Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is a Nintendo GameCube role-playing game released in 2004. It won the IGN.com award for best RPG game of the year. It uses the setting of Nintendo's Mario games. The game received a remake for the Nintendo Switch in 2024.

Plot
Princess Peach finds a map in an old town filled with crime. Mario sets off to the town of Rogueport, along with several other areas where he finds the Crystal Stars. There is a door deep in the sewers of Rogueport (the Thousand-Year Door) which will open if all the Crystal Stars are collected. It is said that a demonic spirit rests behind the door. The X-Nauts (a group of robot-like people) try to steal all of the Crystal Stars in order to awaken an evil demon to wipe out the planet so that they can become dictators of the world. The last boss of the game is the Shadow Queen who possesses (takes over) Princess Peach.

Remake

A remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door was announced on September 14, 2023.https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/09/early-tech-analysis-investigates-paper-mario-thousand-year-door-switch-fps-and-resolution It was released on May 23, 2024. The game runs at 30 FPS, but doesn't have a major effect on gameplay.https://www.nintendolife.com/features/hands-on-paper-mario-the-thousand-year-door-unfolds-gloriously-on-switch

Reviews

The game had good reviews.

Notes

References

Category:2004 video games
Category:LGBT-related video games
Category:Nintendo GameCube games
Category:Nintendo Switch games
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Category:Video games about dragons
Category:Video games about shapeshifting