Paper Mario (2024)

Paper Mario is a 2024 Nintendo Switch remake of the 2001 Nintendo 64 title of the same name, created soon after the remake of its sequel released earlier the same year.
The title features dramatically enhanced and updated graphics and gameplay mechanics that make Paper Mario more reminiscent of its sequel, including an individual health bar for Mario's party members. Furthermore, as the Nintendo 64 title included no voice acting, its remake now includes minor voice clips from the Mario series' modern day voice actors, such as Kevin Afghani's rendition of Mario himself. However, as with the remake of The Thousand-Year Door, it is overwhelmingly faithful to the original release in terms of overall design.
==Differences==
===Elements Taken from The Thousand-Year Door and Its Remake===
*The player has access to the Nostalgic Tunes badge, resembling a Nintendo 64, as soon as they arrive in Toad Town, which will revert the game's remixed soundtrack back to its original version.
*As with other modern Paper Mario games, the player has access to an Art Gallery, which presents the player with concept and promotional art. More entries to the Art Gallery are added for every Star Piece that Mario has collected. The player can also access a Sound Gallery.
*Mario's party members all have their own Heart Points, similarly to his partners in TTYD. 
*Many badges originating in TTYD, including the "P" series of badges that add effects to Mario's partner, have been added to Paper Mario, many being scattered across the map, while others may be acquired by trading with Merlow for Star Pieces or purchasing them from Rowf and Rhuff in Toad Town.
*Mario and his party has access to Stylish moves, potentially increasing the amount of Star Power gained from a turn.
*Pressing ZL in the overworld will allow one of Mario's partners to offer a hint about where or how to proceed.
*The game now has a full Tattle Log, incentivizing players to make use of Goombario's Tattle ability. Furthermore, the player has access to a recipe log and badge list to assist in full completion.
*The Battle Master can be found across the world, usually in towns, where the player can practice Action Commands and Stylish moves against Goomboards.
*The player has access to a warp room in the Toad Town sewers with 7 warp pipes that the player can take to rapidly travel between the primary locations of each chapter. A new location may only be opened up once Mario has received a new Star Spirit and taken it to this room. Due to this, the individual warp pipes found in the original game divided distantly across the Toad Town sewers have been removed.
*In the overworld, Mario can swing his hammer forward and backwards like in other modern Paper Mario games.
*Mario has lost the ability to interact with most field objects using the A button; instead, the player can interact with objects on the field by using Mario's hammer.
*The player can hold the L button to bring up the Partner Ring and rapidly switch between partners.
===New Gameplay Changes===
*Mario and his party have access to Action Commands from the start, with the Lucky Star being removed altogether. Instead, following the prologue, Princess Peach gives Twink a Timing Tutor badge to take to Mario, which gives the player the opportunity to learn about Stylish moves as well.
*More variety has been added to Action Commands of Mario's and his partners' moves, so that every partner has unique inputs rather than the more repetitively occurring inputs from the original title.
*To accommodate for the increased health between Mario's party (as all of Mario's partners now have their own Heart Points), many enemies and bosses have increased health, attack, and/or defense.
===New Content===
*After the player has completed the main quest, collecting all seven Star Spirits and defeating Bowser, they will have access now to post-game content. If the player opens their save file after clearing the credits, they may return to Toad Town and even head to Peach's Castle which has returned to its original location, and speak with Princess Peach.
**The player may even return to Bowser's Castle, which is now underground beneath Peach's Castle.
*In tandem with The Thousand-Year Door and Super Paper Mario, there is now a Pit of 100 Trials that allows Mario to take on a gauntlet of all the game's enemies and challenge a special boss upon reaching floor 100. 
*Some of the dialogue from the original game has been altered, primarily with the purpose of modernizing the game.
*Every track from the original game has been remastered and/or remixed. Most notably, every unique area now has its own battle theme, similar to in the latest Paper Mario titles.
**The track that plays at the peak of Shooting Star Summit now has variations at the end of each chapter, wherein a new instrument begins to play each time a new Star Spirit has been found; this is also similar to certain locations in entries since Paper Mario: Color Splash.
*Goombario's Tattle has been expanded thoroughly, now allowing him to offer much more information to the player than before.
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