I believe Yahtzees old praise holds true: changing the formula from grassland, forest, fire world, ice world to grassland, forest, WWE, Agatha Cristy novel was the right decision.
I mean the first game fleshed out the known Mario universe and I love it for that. We now know that the average Mario desert is called Dry Dry Desert, it introduced Toad Town as the Mushroom Kingdom capital and stuff like that. And with all that being covered, the sequels go wild
Something I really appreciated was that you can bonk every NPC in the game on the head with the hammer which I don’t remember being in the original game. That, and the fact that you have multiple directions you can swing your hammer now instead of just 2 is not to be slept on.
I LOVE being able to use the hammer in multiple directions. It is so nice and I bet its gonna be so weird to unlearn that when i play the original game again or 64
BIG fan of slamming every npc who bugs me over the head Robbed me? SLAM SLAM SLAM SLAM Made me go get another hot dog? SLAM SLAM SLAM SLAM SLAM Insulted my hammer?? SLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAM Bullied Vivian?????? *SLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAM*
@@via3600Not even that. Just the THUNK and the feedback is so satisfying. If they didn't want to turn me into a sociopathic destroyer of NPCs they shouldn't a made hitting them so fun lol
@TheQuashingoftheTub it's truly beautiful This is the first playthrough I've actually used the sound effect badges which adds a whole new comical layer to it all, especially since I frequently accidentally hit b after dialogue Like imagine you're an actual mafia mob boss and this random man somehow makes it to your headquarters, walks right up to you, and asks for an expensive blimp ticket Impressed by the pure balls of the man to do such a thing, you send him on an errand to prove if he's worthy and the SECOND you're done talking, he slams an entire hammer the same size as him onto the the floor and it makes a comical BOING sound
The partner wheel really saves time if youre trying to get to a partner for a puzzle, swap to another for combat, then back to another puzzle. Feels much smoother than opening and closing the menu constantly
Not really. You can just press left on the d pad and switch to your preferred partner. It is definitely a bit easier to remember the partner ring combo though if you don't have the menu shortcuts memorised though.
I find myself wishing the wheel just had you point to fixed spots for each partner rather than making me scroll through it one at a time. Even multiple chapters in, I'm still switching to the wrong ones by mistake. It's a nice idea but in practice I don't feel it works
I have a copy of this to my sister as an early birthday gift and she was overjoyed, giving me multiple hugs and saying I’m the greatest brother ever! This game really is a definitive part of our childhoods.
Yesssss slay I just HAD to get this for my sis, too. TTYD was the first game she ever boight/preordered with her own money, and one of her faves. The remake literally came out on her Bday. It was fate lol
i was really taken off guard with the amount of love and care that went into this game. from the lighting, the animations, the soundtrack, the quality of life. i dont believe ive played a remake of a game in recent years that felt so damn perfect.
I know!! It's so simple and kind of small, but my favorite thing is the little faces that your partners make when you select them from the partner ring
I have to remember to look at the characters to see them emote instead of focusing on reading the text. This wasn’t an issue on the GCN, since no one ever emoted besides Mario, but it is a problem I welcome to have!
I want to make a note that wasn't mentioned here and that's a subtle but wonderful difference I noticed. I entered Hooktail Castle and entered my first battle only to realise the combat music had changed. It's still the same at its core, but it had changed pitch and key as if it were an entirely new track. I was in awe. I'm so hyped for the rest of the game!
The game encompasses the very spirit of Arlo. Arlo's very first video that put this channel on the UA-cam map was about Paper Mario, and now we are literally listening to Arlo gushing over TTYD on a modern gaming engine! We are living in a brand new era, and we'll be following you every step of the way, Arlo!!!🥳🎉
@awildmoose6541 Ho Ho Ho! Meeerrry Christmassss 🎅🎅🎅🧑🎄 The gamecube game wasn't running lighting and reflections and shadows and any of that Start growing your brain today! For only 2.99
@@awildmoose6541 ok but does it need to run at 60? It's a turn by turn RPG, it's slow. Also, this is a brand new game, not just a port. And 60 bucks for one of the greatest game ever made is not indecent.
Arlo's been waiting so long for this, many of us have. One could say we partially have him to thank for this. And I'm so happy the wait was worth it. And I'm glad I can finally play it.
I'm loving it too, but there is one nitpick I have that I'm surprised you didn't mention, and it's that unlike the original, you can't skip through dialog that you haven't seen before in each save file. This means whenever you're forced into a tutorial for something you're fully familiar with, you can't just mash B and get to the end, you have to deal with the entire conversation. It's not game breaking, but it is mildly annoying.
@@deanmoriarty6015 Yeah, the whole combat is slower. Bit of a shame. I'm going to enjoy the remake and I'm glad to spend the money, but tbh I will probably go back to the gamecube version afterwards.
Honestly, I was a bit annoyed at first, but the dialogue is just fast enough that it doesn't bother me. It runs at the perfect reading speed for me. Maybe the teeniest bit too slow. But, outside of more modern Pokemon games, tutorials have never really diminished my enjoyment.
@@SirFlopsyHonestly, I thought that happened in the original, too. It doesn't feel much slower than the original, but there's also a little more visual feedback to communicate what happens, so it might just depend on the person?
I used to play Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door a ton throughout the years, even recently, so I can confirm a few things with the items and badges in the original; 1. Enemies actually hold items fairly commonly in the original. Sometimes you won't see it much, but other times it actually happens quite a bit in the original too. 2. The stuff with enemies getting the effects of badges and holding them in battle was in the original too. Badges were a lot rarer to see them hold, especially with certain badges, but I probably see a dozen or so different enemies in every playthrough I do that end up holding some kind of badge, even when just regularly playing the game. Sadly I can't afford to get the remake yet, but it really does look absolutely amazing! I still can't believe we finally have a remake of Thousand Year Door after all of these years, and I can't believe its just as amazing as ever, possibly even better! Thanks for taking a bit of your time to read this, I hope everyone here has a great day!
I really appreciate the new character animations, unique voice chatter for each character and the different musical motifs depending on the areas you’re in.
I’m only a few chapters in and boy was it worth the wait. I truly see why this game is so beloved. The dialogue is so witty, tons of charm, fun as hell battle system. Everything has been a complete joy so far.
@@chaostes4997Idk what you were expecting honestly? Lol that’s every Mario game and compared to Origami King this is leagues better. The parter abilities plus badges make battling way more fun, and that’s all that matters.
@@chaostes4997 I believe this is one of those games where you're allowed to make it as difficult as you want, just slap on whatever badges you desire and there you go. So I must ask: Why are you actively making combat _less_ difficult for yourself and then saying the battle system sucks when you're willingly choosing to play the game how you are? If you're looking for battle systems that suck play Sticker Star, play Colour Splash, play The Origami King. It's their way or the high way, no choice, no strategy, no incentive really. I could go on but it's all been said before.
It's even more witty in the original. Obviously this is a great remake and I'm glad to buy it...but a few things were toned down to keep it more Rated E...also a few other lines are just absent...for no apparent reason. But besides, from that it's great. 30fps also is a shame but isn't a huge lost.
This game makes me feel so strange because... It's new but I've played it and I feel like I know the ins and outs of it already even though I played the original more than 15 years ago. I was immediately doing flips with the hammers and super guards on the first enemies like I was picking up riding a bike again. I really like this game a lot but I really hope this leads to a sequel in its style that is truly new because this is great and I want more.
Once again, you've summed up what I was trying to tell someone. I've never really played a remake that was so similar to the original game, yet felt new???? It's fantastic.
As someone that’s on Chapter 7 and has played through the original numerous times: -Some of the QoL added has been very nice, even if not all are ultra useful to me in particular -30 fps IS noticeable and has specifically increased guard/super guard timings -Not being able to mash through text and the text speed being generally slow has made a lot of the intermission/lore sections feel VERY sluggish. No joke you will be pressing a or b for over 5 minutes simply because each text box has to fully complete before the next can slowly start up. It’s going to add like an hour to the glitchless speedruns -The 15 item inventory QoL loses a lot of value when you realize the strange sack on floor 50 of the pit now only gives 5 more inventory slots to match the total 20 you’d have after getting it in the original. Kinda lowers the excitement when you only increase your inventory by 33% instead of 100% -As a long time player it’s a bit sad that every star piece/shine Sprite/item /badge is in the exact same spot. There’s not really any new discovery aspect for us other than some minor things -Some very fun/neat animations, my personal new favorite being when using Flurrie’s gale on the Punis midfight with the Jabbis. Def use her in there to see what I mean -The First Attack badge being swapped from a 1bp to a 0bp cost, essentially turning it from a choice to use it to a QoL, is very welcome -Yoshi having an acceleration buildup at the start when riding him…why? -Goombella now having a button to press to have her tip you off to what you’re supposed to be doing next in the story is very cool for newer players. I can definitely see that being helpful in some of the more convoluted sections like the train cabins Probably more but can’t think off the top of my head. All in all glad to play it and I’m enjoying it but there are definitely some things (mostly the text speed) I’d like to see get patched to help turn this into the remaster we deserve
"-Yoshi having an acceleration buildup at the start when riding him…why?" I'm not there yet but this sounds annoying. Also did you notice the timing on Koops first attack is a bit too difficult to hit?
@@travv88 it’s a decently minor buildup but every time you get on it does start to add up. With that said you can now directly enter sideways pipes/doors without having to manually get off Yoshi yourself now. You can press A next to a door while riding and you’ll automatically get off and go through so that is a nice QoL Yoshi-wise Also yeah, Koops is a tad more precise now for sure
I can’t wait to play this game. I grew up playing the original but never got too far into it on account of me being a dumb child. Now I that I’m older I can finally finish it
I plugged away at it for _years,_ restarting file after file, and only beat it once. It's one of the only video games to this day whose ending made me cry.
