Paper Mario is unequivocally one of the most popular video game franchises of all time. The game's influence is so extensive that even those unfamiliar with Mario are aware of it. The franchise has ...

If you ask any Paper Mario fan, there are two distinct eras in the 25-year history of the subseries: The golden age of character-driven RPGs, and the more experimental games with simpler gameplay and ...

FFXIV Discord lurker and Majima stan. You can find her often retweeting/liking Yakuza-related posts and begging for FFXIV community content here: @megpelliccio. Super Mario is considered to be one of ...

Phoebe is a writer, a hard worker, and has always been interested in videogames. She's worked in retail, coached, babysat, has had an internship, and now works as a list writer for Valent's website ...

The Paper Mario series has evolved in strange ways over the years. It started as a conventional turn-based Japanese role-playing game (JRPG) for the Nintendo 64, then saw a fantastic GameCube sequel ...

The latest Paper Mario outing is likely to come under fire for not returning to the RPG mechanics that made the series beloved in the first place - but The Origami King is its best outing in some time ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Princess Peach is in trouble, so Mario must find a certain number of magical objects that will help save her. As he searches for those items, Mario recruits a ...

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - Nintendo Direct 9.14.2023 This isn’t the first time that the Paper Mario series has appeared on the Nintendo Switch. Paper Mario: The Origami King is a much more ...

Following the release of the first two Paper Mario games in the early 2000s, a single question has haunted each subsequent release: “Does it play like the first two?” The answer for each game, from ...

Marco Vito Oddo is a writer, journalist, and amateur game designer. Passionate about superhero comic books, horror films, and indie games, he formally worked as a Senior Writer for Collider. When he's ...

How do I level up? Every time Mario defeats an enemy, it’ll drop Star Points – which is Paper Mario's equivalent of Experience Points (EXP). When Mario collects 100 Star Points, he levels up! Each ...

From 2000 all the way until 2020, Paper Mario is a series that has gone through a lot of metamorphoses. From adding new mechanics upon every new iteration to flat-out switching genres, Paper Mario has ...