes ==
=== Peach's Castle (Prologue) ===
* Toadsworth accompanies Luigi in the attic, and is the first to notice the book, remembering that he and an old friend from an art college wrote it together.
* Paper Luigi accompanies Mario, Princess Peach and the group of Toads in the throne room and does a mirror dance with Luigi when he sees him for the first time.
* Toadsworth accompanies Toadette as she shows off her mini Papercraft to the brothers. Commenting:
** "Now now dear, you're not at that level yet, but practise will make it better."
=== Paira Plains Entrance (Prologue) ===
* The Crinkle Goomba is given his crease after he attempts to manhandle Paper Luigi, with Mario and Luigi deciding to fold him into a paper airplane as a response. 
* The Gate to Princess Peach's Castle is painted pink.
=== Paira Plains Toad Village ===
* The Delivery Toad and the Green Toad who tells the trio about him both support a mustache and wear a tracksuit and a workplace uniform respectively, with the Green Toad stating that he's a regular customer of the Toad. 
* The Quiz Toad supports a mustache, a plump body and a yellow baseball cap.
=== Doop Doop Dunes ===
* Paper Stingbys patrol the desert along with the two types of Spinies, the Sandmaarghs and the Paper Bob-ombs. 
* When Kammy Koopa appears alongside Kamek to cause trouble for the trio, she comments:
** "Well well well, looks like the red and green wasps have found themselves two playmates. Too bad that mine is much more capable of hard work than any of you will ever been, ehehehehehehe!" 
=== Doop Doop Dunes Toad Village ===
* Some Brocks are seen in the village walking around. 
* The Quiz Toad wears swimming togs and his skin is sunburnt from swimming in the river leading to the sea.
=== Twinsy Tropics Dungeon ===
* As well as the Toads who have been slaved laboured to hauling the ore to Bowser's Castle, some Yoshis can be seen in the prison cells as well along with Kanchō Kinopio, Senchō Kinopio and Zess T..
=== Twinsy Tropics ===
* The Quiz Toad who is looking out at the sea outside of the village is replaced with Dr. Toadley. 
=== Twinsy Tropics Toad Village ===
* Sencho Kinopio replaces the Paper Toad who laments at the dock about wanting to travel beyond the horizon. 
=== Paira Plains (second visit) ===
* Alongside Paper Bob-ombs and Monty Moles, Pidgits and Coconutters patrol the area.
* The boat is kept at the dock and can be used as a means of transport to get back to Twinsy Tropics. 
=== Peach's Castle (second visit) ===
* Upon arriving at the castle, Paper Mario reunites with Vivian whose happy to see him after so many years. She tells him what's been happening recently:
** "It's funny actually, I said to myself that I was going to be more open with my sisters and accept their apology. Suddenly a week later, they're gone, I think back on it now and I still think that I left that house too early in my opinion. Yet at the same time, I remember feeling free. I didn't expect it to come to this either but the truth is, Mario.....I've loved you.....the amount of respect you treated me and the others with, how kind you were....I never had the confidence to tell you when I had the chance, but it's out there now I guess."
=== Foldtwo Forest right entrance ===
* The fight with Paper Petey Piranha is removed.
=== Foldtwo Forest ===
* The forest is now home to a group of Yoshis and Paper Yoshis who alert the trio that Kammy and Kamek have been causing trouble for the groundskeeper of the forest.
* Elasto-Piranhas and Gnarantulas patrol the forest along with Spear Guys, Fire Piranhas and the two types of Ninjis. 
* After the Wiggler transforms into a Flutter, the trio can talk to Koopa the Quick who tells them that the left side of the forest has been contaminated by a large number of Boos and Ghoul Guys and that someone should be doing some ghost busting. He tells them that he is a good friend of the Wiggler and that he'll be glad to help the brothers out. He pulls out a remote control and as a presses it, a bridge leading to the left side of the forest, forms in Paira Plains. 
** Following this, the trio can take on the mission of clearing the source of the forest, which is King Boo.
=== Mount Mimity ===
* Handfakes and Clefts patrol the mountains along with the two types of Buzzy Beetles and Bullies.
* The trio can enter Bowser's Villa via the trio drill and explore the villa. 
** The interior of the villa is full of expensive furniture. It includes a small kitchen, a stairway up to the roof and a ! Block in the foyer. Hitting the ! Block spawns a warp pipe in the kitchen, which the trio can use to access a dungeon called the "Pit of 100" trials. Created by Bowser as a test of strength, and recently upgraded by Paper Bowser, the pit is full of shinny variants of Paper enemies. Some of which the trio have fought, others are exclusive to the pit. Reaching the 100th floor, the trio can take on Eyerok.