Even this glowing review doesn't highlight just how incredible this game is. One crazy thing about it is that the weirdness isn't there for ghe express purpose of being weird it's genuine world-building and foreshadowing. That symbol graffitied everywhere probably leads to an optional boss, there's a secret related to "x" organization, one of the people you encountered is now in your quest way down the line everything about this game is a masterpiece
I have been going around hammering every unique character to see the animation they do and I love it. it reminds me of spraying every Pianta I saw in Sunshine the first time I played it. So far I am absolutely just as enamored with the remaster as I was with the original all those years ago.
"The lower framerate is noticeable, and the text moves slower" are so far the only criticisms I can give about the remake. I still have my copy of the original, but I'm having a hard time justifying playing that version again instead of the new one.
@@videogollumer I usually can't, but it really is noticeable in this game. Background objects appear to jitter across the screen when it scrolls, and that has hurt my eyes. I still love and recommend this remake, but yeah the frame rate has been a problem.
@@videogollumer You definitely can, everyone can. The jump from 30 to 60 is jarringly obvious after 30 seconds of actually paying attention, but it's very true in this game due to the paper aesthetic and the Switch's poor aliasing that would helped smooth that out, even if it stayed 30. There's not a lot of extrapolating frames to go around, and the paper backing gets smeared due to the way sprites have to be drawn. Blocking and super-guarding is a muscle-memory nightmare due to the cut, at least it feels like that.
Paper Mario came into such a different time of my life. I actually got it the year it came out for Christmas, I’ll never forget the joy my heart overfilled with hearing the menu’s main theme. It was one of my favorite games growing up, I had a cousin who I competed with who can beat it first, he did but unfortunately I’ve yet to beat paper Mario TTYD. So I’m thinking next week, I’m going to buy a switch and paper Mario and finally beat this game once and for all.
My wife looooved Origami King. It was her first and only paper Mario game. I’ve talked to her before about how paper Mario used to be better and such but she liked TOK a lot so she disregarded my comments. I showed her this remake but never told her it was a remake. She started playing today still thinking it’s a new game (Nintendo’s marketing ploy worked) and it is fascinating to watch her play it through that lense. If she knew it was an old game remade she might have an aversion to it due to me bad mouthing one of her fav games ever 😅 So im going to watch her play through the entire thing without knowing.
I’d be interested to hear her thoughts on it, before and after she learns it’s a remake. Although, the game might spoil that for her itself, it does say “(c) 2004” on the main menu.
This is truly one of the most embarrassing and cringiest things I’ve ever read. Heaven forbid she loved the game and didn’t get brain rot from you thinking she was wrong. You’re an asshole gatekeeper. Gross.
Been watching a relative play the game, and there are some UX problems that weren't in the original: - Can't insta-skip dialogue by pressing B! - Before an enemy is starting it's attack, it waits for the star power meter to finish animating! These add extra waiting time and doesn't feel good. That said, everything else is pretty great. You can even skip cooking. Shame about the 60FPS, Hope they can optimize it, maybe for support on a next-gen console.
It's less about optimization and more about power. Mario RPG really struggled to keep 60fps on Switch, so they went for a different solution this time focusing on consistent reduced frame time latency. I imagine in the future both will get backwards compatibly patches as it's not the hardest thing to do it they are using the solution I suspect
Fun fact! Marza Animation Planet (the team that does the CGI cutscenes for Sonic games) handled the lighting in the TTYD remake! (They also did the lighting for TOK, but imo TTYD's lighting is even better!)
The only complaint I have is that the text goes too slow, in the original you could press ‘B’ to speed it up/make it all appear and advance it, they took that feature out for some reason and it makes the game feel so much slower, probably not a problem you’d notice when streaming it, but playing on your own it’s fairly annoying. I was honestly looking forward to what speedrunners would do with the remake but something like this will make it significantly slower than just running the original even after they get a chance to see what glitches still work and if there are new ones to exploit.
That's one of the best features introduced by Paper Mario that I never understood why Nintendo didn't put in every game like all Zelda games. Every RPG / story-focused game should have that, and I'm saying it as someone who DOES make sure to read ALL dialogue whenever I play something I like for the first time.
It's not an big deal by any means. It's just if you prefer to speedrun the game and not care about the dialog, than your not gonna get much here. But if your like me who doesn't speedrun and reading the dialog on what's happening and what to do or where to go, than sometimes it's best to read it to understand before rushing it.
there was one moment when the crows in the spooky town were talking about "oh no we're going to run out of fossil fuels" and i had... completely forgotten that "peak oil" was something we cared deeply about in 2004. the issue wasn't "we need to stop burning oil at all costs", it was "what can we burn if there's no more oil?" thanks paper mario for that trip to a more innocent time
I would love if they made a Paper Luigi to detail all of the things that Luigi was up to & telling you stories about during the course of this game. You can tell the splatoon/animal crossing team handled this remake based on the music and the environmental details
The lack of the slots sounds is very noticable. I can understand if they had to remove them for a gambling connection, but there should've been something more distinctive.
I’m fairly certain they are there they’re just drowned out by the music. I’m fairly certain I could hear the spinia’s wind up attack and the audience members scream from being attacked.
@@jmaldonado790 yeah I switched to the original soundtrack and slots became easier to hear but it’s a ticking sound now. I think some of the sound effect have just been changed/updated from the original game.
Arlo is the spiritual embodiment of precisely how I feel about the game. It was my childhood and I'm loving every detail of revisiting the remade and remastered version; they've filled it with even more love and care than the first version. ITS SO GOOD AAAH
As someone who has never played a paper Mario before I’m having the best time with ttyd. I’m not sure what I enjoy the most but the story and characters are so charming and well written thanks for selling me on this Arlo :)
Watching your live of TTYD, Arlo playing the game that I’ve loved so so much since I was young and with your love and appreciation of the game as well was just the absolute highlight of my month. It really made me happy and let me feel giddy excitement over something so small. The last few months have been really tough and that live was the place and catalyst for me to feel really happy and grateful and be in a much better place. So thank you.
I just want to say thank you Arlo. I’ve heard you praise this game for years and I gave it a shot on day one. I absolutely love it. Never would’ve given it a try without you. Thank you so much!
Something I've really come to appreciate is something similar they did in the RPG remake, variant/dynamic themes in battles. When you're thinking in battle, the music changes in TTYD. And I didn't notice it at first until I got to Cortex and was like 'Wait.. WAIT THE MUSIC CHANGED!?' I.. I love this so much.
I love how whenever a battle starts, (When neither Mario or the enemy is the first to strike) the stage has some paper props in the background that pop up. It's a small detail, but it makes me love the remake even more for embracing It's Pop-Up Book ascetic.
So wonderful that they changed so much about it for the better. I'm still shocked it's a full remake and not just a port. A port would've been so easy, but they went the extra mile.
As a newer Paper Mario fan, I love this game. Origami King was my first Paper Mario game, and I wasn’t a big fan of the game outside of the boss battles. I’ve since played a bit of Paper Mario 64 and I absolutely love what I played. I know how special this game is to so many people, and I can see why. This game is incredible!
It’s very much living up to the hype. Just..the amount of weird jokes they make and the strange tonal shifts…it’s amazing. Definitely gonna be one of my favorite games..
One thing that I found out in my playthrough is that the Strange Sack (the reward on Floor 50 of the Pit of 100 Trials) increases the amount of items you can hold from 15 to 20. Which is a bit odd to me since it was originally 10 to 20 on the GameCube, so I thought, with the increase in the base item limit, they would double the amount as they did (So 30 items). Guess I was wrong, but hey more item slots are more item slots.
i did the first 50 floors between chapter 2 & 3 specifically because i was expecting it to be 30 items as well lmao. when i saw it was still only 20 i was like damn i would’ve saved this for much later in the game if i knew it was only gonna give me 5 more items
The best part about remaking it is simply because it is making it more accessible. I never got to play the original one, but now that it’s in the switch I’ve been having the time of my life playing it and I’m sure there’s other people who experienced the same
Dolphin is "easy" to set up.. but I shouldnt have ti watch youtube videos when i got a express bag of money to give to n10doe. Also there was a guy arguing to "just get a gamecube disk and play it on a wii." Like.. breh.
Paper Mario and Paper Mario TTYD were my first ever JRPGs before I knew what those were and it also lowkey made me think I love Mario more than I actually did. These games make the world of Mario feel so alive compared to others
I gotta say that I really do love how much The Origami King just bleeds right into this remake of TTYD! From the suped up ost of the classic tracks to the brand new tracks made just for this remake and even some charming bits like how Bowser's theme from Origami King kinda peaks into Bowser's theme in this game. The wonderful artstyle, how positively pleasant the game look from the beautiful artistic value of the paper-crafted artsyle or how expressive the characters can be. The sound design, like the sound effects sound like TOK's take on TTYD's sfx. Overall this new era of modern Paper Mario on the Switch is just a beautifully bright future!!
I had goosebumps when I started the game up! I played this game soo many times as a kid and havent for a decade. It felt like bumping into your childhood best friend as an adult!❤
This game is so fun you guys! I have a feeling I'm going to beat it over the weekend that's how much I am loving it. However, if I did have to throw ONE, just one bit of criticism towards the remake though. The nostalgic tunes badge feels like false advertising. It switches some of the new tracks back to the gamecube ones...but not ALL of them. Without going into spoilers of course, there's an intense moment towards the end of chapter 2 where you are forced to listen to the new track, no matter if you have the nostalgic tunes badge on and that new track, to me anyway, is inferior to the original. When it comes to new character themes, that's totally different and I welcome that change! But things like not being able to listen to the old partner tutorial track, for example, does bug me as again. I liked that track better then the new one and as far as I know, there is no way to change it back. Is anyone else annoyed by this or am I being a grouchy old man?
