Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - Mario's Back At It Again

Not just satisfied to play around in the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario is off to Rogueport to save his bonnie lass...er, princess. This is where the storyline of the game begins, and it continues to be interesting throughout the entire thing. Fans of the Mario genre will find new and interesting things - and there's obviously a lot of fans, given the number of Mario games out there. But even if you're new to the Paper Mario type of game, you'll still get a kick out of where this game will take Mario to. He has to seek out these seven stars - powerful artifacts actually - and all of them are hidden in different areas of the gameworld. The characters in this game are all recognizable, and yet they all display normal - or abnormal, depending on your perspective - lives that they walk around working their way through. If you pay attention, you'll easily get enraptured by the depth of the storyline here. One thing to note - this game is huge. You will be hard pressed to finish this title in less than 30 hours, unless you are really rushing through and intentionally skipping anything possible - which would really be a waste of a good gaming adventure.

Paper Mario - for those who have never experienced it - offers some unique and interesting gameplay elements. The gameworld in The Thousand-Year Door plays off this idea throughout. Mario is learns how to use his "paper-like" abilities at various points for things like fitting through a grate or becoming a paper Mario airplane. Even wind is used to good effect in a manner that follows along with the idea of a 'Paper Mario'. Not every use for Mario's new abilities is exactly obvious either, which allows for the player to explore the environment and find all those hidden rewards that we've become accustomed to in Mario games. The whole idea is very unique and interesting for those new to it, and even if you've played a Paper Mario title before, you'll still enjoy the way it's implemented here.