What We Thought of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door in 2004 - NWR Time Capsule
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- Опубліковано 2 кві 2024
- Journey back with us 20 years to 2004 and the launch of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door! #papermariothethousandyeardoor #papermario #gamecube
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This was the only Mario to have so much adult jokes that I’m surprised it wasn’t rated E10+ for the remake
New subscriber here. I gotta tell ya'll something, do you know when you come across a channel and it just makes us smash da subscribe faster than we even realise we are actually doing it on reflex. This channel I just discovered and I watched the vid about Eiyuden, a game I recently purchased. I love to listen to reviews both neutral,negative and positive. Right away I could tell where this review was going. And I appreciated the honesty right quick ya see. So this video I'm leaving my comment about e.g. paper Mario. I had to thumb up subscribe because the narration is incredible, full of passion, and dang straight this channel is an God dang GEM in my opinion.
Earnestly? I'm generally surprised not many people talk about how lame the X-nauts are if you put a lot of thought into it. Conceptually, I get it. Space based group, very utilitarian, advanced, got a weird "dude bro" thing going. But past Chapter 2? They largely feel tacked on as a perpetuating force. They don't feel like a threat, and more-so idiots that'd stumble over their own ambitions. They never get any Crystal Stars aside from the one that was in Rogueport, which we get from them in Chapter 7. They don't use that Crystal Star in search of the others. Mario has a map that tells them where the things are, and even their Super Computer loses allegiance to them fast.
Now, this does lean better into making the other antagonists like Doopliss, Rawk Hawk, etc. It makes them look better, more competent. Characters that have and use the Crystal Stars really work. But it's a far cry from Bowser's interesting (if a bit gullible) power plays in the original. I get that them being allied with the Shadow Sirens is supposed to be a big deal, but it feels like it only kicks them when they're down at the end. It's not a major problem, but I think it's far more interesting ground for discourse more than the same old same olds.
Good idea for a video, people are never happy with what they currently have, they always say "the old ones were better", when they usually actually weren't really.
On the flipside, the recency bias towards new games is also toxic and utterly absurd/baseless. I can already tell you that TTYD remake is going to reverse the narrative on this franchise. With the next true Mario RPG being super popular. This whole "nostalgia" argument will fall apart. I'm sure people will try to argue some "nuanced" reasons why Paper Mario on Switch 2 is good vs TTYD its inspiration is bad. Because they want to be unique. (hypothetical future)