I feel that way about the sound effects! The soundtrack badge only changes the music, not the sounds, and although it's admirable that every character now has their own unique 'voice', none of them are as satisfying as the original voice chip sound. Plus the battle UI feels so much different without all the original sound effects (I'm looking at you, Earth Tremor)
I left off playing right before the Hooktail fight, and my favorite feature so far is the additional sprites to make the characters more expressive. My second favorite new feature is the Star Piece and Shine Sprite completion percentage for each area listed on the Map. I can't wait to check out Boggly Woods, because that was always my favorite area aesthetically in the original.
Arlo, are you kidding? The partner wheel is probably my favorite QoL addition so far! Especially because I often change to Goombella for tattling. It's very convenient and saves quite a bit of time in the long run, plus it's less tedious
It saves a very very small fraction of a second from using the D Pad to scroll through the exact same wheel. I think what Arlo was expecting was a more modern wheel like in Tears of the Kingdom. One where characters are tied to specific directions so selection is snappy and you aren't having to scroll.
Honestly I don’t know if it’s just my bad eyes but everything but the characters look so good I think they could have been real life sets which they have then just added computer made characters onto. I actually think this is the best looking switch game in terms of what it’s going for that I have played, loving it!
Can I just say I'm kind of surprised how quiet Nintendo has been about this game? Not in terms of marketing...I've seen several trailers and bits here and there. I mean more in the sense that...the last few games before release we've had interviews with Intelligent Systems talking about making the game and how things got to where they are now. I think this is the first Paper Mario game since Super where we know very little about the production of the game. Like I'm so excited to finally have this, but why now? What changed? I've heard alot of the Origami King team worked on this, but they've been so very quiet about this and I'm curious as to why.
@epicgamerzfail4575 I mean, there are definitely things to talk about. Making the game on new hardware. Thought process for some if any changes they made. Whether or not this is a test for future games. Why they made this immediately after Origami King Edit: Admittedly Nintendo hasn't been talking about the making of their games alot recently. I think the last game they talked about development was...I want to say Tears of the Kingdom
1:04 Actually, in the code of the game, people have found evidence of 4K support in the works. This is the first switch game to have this, so it leans heavily towards the idea of the Switch 2 having 4K support.
it's useful but for some reason the animations for opening/switching/closing take a ton of time and do not feel that much faster in the end (it's a thing in general in this game, animations in menus take a lot of time, see: little delay when you select options in battle)
It's really no diffrent than using the D Pad. A more modern wheel would have assigned characters to specific directional inputs, instead of cycling through the exact same rotation that's found in the menu.
The last time i played TTYD was like ten years ago, so playing it again as an adult made me realise how funny the writing is The crows talking about realistic human things in chapter 4 made me laugb so hard lmao
The button mapping thing is a little annoying. Can't count the amount of times I've tried to "strike first" on an enemy with the hammer, only to fail cause my mind keeps expecting it to be the Y button. The inability to skip cut-scenes or a speed-up option for the dialog is also weirdly absent. I feel like those are standard features for games this day and age.
Yeah, the removal of the ability to mash through text, coupled with the removal of the ability to scroll back through text, is putting a bit of a damper on an otherwise perfect experience. Also the battle menus are a bit sluggish too. Don’t like how you have to wait for your stars to fill the meter before continuing the fight and how there’s a slight delay when selecting, like, jump and then trying to select which jump you’d like to use from the submenu. Bit worried that these won’t be patched because apparently Sticker Star, Color Splash, and TOK all didn’t let you skip through text or cutscenes.
I mean, the B button is the action button in every Nintendo games. Kirby inhales with B, Samus fires with B, Mario throws Cappy with B, etc. It was like that even on the GameCube.
@@thelastwindwaker7948 depends. BotW and TotK, yes, but that's because of the sprint button. In Link's Awakening, it's B. As for DKC, it's because of how you need to press both buttons at the same time, which is easier with Y and B than with B and A.
Half the frame rate half the fun! Just kidding, already got my copy but gonna finish Unicorn Overlord before diving in. Only so much mind space for these games at a time.
loving the game so far! this is my first time. and honestly while the 30fps is noticeable, i adjusted to it very quickly. but i do also hope for a next-gen patch that gives us higher resolutions!
Something I didn’t see Arlo mention is that the function to scroll dialogue is missing. There are funny bits that I accidentally missed in chapter 1. I largely agree and *adore* the life changes they included, and won’t spoil a specific element that improves enemy encounters, but man oh man do I miss the scrolling feature. Guess I took that one thing for granted 😅
The game is so well writen and it has a great story. So why on earth would anybody skip such a great story. The writting and the story is the reason why the game is so great.
@@alexh7513 I didn’t mean to skip. I just have ADHD and will normally do a double take on things I have read, but totally agreed, the writing is fantastic 😊
I still get the perfect timings just fine. The 60 fps to 30 fps change didn't affect my timing like I thought it might. It has been many years since I played the original though, so I don't have immediate whiplash from the potential timing.
There is one thing I don't think I'll be able to tolerate in further repeat playthroughs and that's the fact you can't press a mid dialogue to make all the text pop up so I can just skip through the text. like it's kinda nice to be given a pace to read at, but when I'm just going for gameplay in my next playthrough, the slow text is gonna be obnoxious. It feels like something they could patch, but I also don't think this is a game they'll patch at all. The time savers this game gives feel like they get immediately removed by the forced dialogue scroll and I really don't understand why they took away the ability to skip through, it makes an extremely replayable game so much less replayable. I'm not sure if I'm just remembering it wrong, but the time between actions feels longer too, like it's waiting for all the Star Points to fly into the bar when it didn't before, but it's definitely not as noticeable as the dialogue if it even is different. For context, I love (or feel neutral) almost if not all other changes the remake made. But it makes the quality of life feel like it's just giving you the time you lost from all these other things taking slightly longer constantly and I'll probably just end up going back to gamecube for future playthroughs unless people make mods for the game that "fix it" which I really don't think I should have to do
I already know it’s glorious, not only because I’ve already played the GameCube version, but because you would never shut up about it. Seriously I’ve been watching since I started high school, and I’m on college now you’ve made perfectly clear how much you love this game (still no Big Fat Review).
The changed writing are .Add tutorial moments . Goomba catcalling in sewers replaced hero insulting . Hooktails weakness back to frog . Vivian's storyline was sugarcoated in both past versions, now it is bluntly stated. That is all i know so far
I've noticed some more minor ones, be warned I've played up through almost the start of Chapter 5 so beware of minor spoilers?? . . . . . . . . Merlee calls herself a 'charming charmer' instead of a fortuneteller (likely to distinguish herself from Merluvlee). Merlon says "Return someday!" or something instead of "Then you may go." when he's done upgrading your partners. Jerry Bomb now no longer fears the sight of Luigi in a dress and gets toxically masculine about it, now he only fears the collateral damage of Luigi wearing heels. Hooktail is now properly gendered with she/her pronouns by every single person who refers to her. Koops no longer says "We thought your game was over!" when reuniting with his dad, he doesn't even allude to death directly at all in that scene. Which is weird because in other spots the game has no problem mentioning death. The Jabbi tribe are more explicitly Working With The X-Nauts rather than just taking advantage of the chaos to expand their territory. And of course, the game says Cleared after every boss, and not End Of Chapter.
@@tatltails3923 the hooktail one on one hand is weird to me, I mean I get it, she is female but in the og game the only reason the koopas thought otherwise was because they didn't get to interact in a way with her to learn it, not because they were being rude or w.e like they just saw a giant red thing flying over the town and occasionally swooping down to grab some koopas to eat, like I think it was a neat little twist in the OG we don't get anymore
@@supershot9729 It definitely threw me off to see all the Petalburg dialogue be the same except for the pronouns, and I agree it was fun to have a reveal, but I see why they changed it. If they're going to stick to their guns on gender inclusivity, they don't want to leave any gaps for people to go "but you didn't care about Hooktail's pronouns, why'd you have to get woke with Vivian, wah wah wah"
I've never played it before and really love it so far! I'm a dialogue/cutscene skipper but TTYD does them with such charming humor that I've stayed engaged.
I thought complaints about turn-based RPGs running at 30 fps was weird 20 years ago, and I still think so today. I won't be able to play TTYD myself for a while, but everything looks nice and smooth in the video footage, anyway.
I feel the opposite, I hated those children cheering in the original. I guess they could’ve redone them to sound more “grown up” but I don’t mind that they’re gone entirely
Two things I’ve noticed: First, you don’t interact with bushes with an A press anymore, you whack it with your hammer. I went all the way back to town to get a POW block for the second Schwonks fortress fight and the whole way I was like “I FEEL like there was a POW block somewhere on this path, but WHERE??” It was almost certainly in a bush and I didn’t think to whack it. I only realized you whack bushes late in chapter 2… Second, it’s nice that you don’t have to chase after everything you pop out of a bush or item block. Used to be as soon as an item fell on the ground you’d have to run after the little bastard, but now it falls neatly and predictably in front of where you free it from. Very nice touch!!
7:18 I agree with this, and it managed to catch me off guard once in Chapter 2. I had an X-Naut show up in a battle holding an hp plus badge, and just before I could see that, I first saw and freaked out for a moment about it having 9 health at the start of the fight. Of course, it was a simple fight and the badge hardly changed a thing, but I never knew that was a badge enemies could hold. It a was a fun new experience that surprised me.
