*Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam: Director's Cutout*

Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam: Director's Cutout is a rom hack of the Nintendo 3DS game, Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam. The rom hack aims to address the flaws of the game in terms of character design and story elements to help it fit in line with the set cannon in the Mario & Luigi RPG series, while also increasing the difficulty in the gameplay. 
== Gameplay ==
Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam: Director's Cutout stays true to the original version's core gameplay, without making any major alterations such as adding partners. However, changes have been made to the gameplay experience much more difficult and provide a challenge for players. 
Paper Luigi follows the main trio in the overworld. 
=== Battle System ===
The battle system forgoes allowing Paper Mario to use the Copy Block command in battle. The paper enemies are now the only ones who are allowed to use it and they use it whenever they're low on copies, which makes fighting them a challenge as the copies boost their POW stat. This still rewards the player with a doubled amount of Experience Points regardless.
The already existing Battle Cards in the game cost more Star Points than in the original game, always costing 100 Star Points, making their usage, much less occasional than before in battle. The way to receive Star Points has also been changed. Instead of the ratings of the attacks adding to the increase value of the meter on the bottom screen, Star Points are rewarded at the end of battle and are based on the number of Excellents that Mario, Luigi and Paper Mario receive for performing an Attack. Each Excellent adding a point to the meter. 
Instead of Paper Mario having his own separate form of Special Attacks that include three man action and him just watching Mario and Luigi perform their own special attacks. The Bros. Attacks now include the three man action instead of being linked, only to Mario and Luigi. This changes the way they perform. The Bros. Attacks are also shared between the three heroes. 
Paper Luigi resides on the bottom screen watching the fights, on the top screen. When asked to throw up a Battle Card to use in the fight, he will pick the card the player selects. If at any point the three characters are knocked out, he will take their place and fight the enemies himself, only have 10 HP and his boots and hammer to attack the enemies, with the Paper Toads that the trio would've recused joining in the fight as an audience. 
== General Changes ==
* There's more RPG original characters. They get added as NPCs that can be talked to, some get placed in the story, where demanded. 
* 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 Papercraft Battles are omitted from the story in order to make 50% of the Toad Rescue missions optional instead of mandatory. Toadette's role in the story reflects this change as well.
* Paper Toads are not the only friendly species that left the book. There are five Paper species spread across the Mushroom Kingdom, those five being Toads, Yoshis, Piantas, Snowmen and Hermit Crabs.
* The paper sound effects are omitted completely from the game.
* The red rings that show up under the characters when dodging enemies are omitted.
* The characters' brightness is no longer reduced when an enemy is attacking one of the characters.
* Starlow is given a different role in the story, with her role being given to Paper Luigi, who remains outside of Mario's pockets at all times.
* The plot point where Bowser's Castle flies to the sky is omitted so that everything that happens in that point is simplified, in the trek to Bowser's Castle.
* The two Petey Piranha boss fights have been omitted.
* The Bowser boss fight has been omitted in favour of a different final boss.
* The Dry Bowser boss fight has been omitted in favour of a fight between the fusion of the Best Fitness Friends. 
* There is a bigger explanation for the ore being sent to Bowser's Castle.
* The number of bosses has been reduced from sixteen to six. Five of the bosses being the ones who contribute to the narrative of the story, and one of them being a replacement for Dry Bowser.
== Level, Event, Character and Dialogue Changes ==
=== Peach's Castle (first visit) ===
* Toadsworth replaces the Toad who witnesses Luigi tangling with the Scardey Rat in the attic, with Nabbit replacing the Scardey Rat.
* The paper characters don't shoot out of the castle roof, they end up being contained in the attic, most of which get scared because of the claustrophobia and end up running out of the castle.
* Starlow is accompanied by her family from the Star Shrine, who all support mustaches, hair bobbins and sunglasses. 
* Before Starlow joins the brothers, Paper Luigi walks into the throne room and tells her that he'll take it from here. 
** "I wouldn't want to put you out of any work but this is your family time, I'll take it from here."- Paper Luigi
** "Well......I suppose, but if at any point they're stuck, read them this book."-Starlow
** She gives Paper Luigi the tutorial book.
* The chase with Nabbit happens in the main foyer of the castle instead of the workshop. 
=== Sunbeam Plains ===
* The Paper Goomba sports the first Royal Sticker on his head as well as a white mustache, deeming himself as a "King of Comedy".
* The scene with the two Bowsers fighting and Kamek is omitted, following the way the opening scene played out.
* The fight with the Goomba Wheel doesn't result in Mario and Luigi being knocked out. 
* The Petey Piranha fight doesn't happen.
=== Doop Doop Dunes (first visit) ===
* Kamek is the only one who shows up to terrorise the brothers with his magic, summoning the two Pokeys. 
**"That's right losers, let the hate flow through you. Ehehehehehe!"- Kamek
* The fight between the Pokeys happens at the bridge to Bowser's Castle.
=== Underground Dungeon (first visit) ===
* A blue and pink paper Yoshi replace the Toads hauling the ore.
* Roy and Wendy aren't fought at the exit.
=== Twinsey Tropics ===
* The boat is built by some of the Paper Toads from Doop Doop Dunes.
=== Peach's Castle (second visit) ===
* In arriving at Peach's Castle, Toadsworth takes the role of the green Toad who tells the trio about where the two Princess Peachs have been taken. Unlike the green Toad however, he tells the brothers to look for "a friend of his" in the woods as quickly as possible, instead of going off on a tangent and running out of the castle. 
=== Gloomy Woods ===
* Both the plot points from the first and second visit in the original game have been merged together.
** When entering the woods, the first goal is to get Wiggler to clean up all of the roadblocks. However, instead of the intermission with Kamek, the trio end up taking a wrong route and head into the deep dark part of the woods, meeting King Boo, separating Luigi and Paper Luigi from Mario and Paper Mario, reuniting them, having them meet Wiggler and Paper Kamek, only to be ambushed by King Boo.
=== Mount Brr ===
* Both the plot points from the first and second visit in the original game have been merged together.
** When entering Mount Brr, the trio are tasked with getting to the villa, which is at the top of the mountain, close to the paper factory. In reaching the factory, the brothers fight the owner of the factory King Bob-omb and the goons who put them in the prison, the Chargin Chucks
** In winning the fight and receiving the medallion, the brothers climb to the top of the villa, but fall down a painted trap door on the top of the villa, plunging down into the depths of the mountain. 
=== The Grotto ===
* Walking back to the trampoline set up earlier, the brothers decide to take another route after seeing the Bowsers take away the Princesses to the castle. 
=== Doop Doop Dunes (second visit) ===
* The part of the scene where the Paper Goomba jumps into Mario's pockets is altered following Paper Luigi's inclusion in the story.
=== Twinsey Tropics (second visit) ===
=== Underground Dungeon (second visit) ===
* The events following the medallion don't happen, what replaces them is the Paper Goomba getting arrested by the Fire Bros for "fraud". 
=== Bowser's Castle ===
* The explanation for the ore being transferred is revealed early on at the arrival. The reveal is a carnival around the exterior of the castle which the trio have to keep a low profile around. This is where they chase Nabbit and get the last remaining Bros. Attacks from him. Leading onto where the trio learn the Trio Plane, shut down the operation to blow up Peach's Castle, catch the Bowser Juniors who have the book, fight them along with everyone of Bowser's prominent staff members joining in the fight, and then chase after the Bowsers who have the book, only to be ambushed by Nabbit, who along with the help of the Shroob army, fight the trio.
=== Ending ===
* Peach and Paper Peach both kiss Luigi and Paper Luigi.
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