Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)

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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Promotional image for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on Nintendo Switch
For alternate box art, see the game's gallery.
Developer Intelligent Systems[1]
Publisher Nintendo
Platform(s) Nintendo Switch
Release date 2024[?]
Language(s) English (United States)
French (France)
German
Spanish (Spain)
Italian
Dutch
Japanese
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Korean
Genre RPG
Rating(s)
ESRB:E - Everyone
CERO:B - Twelve years and older
Mode(s) Single player

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is an upcoming game for the Nintendo Switch. It is a remake of the 2004 Nintendo GameCube game of the same name. It was announced in the September 14, 2023 Nintendo Direct, and it is scheduled to be released in 2024.[2] The title will feature visually enhanced and updated graphics. However, the characters still use their general designs from the original, rather than the updated designs used in the later Paper Mario games starting with Paper Mario: Sticker Star.

Differences

  • The entire game has a higher-resolution, more crafted appearance similar to Paper Mario: The Origami King. For example, the characters now have a softer, felt-like texture, while the pigs have visible seams on them.[2] To go alongside these changes, dynamic lighting is now present extensively in many areas.
  • The game runs at 30 frames per second[2], which is half of the 60 frames per second that the original game runs at.
  • Characters are generally more expressive, such as during the kitchen mystery on the Excess Express.[2]
  • The Mario Bros.' House has a group picture of the partners from Paper Mario as a call-forward to Super Paper Mario having it along with one for the Thousand-Year Door partners.[2]
  • A few new character designs have been added, such as a purple martial artist-themed Toad in Glitzville.[2]
  • Characters are given unique talking sounds during dialogue, similar to the Mario & Luigi series. Luigi and Princess Peach, for example, have talking sounds similar to their voices, while Koops has talking sound identical to modern Koopa Troopa vocal effects.[2]
  • The whole party is visible while riding the Cheep Blimp.[2]
  • More characters can be seen from behind, such as Mario's partners, unlike in the original, where they are shown in a frontal profile regardless of the camera angle.[2]
  • TEC-XX now has a red eye in all regions rather than only in Japan.[2]
  • The game's logo in international regions has been redesigned to resemble the Japanese logo of the original game more. Conversely, the Japanese logo is now primarily written in English, matching the design conventions of the series' Japanese logos from Super Paper Mario onward.
  • There is a "Superguard" text pop-up that appears when the player successfully performs a Superguard. The original game displayed a “GREAT!” text instead.
  • Due to the widescreen resolution, the HUD elements and some interiors have been redesigned to accommodate the extra horizontal space. Framing in several cutscenes has also been readjusted to go alongside these changes.
  • The soundtrack has been rearranged with new instrumentation, and is now similar to the soundtracks of later entries in the Paper Mario series.
  • Some character dialogue has been altered slightly from the original game. For example, when Mario enters the town square of Rogueport for the first time, Goombella states that she is a "Student at the University of Goom," while she instead states that she is a "Junior at the University of Goom" in the remake. Another example involves Bowser using the insult "Lunkhead" in place of the word "Airhead" during the Bowser interlude after completing Chapter 1.[2]
  • More visual aids for points of interest have been implemented, such as a sign that displays an icon with tacked papers above the door to the Trouble Center building, and a set of easily visible footprints in eastern Rogueport that leads into a hidden alley.[2]

Gallery

References to other games

Trivia

  • The game's Japanese age rating has been raised to CERO B, up from CERO A of the original game.

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ペーパーマリオRPG[?]
Pēpā Mario Āru Pī Jī
Paper Mario RPG
This naming method is similar to Super Mario RPG and the Japanese name of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.
Chinese (traditional) 紙片瑪利歐RPG[3]
Zhǐpiàn Mǎlì'ōu RPG
Paper Mario RPG
Dutch Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[?] -
French Paper Mario: La Porte Millénaire[?] Paper Mario: The Millennium Door
German Paper Mario: Die Legende vom Äonentor[?] Paper Mario: The Legend of the Aeon Gate
Italian Paper Mario: Il Portale Millenario[?] Paper Mario: The Millennium Portal
Korean 페이퍼 마리오 1000년의 문[?]
Peipeo Malio Cheon-nyeon-ui Mun
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Portuguese Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[?] -
Spanish Paper Mario: La Puerta Milenaria[?] Paper Mario: The Millennium Door

References

  1. ^ Nintendo UK Store page Screenshot
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Nintendo of America (September 14, 2023). Nintendo Direct 9.14.2023 - Nintendo Switch. YouTube. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  3. ^ (September 14, 2023). 《紙片瑪利歐RPG》的最新資訊公開!本作預定於2024年發售。 Nintendo HK. Retrieved September 14, 2023.