My only real complaint about the game is that it feels laggy when in the combat menu, like if I click on attack it doesn’t immediately go into choose a target
you're right, those reflections look gorgeous the layered look is really nice this looks like a remake that is very well done. The classic paper marios were good stuff, I'm glad it gets some new life breathed into it
In terms of the writing: some of the more adult jokes seem to be omitted and I think it’s to keep it E rather than E10. One nice change though was they are referencing Hooktail with “she” rather than “he” like they did in the og. I remember as a kid it threw me off when later on in the game they refer to Hooktail as a sister dragon when up to that point Hooktail was “he”. Which I think was just a translation issue at the time.
Man I played this game for the first time on release day after hearing your and other peoples praises and a lot of Let's Plays and I'm officially in love now. What a beautiful game and remake. This is my favourite game ever now and I hope after all these years we finally get a worthy sequel.
I agree with you on a lot of things. But during battle I notice a lot of things that seem more flat than they used to be. I'm talking about animations. When you get a level up or a bingo during battle the animations were super flashy and in your face. And the sound effects really made those animations pop. But they've taken the kick out of a lot of those things. Same with when you're standing before the thousand year door. When the floor glows, the map glows and the whole world simmers for just a second before a background paper effect jumps out behind Mario. I always love watching that but they nerfed the feel of it.
@@RJS2003 Honestly I'm not smart enough to truly know 1:1 translation, I hear some people arguing that the OG translation makes vivian more of a girly femboy, I've heard arguments that it implies she's trans, IDRK but either way its still a bold move on Nintendo's part, especially for a mario game of all things. And even if she's just a femboy... I mean, a boy dressing up all girly and stuff is more "tolerable"? That also doesn't seem like something that THOSE individuals would be celebrating either, just seems like a desperate grab for straws/picking a "lesser evil" for them. As far as this version goes though (and I'm taking this one as being "definitive"), its blatantly obvious. Sure some crossdressers/femboys whatever may describe themselves with feminine terms, but I've never heard a sentence like "I realized I was their sister instead of their brother" from them before. It's a nice and still relatively subtle way of revealing it. Bottom line though is vivian is just great. It's not like she's a character purely made to push a message or appeal to diversity, she feels genuine and is just really likable. If people are hell bent on fighting over it that's on them, I just like the character at the end of the day and found this a really bonkers decision on Nintendo's part.
A trans character? 😂😂😂😂😂 And so many people said Mario was not "woke" so they wouldn't boycott it like other games. You just know some Christians gonna lose it when they find out. 😂
after waiting for this and getting my hopes and expectations up for SO many years, I am absolutely ecstatic that it is everything I hoped for and MORE. Fully re-secured as my favourite game of all time. 🥰
I will say the changes aren't all perfect, and teeeeeeeeechnically it's mostly a frame rate thing but not what you expect. It's not that Action Commands are annoying, not at all. They're just as easy to do, I can Superguard perfectly. But it's that the combat is less overall snappy. Sometimes you get a hitch in animation between turns so your menu takes longer to pop up, the menus take longer to transition because they want to weirdly accentuate every press with a harder sound like the newer games, so your menuing takes longer than it should which adds up fast. Also, with the stage hazards they give a lot more warning of when one is about to drop which tells you who's the target and...aesthetically that makes zero sense, it just serves to make it easier for you to dodge something about to hit you. I get they wanted that to not catch you fully off-guard *but the entire purpose of the audience is to catch you off-guard.* Why water down your own unique mechanic that no other games has ever done? And there's some quirks with old animations that are *less* detailed than the original. Like say the Fuzzy boss in Chapter 1. When you beat it and it and the group scatters outside the playable area, they actually faded into the lack of lighting beyond the playable zone like they were actually fading away. They don't fade away at all anymore, they're still perfectly lit and that kinda bothers me. So for every positive quality of life feature, there's a couple things I could equally nitpiick that also aren't that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. As such I don't think the remake 100% replaces the original, but it's definitely a good second playthrough for fans and easily recommendable to newcomers. Those item changes alone, *chef's kiss* I love it. Oh, and speaking of nitpicks, whoever made it so you can't button mash dialogue you "haven't seen yet" I wanna slap with a fish. Because that's stupid. IT'S A TEXT BOX, LET ME MASH if I don't wanna bother Besides, you gave me a Story reminder button with my partners, I can't just forget what I'm doing anymore! Hell you made it the same button as MegaMan Battle Network's help button so I extra can't forget that.
Honestly, the game warning you so much when the audience holds up an item has the same affect as the original game for me. Sometimes it makes me press x from reflex, and then I accidentally attack someone with a good item I even accidentally attacked luigi once lmao
I believe Yahtzees old praise holds true: changing the formula from grassland, forest, fire world, ice world to grassland, forest, WWE, Agatha Cristy novel was the right decision.
How funny would it be if he just uploads a review that's the same script as the old one but with new animations
Man yahtzee before was like the bomb, can wuote him for days.
I mean the first game fleshed out the known Mario universe and I love it for that. We now know that the average Mario desert is called Dry Dry Desert, it introduced Toad Town as the Mushroom Kingdom capital and stuff like that. And with all that being covered, the sequels go wild
Boggly Woods is honestly my favorite forest in any Mario game. The black and white is super aesthetic.
I can't believe they reused the Agatha Christie novel world idea IN THE SAME GAME! Nintendo is completely creatively bankrupt! Literally unplayable!
Something I really appreciated was that you can bonk every NPC in the game on the head with the hammer which I don’t remember being in the original game. That, and the fact that you have multiple directions you can swing your hammer now instead of just 2 is not to be slept on.
I LOVE being able to use the hammer in multiple directions. It is so nice and I bet its gonna be so weird to unlearn that when i play the original game again or 64
BIG fan of slamming every npc who bugs me over the head
Robbed me? SLAM SLAM SLAM SLAM
Made me go get another hot dog? SLAM SLAM SLAM SLAM SLAM
Insulted my hammer?? SLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAM
Bullied Vivian?????? *SLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAMSLAM*
@@via3600Not even that. Just the THUNK and the feedback is so satisfying. If they didn't want to turn me into a sociopathic destroyer of NPCs they shouldn't a made hitting them so fun lol
@TheQuashingoftheTub it's truly beautiful
This is the first playthrough I've actually used the sound effect badges which adds a whole new comical layer to it all, especially since I frequently accidentally hit b after dialogue
Like imagine you're an actual mafia mob boss and this random man somehow makes it to your headquarters, walks right up to you, and asks for an expensive blimp ticket
Impressed by the pure balls of the man to do such a thing, you send him on an errand to prove if he's worthy
and the SECOND you're done talking, he slams an entire hammer the same size as him onto the the floor and it makes a comical BOING sound
Also that's now how you check bushes instead of pressing A to ruffle them. It's snappier and more satisfying.
The partner wheel really saves time if youre trying to get to a partner for a puzzle, swap to another for combat, then back to another puzzle. Feels much smoother than opening and closing the menu constantly
Exactly! It makes playing the game smoother in my opinion
Not really. You can just press left on the d pad and switch to your preferred partner. It is definitely a bit easier to remember the partner ring combo though if you don't have the menu shortcuts memorised though.
I find myself wishing the wheel just had you point to fixed spots for each partner rather than making me scroll through it one at a time. Even multiple chapters in, I'm still switching to the wrong ones by mistake. It's a nice idea but in practice I don't feel it works
Maybe Arlo is just one of those "people who just like menus" that Goombella mentions on the way back to Petalburg from Shhwonk Fortress.
@@fuzzydude64 yeah a radial menu would be better I think
I have a copy of this to my sister as an early birthday gift and she was overjoyed, giving me multiple hugs and saying I’m the greatest brother ever! This game really is a definitive part of our childhoods.
That was very nice of you.
Me next
Yesssss slay
I just HAD to get this for my sis, too. TTYD was the first game she ever boight/preordered with her own money, and one of her faves. The remake literally came out on her Bday. It was fate lol
That's so wholesome, thanks for sharing.
That's awesome! Perfect gift 🎉
One thing I never noticed until now, is that, since they've added back sprites, I've noticed Ms. Mowz Naruto runs with her arms behind her back.
She is stealthy like a ninja I guess? Lol
She ran like that in the original too!(:
I more notice her little magical girl style pose right before she leaves.
She may be a lot of people's least favorite party member, but I gotta say, Mowz has got style. 💖
i was really taken off guard with the amount of love and care that went into this game. from the lighting, the animations, the soundtrack, the quality of life. i dont believe ive played a remake of a game in recent years that felt so damn perfect.
Yeah it feels perfect because they changed almost nothing. Would've loved some new bosses and content
There are new bosses@@justdaffy
Metroid Prime remake was absolutely peak
Only other games that get me a similar vibe are Super Mario RPG and Persona 3 Reload, both of which released in the past year.
"Almost nothing"
Censored cat calling goombella, changed vivians dialogue.
Damn I thought he would hate it
🤣
Why?
@@HypeVoiceActingYou^^^^ the joke
Lmao
@@secretlysakiwhat joke?????? It isn’t a joke it’s a dumb statement made by no facts on why he would he hate it
IMO the best thing about the remake is not the HD, it's the added poses for all the characters. They're so expressive now.
This! Goombella has so much character
I’m having so much fun looking at the new animations!! When I first noticed, I was like 😮! The extra touches are so special.
Yes, it gives them even much more personality. Really makes them feel less like NPCs and more like, well, people.