=== Mount Mimity Toad Village ===
* The village is called Hollijolli Village and the Toads in the village wear outfits that resemble Elves from the North Pole, with the mayor of the village wearing an outfit similar to Santa Claus/Father Christmas. 
* There is a Lakitu with a Red Shell and no cloud waiting outside of the Lakitu Info Center in the village. When the trio talks to him he tells them that he can help them out with "cleaning some clocks" on the summit of the mountain. Selecting "Yes", the Lakitu will call his cloud over to take the brothers up to the clouds near the summit and face off against King Bob-omb. 
=== Mount Mimity Exit ===
* The scene with Mario and Paper Mario comparing their skillset plays out differently thanks to the inclusion of Paper Luigi:
** Paper Luigi and Luigi both have their heads lodged into the snow when Mario and Paper Mario compare their skillset. Mario expresses his disappointment about not being able to do the same things that his counterpart can do, Paper Mario puts his hand on his shoulder as a gesture of encouragement to stick to what he knows
* The Medallion quiz is removed when Paper Luigi remembers by himself where the medallion is supposed to be.
=== Doop Doop Dunes (second visit) ===
* Green Pokeys, Boom Guys and Skellokies patrol the desert along with the two types of Spikes and regular Pokeys. 
* The Toad in the village who the trio can talk to about chasing Nabbit is replaced with Broque Monsieur.
* Since Starlow is not in the game and Paper Luigi doesn't take up any residence in Mario's pockets, the Crinkle Goomba's only line of dialogue after he does so is "I better not get pins and needles in here".
* The Chargin' Chucks boss has been altered to include a Boss Sumo Bro as the boss of the chucks as he is carried by them. When he sees the trio he yells out:
** "You chowda heads thought you could sneak out of juvey when I was gone for a docta's appointment? WELL NOT ON MY WATCH CHUCK!" 
** During the fight he is suspended in the air via a thunder cloud above the Chargin' Chucks, which he can use to zap them in order to increase their POW. 
=== Twinsy Tropics Dungeon (second visit) ===
* The Crinkle Goomba doesn't betray the trio and he decides to stay with them for a while. The minigame with the Jail Wardens has been removed as a result.
** Some new dialogue reflects this change before they enter the pipe that Ludwig and Larry are hiding in:
*** "Guys before you go in, I just want to let you know that I'm only joining you four for me, alright? I can't stand that fat mess dictating us Goombas anymore and it's about time that someone stepped out of the line and slapped him in the face. Every obstacle that you guys have faced so far as far as I'm aware has been the result of our hard and thankless work and the only one to have paid us for it is his uglier clone. And yet, it's not even enough for me to retire to Poshley Heights and start dating....Yet maybe it might be enough for something less stressful than this stupid job. All I know is that I'm facing up to the big man upstairs and I am going to break something in his body.....Dunno what it will be yet."
=== Bowser's Castle ===
* Upon entering the castle, Vivian pops up out from the shadows to accompany the trio with some recruits, with her line of dialogue being:
**" Mario, I'm coming with you, those tyrants must fall before us."
*The recruits that Vivian brings with her are Captain T. Ode, Prince Mush, Parakarry and Goombella. Paper Luigi pulls out a bag that they can ride in and they jump in.
*The Papercraft King Boo battle has been removed along with the existing minigame that followed it.
*The Elite Trio are the ones to complain about the workload.
*Chomp Bros and Koopatrols patrol the area along with the already existing enemies in the area.
*The Shy Guy holding the two Chain Chomps is green and is labelled as "Walker Guy". 
*After the trio defeat the two Bowser Jrs, the castle is not levitated into the sky with the story reason for why Bowser is stealing the ore from Twinsy Tropics being used as a strong form of ammo. Peach's Castle is the first target of the new ammo.
*After the demolition of Peach's Castle, Toadette and Toadsworth arrive with an army of Paper Toads who are ready to storm the castle. 
*Koopalings fight the trio together as apposed to be two by two by three. They all ride in Bowser's Koopa Clown Car and can attack the brothers using it or using their wands. 
*During Bowser and Paper Bowser's transformation, the Paper Toads are also sucked into the armor.
*Shinny RoboBowser is renamed "Shinny Bowser". 
=== Epilogue ===
* Several days after what has happened, Princess Peach holds a meeting in her rebuilt castle to declare the inhabits of the book a welcome majority in the Mushroom Kingdom. At the end of the meeting she opens the book in front of everyone and various locations from previous Paper Mario games land in different parts of the Mushroom Kingdom. 
=== Staff Credits ===
* During the Papercraft Parade, pictures of what life is like now in the Mushroom Kingdom with the Paper characters in it fade on the screen.
=== Post Game ===
* The trio can revisit the locations that they travelled to, in order to catch up on what they've missed out on, or complete some new quests. 
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