Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door finally coming to Nintendo Switch

No one can make a game nigh-impossible to play for years and years and then get you excited to buy a remake quite like Nintendo, and let me tell you, they’ve done it again. Gamecube classic gets a remake Paper Mario The Thousand-Year Door Has a reputation as being the second best Mario RPG out there. Super Mario RPGMost consider this to be one of the greatest Paper Mario games. And now, as announced at Thursday’s Nintendo Direct, it’s the latest game in Nintendo’s extensive back catalog of bangers to get an HD touch-up and upcoming Switch release.

Paper Mario The Thousand-Year Door takes the formula established by the N64’s Paper Mario — genuinely funny writing focused on the monsters The following are some examples of how to get started: henchmen of the Mario games, a sprinkle of RPG number crunching, and inventive minigames — and perfects it. Later Paper Mario games, like Color Splash and The Origami kingThe game would have been built around the gameplay, but The Thousand Year Door is the last great pure Mario comedy-RPG, as the next title, the Wii’s Super Paper MarioThe RPG would be combined with the more traditional Mario Platforming.

The Paper Mario art style ages incredibly well even in three dimensions, but the Switch remake looks genuinely remarkable, taking the arts and crafts vision of Mario’s world and making it look genuinely handmade at times.

Paper Mario The Thousand-Year DoorNintendo Switch will be available in 2024.