Especially the Puni Elder in her scenes and Grubba too
I know!! It's so simple and kind of small, but my favorite thing is the little faces that your partners make when you select them from the partner ring
I have to remember to look at the characters to see them emote instead of focusing on reading the text. This wasn’t an issue on the GCN, since no one ever emoted besides Mario, but it is a problem I welcome to have!
Goombella's celebratory jumping when something good happens is just the most adorable thing
Goombella is the best!
Indeed. The fact the developers managed to make a Goomba of all characters genuinely charming and adorable is still an amazing feat.
@@LuznoLindo goombers have always been adorable ackshooally
I want to make a note that wasn't mentioned here and that's a subtle but wonderful difference I noticed. I entered Hooktail Castle and entered my first battle only to realise the combat music had changed. It's still the same at its core, but it had changed pitch and key as if it were an entirely new track. I was in awe. I'm so hyped for the rest of the game!
Every area has its own twist on the battle music. You'll love it!
Now you'll have multiple, evolving versions of the Puni march to get stuck in your head.
The game encompasses the very spirit of Arlo. Arlo's very first video that put this channel on the UA-cam map was about Paper Mario, and now we are literally listening to Arlo gushing over TTYD on a modern gaming engine! We are living in a brand new era, and we'll be following you every step of the way, Arlo!!!🥳🎉
And after both Metroid Prime Remake AND Pikmin 4. The last year was spectacular for Arlo lmao
@@drnanard9605 It's Arlo's world, we're just living in it.
A 20 year old game running at 30fps when it ran at 60fps back then is unacceptable, and dude its 60€. Thats ridiculous.
@awildmoose6541 Ho Ho Ho! Meeerrry Christmassss 🎅🎅🎅🧑🎄 The gamecube game wasn't running lighting and reflections and shadows and any of that Start growing your brain today! For only 2.99
@@awildmoose6541 ok but does it need to run at 60? It's a turn by turn RPG, it's slow. Also, this is a brand new game, not just a port. And 60 bucks for one of the greatest game ever made is not indecent.
Arlo's been waiting so long for this, many of us have. One could say we partially have him to thank for this. And I'm so happy the wait was worth it. And I'm glad I can finally play it.
Same. I'm happy for him.
“Is this remake the pinnacle of Mario’s roleplaying experiences? Or is it a Thousand Year Snore? Letstalkaboutit WOOOSH!”
thousand year BOREEEEE
"Or is it a thousand year chore to complete?
... Hey, do you need a website?"
Good mythical morning
Will it open the door to a thousand years of fun? Or is the experience paper thin? Whoosh
Does this remake open the *door* to classic Paper Mario, or is it a *thousand* *years* old?
There’s also a 1 coin badge in the badge shop to play the original background music, so good 😊
I'm just hoping Nintendo acknowledges Toadsworth more... I miss the ol' chap.
He was in Mario Party 7.. then like fell offthe world.. did we forget him on the cruise?
he's in the game.
Toadsworth William Toadster passed away on the 28th of November, 2006 after a month long battle with terminal 7. He was surrounded. Bye loved ones!
I like to think the Chancellor from SMRPG is him. Like, his precursor in a way.
He also appears in Super Mario Sunshine
I'm loving it too, but there is one nitpick I have that I'm surprised you didn't mention, and it's that unlike the original, you can't skip through dialog that you haven't seen before in each save file. This means whenever you're forced into a tutorial for something you're fully familiar with, you can't just mash B and get to the end, you have to deal with the entire conversation. It's not game breaking, but it is mildly annoying.
Another similar issue, is that enemies wait for the star power meter to finish animating before they attack
the menu traversal in battle also feels really slow, like going from Jump -> Hammer -> Item. it feels kinda bad.
@@deanmoriarty6015 Yeah, the whole combat is slower. Bit of a shame. I'm going to enjoy the remake and I'm glad to spend the money, but tbh I will probably go back to the gamecube version afterwards.
Honestly, I was a bit annoyed at first, but the dialogue is just fast enough that it doesn't bother me. It runs at the perfect reading speed for me. Maybe the teeniest bit too slow. But, outside of more modern Pokemon games, tutorials have never really diminished my enjoyment.
@@SirFlopsyHonestly, I thought that happened in the original, too. It doesn't feel much slower than the original, but there's also a little more visual feedback to communicate what happens, so it might just depend on the person?
I used to play Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door a ton throughout the years, even recently, so I can confirm a few things with the items and badges in the original;
1. Enemies actually hold items fairly commonly in the original. Sometimes you won't see it much, but other times it actually happens quite a bit in the original too.
2. The stuff with enemies getting the effects of badges and holding them in battle was in the original too. Badges were a lot rarer to see them hold, especially with certain badges, but I probably see a dozen or so different enemies in every playthrough I do that end up holding some kind of badge, even when just regularly playing the game.
Sadly I can't afford to get the remake yet, but it really does look absolutely amazing! I still can't believe we finally have a remake of Thousand Year Door after all of these years, and I can't believe its just as amazing as ever, possibly even better!
Thanks for taking a bit of your time to read this, I hope everyone here has a great day!
I really appreciate the new character animations, unique voice chatter for each character and the different musical motifs depending on the areas you’re in.
I’m only a few chapters in and boy was it worth the wait. I truly see why this game is so beloved. The dialogue is so witty, tons of charm, fun as hell battle system. Everything has been a complete joy so far.
The battle system sucks, it's just too easy.
@@chaostes4997Idk what you were expecting honestly? Lol that’s every Mario game and compared to Origami King this is leagues better. The parter abilities plus badges make battling way more fun, and that’s all that matters.
@@chaostes4997 double pain + unsimplifyer, that should help with your difficulty struggle
@@chaostes4997 I believe this is one of those games where you're allowed to make it as difficult as you want, just slap on whatever badges you desire and there you go. So I must ask: Why are you actively making combat _less_ difficult for yourself and then saying the battle system sucks when you're willingly choosing to play the game how you are?
If you're looking for battle systems that suck play Sticker Star, play Colour Splash, play The Origami King. It's their way or the high way, no choice, no strategy, no incentive really. I could go on but it's all been said before.
It's even more witty in the original. Obviously this is a great remake and I'm glad to buy it...but a few things were toned down to keep it more Rated E...also a few other lines are just absent...for no apparent reason. But besides, from that it's great. 30fps also is a shame but isn't a huge lost.
This game makes me feel so strange because... It's new but I've played it and I feel like I know the ins and outs of it already even though I played the original more than 15 years ago. I was immediately doing flips with the hammers and super guards on the first enemies like I was picking up riding a bike again.
I really like this game a lot but I really hope this leads to a sequel in its style that is truly new because this is great and I want more.
I would like this style with Origami battle tho...
Origami battle is more creative imo..
Once again, you've summed up what I was trying to tell someone.
I've never really played a remake that was so similar to the original game, yet felt new???? It's fantastic.
do you mean *"what* I was trying to tell someone"?
As someone that’s on Chapter 7 and has played through the original numerous times:
-Some of the QoL added has been very nice, even if not all are ultra useful to me in particular
-30 fps IS noticeable and has specifically increased guard/super guard timings
-Not being able to mash through text and the text speed being generally slow has made a lot of the intermission/lore sections feel VERY sluggish. No joke you will be pressing a or b for over 5 minutes simply because each text box has to fully complete before the next can slowly start up. It’s going to add like an hour to the glitchless speedruns
-The 15 item inventory QoL loses a lot of value when you realize the strange sack on floor 50 of the pit now only gives 5 more inventory slots to match the total 20 you’d have after getting it in the original. Kinda lowers the excitement when you only increase your inventory by 33% instead of 100%
-As a long time player it’s a bit sad that every star piece/shine Sprite/item /badge is in the exact same spot. There’s not really any new discovery aspect for us other than some minor things
-Some very fun/neat animations, my personal new favorite being when using Flurrie’s gale on the Punis midfight with the Jabbis. Def use her in there to see what I mean
-The First Attack badge being swapped from a 1bp to a 0bp cost, essentially turning it from a choice to use it to a QoL, is very welcome
-Yoshi having an acceleration buildup at the start when riding him…why?
-Goombella now having a button to press to have her tip you off to what you’re supposed to be doing next in the story is very cool for newer players. I can definitely see that being helpful in some of the more convoluted sections like the train cabins
Probably more but can’t think off the top of my head. All in all glad to play it and I’m enjoying it but there are definitely some things (mostly the text speed) I’d like to see get patched to help turn this into the remaster we deserve
"-Yoshi having an acceleration buildup at the start when riding him…why?" I'm not there yet but this sounds annoying.
Also did you notice the timing on Koops first attack is a bit too difficult to hit?
@@travv88 it’s a decently minor buildup but every time you get on it does start to add up. With that said you can now directly enter sideways pipes/doors without having to manually get off Yoshi yourself now. You can press A next to a door while riding and you’ll automatically get off and go through so that is a nice QoL Yoshi-wise
Also yeah, Koops is a tad more precise now for sure
@@CaelenSawyers I'm not sure if Nintendo is able to amend these types of things with an update?
I'm also finding Flurry's first attack a bit finnicky.
I heard there were some weird localization choices
@@joshjo9405 yes there were
I can’t wait to play this game. I grew up playing the original but never got too far into it on account of me being a dumb child. Now I that I’m older I can finally finish it
Lmao same
I could only beat it with a guide as a child. It's a really fun game to replay.
I didn’t get the badge system as a kid and would only ever level up my HP. I think I made it to the last world but I never fully beat the game
I plugged away at it for _years,_ restarting file after file, and only beat it once. It's one of the only video games to this day whose ending made me cry.
Bro that's exactly how it was with me and the OoT/MM remakes, if my experience with those is telling of anything you're gonna love it
Even this glowing review doesn't highlight just how incredible this game is. One crazy thing about it is that the weirdness isn't there for ghe express purpose of being weird it's genuine world-building and foreshadowing. That symbol graffitied everywhere probably leads to an optional boss, there's a secret related to "x" organization, one of the people you encountered is now in your quest way down the line everything about this game is a masterpiece
I have been going around hammering every unique character to see the animation they do and I love it. it reminds me of spraying every Pianta I saw in Sunshine the first time I played it. So far I am absolutely just as enamored with the remaster as I was with the original all those years ago.
"The lower framerate is noticeable, and the text moves slower" are so far the only criticisms I can give about the remake. I still have my copy of the original, but I'm having a hard time justifying playing that version again instead of the new one.
The majority of us can hardly identify a frame rate when we see it.
@@videogollumer I usually can't, but it really is noticeable in this game. Background objects appear to jitter across the screen when it scrolls, and that has hurt my eyes. I still love and recommend this remake, but yeah the frame rate has been a problem.
@@videogollumer You definitely can, everyone can. The jump from 30 to 60 is jarringly obvious after 30 seconds of actually paying attention, but it's very true in this game due to the paper aesthetic and the Switch's poor aliasing that would helped smooth that out, even if it stayed 30. There's not a lot of extrapolating frames to go around, and the paper backing gets smeared due to the way sprites have to be drawn. Blocking and super-guarding is a muscle-memory nightmare due to the cut, at least it feels like that.
@@Valanway Pinocchio called; he wants his nose back. 🤥
I don’t notice either I guess I don’t have the eyes to notice frame rates lol
Paper Mario came into such a different time of my life. I actually got it the year it came out for Christmas, I’ll never forget the joy my heart overfilled with hearing the menu’s main theme. It was one of my favorite games growing up, I had a cousin who I competed with who can beat it first, he did but unfortunately I’ve yet to beat paper Mario TTYD. So I’m thinking next week, I’m going to buy a switch and paper Mario and finally beat this game once and for all.
My wife looooved Origami King. It was her first and only paper Mario game. I’ve talked to her before about how paper Mario used to be better and such but she liked TOK a lot so she disregarded my comments. I showed her this remake but never told her it was a remake. She started playing today still thinking it’s a new game (Nintendo’s marketing ploy worked) and it is fascinating to watch her play it through that lense. If she knew it was an old game remade she might have an aversion to it due to me bad mouthing one of her fav games ever 😅 So im going to watch her play through the entire thing without knowing.
I’d be interested to hear her thoughts on it, before and after she learns it’s a remake. Although, the game might spoil that for her itself, it does say “(c) 2004” on the main menu.
@@JackSears95 oh lol I didn’t know about the menu date xD we’ll see if/when she notices
That's kind of funny glad you guys are enjoying it though
This is truly one of the most embarrassing and cringiest things I’ve ever read. Heaven forbid she loved the game and didn’t get brain rot from you thinking she was wrong. You’re an asshole gatekeeper. Gross.
Any update on her reception of the game??
Been watching a relative play the game, and there are some UX problems that weren't in the original:
- Can't insta-skip dialogue by pressing B!
- Before an enemy is starting it's attack, it waits for the star power meter to finish animating!
These add extra waiting time and doesn't feel good.
That said, everything else is pretty great. You can even skip cooking. Shame about the 60FPS, Hope they can optimize it, maybe for support on a next-gen console.
It's less about optimization and more about power. Mario RPG really struggled to keep 60fps on Switch, so they went for a different solution this time focusing on consistent reduced frame time latency. I imagine in the future both will get backwards compatibly patches as it's not the hardest thing to do it they are using the solution I suspect
Fun fact! Marza Animation Planet (the team that does the CGI cutscenes for Sonic games) handled the lighting in the TTYD remake! (They also did the lighting for TOK, but imo TTYD's lighting is even better!)
Origami King was probably a test to see if the lighting works in a paper mario game, ttyd remake 100 percent perfected it
The only complaint I have is that the text goes too slow, in the original you could press ‘B’ to speed it up/make it all appear and advance it, they took that feature out for some reason and it makes the game feel so much slower, probably not a problem you’d notice when streaming it, but playing on your own it’s fairly annoying.
I was honestly looking forward to what speedrunners would do with the remake but something like this will make it significantly slower than just running the original even after they get a chance to see what glitches still work and if there are new ones to exploit.
Oh that seems like a very notable oversight, as if Im not remember wrong you can Skip text faster on Origami King?
Hope they patch that out.
That's one of the best features introduced by Paper Mario that I never understood why Nintendo didn't put in every game like all Zelda games.
Every RPG / story-focused game should have that, and I'm saying it as someone who DOES make sure to read ALL dialogue whenever I play something I like for the first time.
There's also that thing where you have to wait for Star Power regeneration between the Player and Enemy phases. That really slows things down.
It's not an big deal by any means. It's just if you prefer to speedrun the game and not care about the dialog, than your not gonna get much here. But if your like me who doesn't speedrun and reading the dialog on what's happening and what to do or where to go, than sometimes it's best to read it to understand before rushing it.
there was one moment when the crows in the spooky town were talking about "oh no we're going to run out of fossil fuels" and i had... completely forgotten that "peak oil" was something we cared deeply about in 2004. the issue wasn't "we need to stop burning oil at all costs", it was "what can we burn if there's no more oil?" thanks paper mario for that trip to a more innocent time
I would love if they made a Paper Luigi to detail all of the things that Luigi was up to & telling you stories about during the course of this game. You can tell the splatoon/animal crossing team handled this remake based on the music and the environmental details
These are nitpicks but has anyone noticed certain sound effects are missing like slots in battle and audience cries
The lack of the slots sounds is very noticable. I can understand if they had to remove them for a gambling connection, but there should've been something more distinctive.
I’m fairly certain they are there they’re just drowned out by the music. I’m fairly certain I could hear the spinia’s wind up attack and the audience members scream from being attacked.
@@jmaldonado790 yeah I switched to the original soundtrack and slots became easier to hear but it’s a ticking sound now. I think some of the sound effect have just been changed/updated from the original game.
Arlo is the spiritual embodiment of precisely how I feel about the game. It was my childhood and I'm loving every detail of revisiting the remade and remastered version; they've filled it with even more love and care than the first version. ITS SO GOOD AAAH
As someone who has never played a paper Mario before I’m having the best time with ttyd. I’m not sure what I enjoy the most but the story and characters are so charming and well written thanks for selling me on this Arlo :)
Watching your live of TTYD, Arlo playing the game that I’ve loved so so much since I was young and with your love and appreciation of the game as well was just the absolute highlight of my month. It really made me happy and let me feel giddy excitement over something so small. The last few months have been really tough and that live was the place and catalyst for me to feel really happy and grateful and be in a much better place. So thank you.
Keep the streams comin arlo, loving them!
I just want to say thank you Arlo. I’ve heard you praise this game for years and I gave it a shot on day one. I absolutely love it. Never would’ve given it a try without you. Thank you so much!
I'm super happy that they restored a major part of Vivian's backstory which had been censored in the original US release.
It was censored in all English and German regions
Yeah because gender dysphoria is cool to praise now meanwhile they censor Goombella standing up for herself against some brutish Goombas. Stunning.
You mean changed
Same! I can hardly wait to finally play it for myself!
"I feel really happy when you call me your sister" 😭💔
Something I've really come to appreciate is something similar they did in the RPG remake, variant/dynamic themes in battles. When you're thinking in battle, the music changes in TTYD. And I didn't notice it at first until I got to Cortex and was like 'Wait.. WAIT THE MUSIC CHANGED!?'
I.. I love this so much.
You should def check out Glitz pit. Each cast has a neat expression for every fight, very neat to view through in the ranking ladder!
I was wondering about how peoplw view the glitz pit. A huge highlight of TTYD
I love how whenever a battle starts, (When neither Mario or the enemy is the first to strike) the stage has some paper props in the background that pop up. It's a small detail, but it makes me love the remake even more for embracing It's Pop-Up Book ascetic.
My Gamestop Preorder with the Gamecube Cover sleeve came in today! So excited to play this adventure again!
So wonderful that they changed so much about it for the better. I'm still shocked it's a full remake and not just a port. A port would've been so easy, but they went the extra mile.
As a newer Paper Mario fan, I love this game. Origami King was my first Paper Mario game, and I wasn’t a big fan of the game outside of the boss battles. I’ve since played a bit of Paper Mario 64 and I absolutely love what I played. I know how special this game is to so many people, and I can see why. This game is incredible!
Each character making their own little noises when they speak is easily my favorite new addition, it’s so charming
It’s very much living up to the hype. Just..the amount of weird jokes they make and the strange tonal shifts…it’s amazing. Definitely gonna be one of my favorite games..
One thing that I found out in my playthrough is that the Strange Sack (the reward on Floor 50 of the Pit of 100 Trials) increases the amount of items you can hold from 15 to 20.
Which is a bit odd to me since it was originally 10 to 20 on the GameCube, so I thought, with the increase in the base item limit, they would double the amount as they did (So 30 items).
Guess I was wrong, but hey more item slots are more item slots.
i did the first 50 floors between chapter 2 & 3 specifically because i was expecting it to be 30 items as well lmao. when i saw it was still only 20 i was like damn i would’ve saved this for much later in the game if i knew it was only gonna give me 5 more items
The best part about remaking it is simply because it is making it more accessible. I never got to play the original one, but now that it’s in the switch I’ve been having the time of my life playing it and I’m sure there’s other people who experienced the same
Fr though, sometimes you don’t want to play on an emulator or fork out $100+ to play the game. It’s nice to finally have it available again.
Dolphin is "easy" to set up.. but I shouldnt have ti watch youtube videos when i got a express bag of money to give to n10doe.
Also there was a guy arguing to "just get a gamecube disk and play it on a wii." Like.. breh.
Paper Mario and Paper Mario TTYD were my first ever JRPGs before I knew what those were and it also lowkey made me think I love Mario more than I actually did. These games make the world of Mario feel so alive compared to others
Yep. Both 64 & TTYD are so good. Hopefully the next title will go back to how the first 2 Paper Mario games works.
I gotta say that I really do love how much The Origami King just bleeds right into this remake of TTYD! From the suped up ost of the classic tracks to the brand new tracks made just for this remake and even some charming bits like how Bowser's theme from Origami King kinda peaks into Bowser's theme in this game. The wonderful artstyle, how positively pleasant the game look from the beautiful artistic value of the paper-crafted artsyle or how expressive the characters can be. The sound design, like the sound effects sound like TOK's take on TTYD's sfx.
Overall this new era of modern Paper Mario on the Switch is just a beautifully bright future!!
I had goosebumps when I started the game up! I played this game soo many times as a kid and havent for a decade. It felt like bumping into your childhood best friend as an adult!❤
This game is so fun you guys! I have a feeling I'm going to beat it over the weekend that's how much I am loving it. However, if I did have to throw ONE, just one bit of criticism towards the remake though. The nostalgic tunes badge feels like false advertising. It switches some of the new tracks back to the gamecube ones...but not ALL of them. Without going into spoilers of course, there's an intense moment towards the end of chapter 2 where you are forced to listen to the new track, no matter if you have the nostalgic tunes badge on and that new track, to me anyway, is inferior to the original. When it comes to new character themes, that's totally different and I welcome that change! But things like not being able to listen to the old partner tutorial track, for example, does bug me as again. I liked that track better then the new one and as far as I know, there is no way to change it back. Is anyone else annoyed by this or am I being a grouchy old man?
i personally dont use the old tracks but that sounds really annoying hope they fix it
I feel that way about the sound effects! The soundtrack badge only changes the music, not the sounds, and although it's admirable that every character now has their own unique 'voice', none of them are as satisfying as the original voice chip sound. Plus the battle UI feels so much different without all the original sound effects (I'm looking at you, Earth Tremor)
I left off playing right before the Hooktail fight, and my favorite feature so far is the additional sprites to make the characters more expressive. My second favorite new feature is the Star Piece and Shine Sprite completion percentage for each area listed on the Map. I can't wait to check out Boggly Woods, because that was always my favorite area aesthetically in the original.
Arlo, are you kidding? The partner wheel is probably my favorite QoL addition so far! Especially because I often change to Goombella for tattling. It's very convenient and saves quite a bit of time in the long run, plus it's less tedious
It saves a very very small fraction of a second from using the D Pad to scroll through the exact same wheel. I think what Arlo was expecting was a more modern wheel like in Tears of the Kingdom. One where characters are tied to specific directions so selection is snappy and you aren't having to scroll.
Honestly I don’t know if it’s just my bad eyes but everything but the characters look so good I think they could have been real life sets which they have then just added computer made characters onto. I actually think this is the best looking switch game in terms of what it’s going for that I have played, loving it!
Dammit! Fine! I'll head out tomorrow and buy it.
The partner wheel is nice. It’s way less annoying to not have to open a menu everytime you switch characters. It keeps you in the game more.
Can I just say I'm kind of surprised how quiet Nintendo has been about this game? Not in terms of marketing...I've seen several trailers and bits here and there. I mean more in the sense that...the last few games before release we've had interviews with Intelligent Systems talking about making the game and how things got to where they are now. I think this is the first Paper Mario game since Super where we know very little about the production of the game. Like I'm so excited to finally have this, but why now? What changed? I've heard alot of the Origami King team worked on this, but they've been so very quiet about this and I'm curious as to why.
I think they knew how much this would mean to the fans so they wanted to keep it as much of a surprise as possible
Like even Origami King had alot of press interviews talking about the game but they've been radio silent regarding production.
@@eraldmurati7697 What do you mean?
well tbf there's not much to say development wise. it's a remake of a game that we all already know, what would the devs have to say?
@epicgamerzfail4575 I mean, there are definitely things to talk about. Making the game on new hardware. Thought process for some if any changes they made. Whether or not this is a test for future games. Why they made this immediately after Origami King
Edit: Admittedly Nintendo hasn't been talking about the making of their games alot recently. I think the last game they talked about development was...I want to say Tears of the Kingdom
Also Goombella is frickin awesome. We need partners again!!!
All these years, hearing Thousand-Year Door music in your videos, and you finally get to play it in a video _about_ Thousand-Year Door!
I only just started this game and it’s so fun! You can really tell how much love was put into it
It's been a blast so fast playing alongside Arlo!
1:04 Actually, in the code of the game, people have found evidence of 4K support in the works. This is the first switch game to have this, so it leans heavily towards the idea of the Switch 2 having 4K support.
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Your hangup with the partner wheel is so bizarre, dog. It absolutely saves time and is super useful.
it's useful but for some reason the animations for opening/switching/closing take a ton of time and do not feel that much faster in the end (it's a thing in general in this game, animations in menus take a lot of time, see: little delay when you select options in battle)
@@Temulgeh Yes, the menus are a bit sluggish. But come on. The wheel is absolutely faster.
Using the d-pad in the original was hardly any slower.
It's really no diffrent than using the D Pad. A more modern wheel would have assigned characters to specific directional inputs, instead of cycling through the exact same rotation that's found in the menu.
The last time i played TTYD was like ten years ago, so playing it again as an adult made me realise how funny the writing is
The crows talking about realistic human things in chapter 4 made me laugb so hard lmao
I have waited over 5 years to play this game. And now that I have it...
I THINK THIS IS MY NEW FAVORITE GAME OF ALL TIME.
Genuinely one of the greatest remakes to have ever been re-made. Every single NPC having brand new sprites and animations is absolutely incredible
The button mapping thing is a little annoying. Can't count the amount of times I've tried to "strike first" on an enemy with the hammer, only to fail cause my mind keeps expecting it to be the Y button. The inability to skip cut-scenes or a speed-up option for the dialog is also weirdly absent. I feel like those are standard features for games this day and age.
Yeah, the removal of the ability to mash through text, coupled with the removal of the ability to scroll back through text, is putting a bit of a damper on an otherwise perfect experience. Also the battle menus are a bit sluggish too. Don’t like how you have to wait for your stars to fill the meter before continuing the fight and how there’s a slight delay when selecting, like, jump and then trying to select which jump you’d like to use from the submenu. Bit worried that these won’t be patched because apparently Sticker Star, Color Splash, and TOK all didn’t let you skip through text or cutscenes.
Those never have been standards on Nintendo games lol if anything the standard on Nintendo games is to not give options
I mean, the B button is the action button in every Nintendo games. Kirby inhales with B, Samus fires with B, Mario throws Cappy with B, etc. It was like that even on the GameCube.
@@drnanard9605 Except Zelda and Donkey Kong. Y is the attack button in those.
@@thelastwindwaker7948 depends. BotW and TotK, yes, but that's because of the sprint button. In Link's Awakening, it's B. As for DKC, it's because of how you need to press both buttons at the same time, which is easier with Y and B than with B and A.
It’s awesome to see all of the characters again in this remake! Just got my copy at last and I’m in chapter 1 and I’m loving it! So far
Half the frame rate half the fun! Just kidding, already got my copy but gonna finish Unicorn Overlord before diving in. Only so much mind space for these games at a time.
Still playing UO myself. Its crazy addicting
loving the game so far! this is my first time. and honestly while the 30fps is noticeable, i adjusted to it very quickly. but i do also hope for a next-gen patch that gives us higher resolutions!
Something I didn’t see Arlo mention is that the function to scroll dialogue is missing. There are funny bits that I accidentally missed in chapter 1. I largely agree and *adore* the life changes they included, and won’t spoil a specific element that improves enemy encounters, but man oh man do I miss the scrolling feature. Guess I took that one thing for granted 😅
Wait, what was the QoL that improves enemy encounters? Only thing I've noticed from what I've seen so far is no coin loss and easier escapes.
@@arandomperson12345 Sorry but in fear of spoiling, I’d rather not say. This QoL is optional though
The game is so well writen and it has a great story. So why on earth would anybody skip such a great story. The writting and the story is the reason why the game is so great.
@@alexh7513 I didn’t mean to skip. I just have ADHD and will normally do a double take on things I have read, but totally agreed, the writing is fantastic 😊
Thank you, Arlo ❤you’re a big reason this is here, and I’ve spent the last two days feeling like a kid again. Thank you.
I still get the perfect timings just fine. The 60 fps to 30 fps change didn't affect my timing like I thought it might. It has been many years since I played the original though, so I don't have immediate whiplash from the potential timing.
There is one thing I don't think I'll be able to tolerate in further repeat playthroughs and that's the fact you can't press a mid dialogue to make all the text pop up so I can just skip through the text. like it's kinda nice to be given a pace to read at, but when I'm just going for gameplay in my next playthrough, the slow text is gonna be obnoxious. It feels like something they could patch, but I also don't think this is a game they'll patch at all. The time savers this game gives feel like they get immediately removed by the forced dialogue scroll and I really don't understand why they took away the ability to skip through, it makes an extremely replayable game so much less replayable. I'm not sure if I'm just remembering it wrong, but the time between actions feels longer too, like it's waiting for all the Star Points to fly into the bar when it didn't before, but it's definitely not as noticeable as the dialogue if it even is different. For context, I love (or feel neutral) almost if not all other changes the remake made. But it makes the quality of life feel like it's just giving you the time you lost from all these other things taking slightly longer constantly and I'll probably just end up going back to gamecube for future playthroughs unless people make mods for the game that "fix it" which I really don't think I should have to do
The tattle check is great. Rechecking an enemies defense bc I keep forgetting it is just a good thing
I already know it’s glorious, not only because I’ve already played the GameCube version, but because you would never shut up about it.
Seriously I’ve been watching since I started high school, and I’m on college now you’ve made perfectly clear how much you love this game (still no Big Fat Review).
Exhibition matches in the Glitz Pit is the greatest addition that I didn’t even know I wanted.
The changed writing are
.Add tutorial moments
. Goomba catcalling in sewers replaced hero insulting
. Hooktails weakness back to frog
. Vivian's storyline was sugarcoated in both past versions, now it is bluntly stated.
That is all i know so far
I've noticed some more minor ones, be warned I've played up through almost the start of Chapter 5 so beware of minor spoilers??
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Merlee calls herself a 'charming charmer' instead of a fortuneteller (likely to distinguish herself from Merluvlee).
Merlon says "Return someday!" or something instead of "Then you may go." when he's done upgrading your partners.
Jerry Bomb now no longer fears the sight of Luigi in a dress and gets toxically masculine about it, now he only fears the collateral damage of Luigi wearing heels.
Hooktail is now properly gendered with she/her pronouns by every single person who refers to her.
Koops no longer says "We thought your game was over!" when reuniting with his dad, he doesn't even allude to death directly at all in that scene. Which is weird because in other spots the game has no problem mentioning death.
The Jabbi tribe are more explicitly Working With The X-Nauts rather than just taking advantage of the chaos to expand their territory.
And of course, the game says Cleared after every boss, and not End Of Chapter.
@@tatltails3923 the hooktail one on one hand is weird to me, I mean I get it, she is female but in the og game the only reason the koopas thought otherwise was because they didn't get to interact in a way with her to learn it, not because they were being rude or w.e like they just saw a giant red thing flying over the town and occasionally swooping down to grab some koopas to eat, like I think it was a neat little twist in the OG we don't get anymore
@@supershot9729 It definitely threw me off to see all the Petalburg dialogue be the same except for the pronouns, and I agree it was fun to have a reveal, but I see why they changed it. If they're going to stick to their guns on gender inclusivity, they don't want to leave any gaps for people to go "but you didn't care about Hooktail's pronouns, why'd you have to get woke with Vivian, wah wah wah"
Meanwhile Mario and Luigi be like: "yo, we disguised Luigi as Peach how many times?"
They removed the line about flurrie's "stage presence" from her tutorial too
I've never played it before and really love it so far! I'm a dialogue/cutscene skipper but TTYD does them with such charming humor that I've stayed engaged.
The OST is utterly amazing
I love Mario’s new Charlie Brown expression where he’s looking straight up 😂
i wasnt breathing when the game first came out so being able to play this mythical game of legend passed down from generation to generation is neat
I’m glad you learned to breathe, it’s a good skill to have
I thought complaints about turn-based RPGs running at 30 fps was weird 20 years ago, and I still think so today.
I won't be able to play TTYD myself for a while, but everything looks nice and smooth in the video footage, anyway.
I wish the audience still made noises. Battles feel kind of empty without the cheering and screaming
I feel the opposite, I hated those children cheering in the original. I guess they could’ve redone them to sound more “grown up” but I don’t mind that they’re gone entirely
Two things I’ve noticed:
First, you don’t interact with bushes with an A press anymore, you whack it with your hammer. I went all the way back to town to get a POW block for the second Schwonks fortress fight and the whole way I was like “I FEEL like there was a POW block somewhere on this path, but WHERE??” It was almost certainly in a bush and I didn’t think to whack it. I only realized you whack bushes late in chapter 2…
Second, it’s nice that you don’t have to chase after everything you pop out of a bush or item block. Used to be as soon as an item fell on the ground you’d have to run after the little bastard, but now it falls neatly and predictably in front of where you free it from. Very nice touch!!
Arlo's love is absolutely gushing!!
7:18 I agree with this, and it managed to catch me off guard once in Chapter 2. I had an X-Naut show up in a battle holding an hp plus badge, and just before I could see that, I first saw and freaked out for a moment about it having 9 health at the start of the fight. Of course, it was a simple fight and the badge hardly changed a thing, but I never knew that was a badge enemies could hold. It a was a fun new experience that surprised me.
My only real complaint about the game is that it feels laggy when in the combat menu, like if I click on attack it doesn’t immediately go into choose a target
you're right, those reflections look gorgeous
the layered look is really nice
this looks like a remake that is very well done. The classic paper marios were good stuff, I'm glad it gets some new life breathed into it
In terms of the writing: some of the more adult jokes seem to be omitted and I think it’s to keep it E rather than E10.
One nice change though was they are referencing Hooktail with “she” rather than “he” like they did in the og. I remember as a kid it threw me off when later on in the game they refer to Hooktail as a sister dragon when up to that point Hooktail was “he”. Which I think was just a translation issue at the time.
Man I played this game for the first time on release day after hearing your and other peoples praises and a lot of Let's Plays and I'm officially in love now. What a beautiful game and remake. This is my favourite game ever now and I hope after all these years we finally get a worthy sequel.
I cant wait for the 4 hour review in 6 months
Don’t hold your breath, we’re still waiting on an definitive pikmin 4 review
@@JackSears95 and tears of the kingdom
I agree with you on a lot of things. But during battle I notice a lot of things that seem more flat than they used to be. I'm talking about animations. When you get a level up or a bingo during battle the animations were super flashy and in your face. And the sound effects really made those animations pop. But they've taken the kick out of a lot of those things.
Same with when you're standing before the thousand year door. When the floor glows, the map glows and the whole world simmers for just a second before a background paper effect jumps out behind Mario. I always love watching that but they nerfed the feel of it.
Compared to most mario switch games which all use the exact same transparent ui that's built into the system itself, this game is pretty flashy.
I'm still very, VERY surprised they committed to Vivian's story. Figured they'd just rewrite that part entirely but nah, they committed to the bit.
@@RJS2003 Honestly I'm not smart enough to truly know 1:1 translation, I hear some people arguing that the OG translation makes vivian more of a girly femboy, I've heard arguments that it implies she's trans, IDRK but either way its still a bold move on Nintendo's part, especially for a mario game of all things. And even if she's just a femboy... I mean, a boy dressing up all girly and stuff is more "tolerable"? That also doesn't seem like something that THOSE individuals would be celebrating either, just seems like a desperate grab for straws/picking a "lesser evil" for them.
As far as this version goes though (and I'm taking this one as being "definitive"), its blatantly obvious. Sure some crossdressers/femboys whatever may describe themselves with feminine terms, but I've never heard a sentence like "I realized I was their sister instead of their brother" from them before. It's a nice and still relatively subtle way of revealing it.
Bottom line though is vivian is just great. It's not like she's a character purely made to push a message or appeal to diversity, she feels genuine and is just really likable. If people are hell bent on fighting over it that's on them, I just like the character at the end of the day and found this a really bonkers decision on Nintendo's part.
I think there'd be a somewhat vocal outcry if they didn't, kinda like with Tomodachi life not having same sex couples.
@@darcidious99it’s not lesser of two evils, it’s to point out that the localizers weren’t focused on authenticity, but rather their politics
A trans character? 😂😂😂😂😂 And so many people said Mario was not "woke" so they wouldn't boycott it like other games. You just know some Christians gonna lose it when they find out. 😂
after waiting for this and getting my hopes and expectations up for SO many years, I am absolutely ecstatic that it is everything I hoped for and MORE. Fully re-secured as my favourite game of all time. 🥰
I will say the changes aren't all perfect, and teeeeeeeeechnically it's mostly a frame rate thing but not what you expect.
It's not that Action Commands are annoying, not at all. They're just as easy to do, I can Superguard perfectly.
But it's that the combat is less overall snappy. Sometimes you get a hitch in animation between turns so your menu takes longer to pop up, the menus take longer to transition because they want to weirdly accentuate every press with a harder sound like the newer games, so your menuing takes longer than it should which adds up fast. Also, with the stage hazards they give a lot more warning of when one is about to drop which tells you who's the target and...aesthetically that makes zero sense, it just serves to make it easier for you to dodge something about to hit you. I get they wanted that to not catch you fully off-guard *but the entire purpose of the audience is to catch you off-guard.* Why water down your own unique mechanic that no other games has ever done?
And there's some quirks with old animations that are *less* detailed than the original. Like say the Fuzzy boss in Chapter 1. When you beat it and it and the group scatters outside the playable area, they actually faded into the lack of lighting beyond the playable zone like they were actually fading away. They don't fade away at all anymore, they're still perfectly lit and that kinda bothers me.
So for every positive quality of life feature, there's a couple things I could equally nitpiick that also aren't that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. As such I don't think the remake 100% replaces the original, but it's definitely a good second playthrough for fans and easily recommendable to newcomers.
Those item changes alone, *chef's kiss* I love it.
Oh, and speaking of nitpicks, whoever made it so you can't button mash dialogue you "haven't seen yet" I wanna slap with a fish. Because that's stupid. IT'S A TEXT BOX, LET ME MASH if I don't wanna bother Besides, you gave me a Story reminder button with my partners, I can't just forget what I'm doing anymore! Hell you made it the same button as MegaMan Battle Network's help button so I extra can't forget that.
Honestly, the game warning you so much when the audience holds up an item has the same affect as the original game for me. Sometimes it makes me press x from reflex, and then I accidentally attack someone with a good item
I even accidentally attacked luigi once lmao