Mario & Luigi and Paper Mario collide!

H,mmm we just have to wait

Yeah, give us more Bowsers. Man, this is like a sick joke. I do not even want two Marios. Since when are they different anyway? I always saw Paper Mario as an art style, not some Twilight Zone alternate universe.

Well, whatever. It does seem like filler. I get that vibe too, but the idea is still okay enough on its own.

This is so awesome. We got two Bowsers, both talking, vs Mario, Luigi, and Mario.

Also Paper Mario can become a paper plane. Sweet. I'm definitely getting this, no questions asked.

I thought it was always obvious Paper Mario was a book, especially considering the levels are called "Chapters" and the Smash Bros stage trasistions like a pop-up book.

I'm just going to leave this here.

Nintendo and Alpha Dream is actually making a game that could POTENTIALLY be like this, and they'll most likely blow it.

No it couldn't potentially be like that. It could never potentially be like that. The game is already going to be bloated from just the regular mushroom kingdom folk and their paper counterparts. Not to mention that this isn't some huge budget game made by one of Nintendo's prime developers.

I also saw Paper Mario games as books, which fit into the art style of the game. However, I always saw it as a visual style and for storytelling purposes. I never thought it was some other world, just a creative spin on Mario.

Yoshi Story and Yoshi's Island also had distinct art styles that differed drastically from the other games in the series, but that never meant they were alternate universes. Heck, Yoshi's Island looks like a coloring book. Super Mario Bros. 3 also had level that looked like stages. Actual stages used in plays. All artistic choices.

Anyway, not a huge point against this game. I just felt lie pointing all this out. I do not care if we get a multiverse as long as the game lives up to the quality set by each series.

Thousand-Year Door could not be a retelling as at the end Flurrie goes on to retell that story on stage.

Then again, it did open as a book, similar to SPM. So either they told actual events in story book fashion, or they are retelling the stories. We know the paper abilities were used and not just part of a story.

SPM as a bad fanfiction. That's funny. I love the game, but still pretty funny.

I think all these art styles and visuals should not be looked into too much, overall.

Back to Jam, I wonder how long the game will be. Dream Team was long. Shorter than that would be okay for me, but longer than PIT. BIS length is probably the gold standard.

It took a decade, but those tutorials are now shorter!

They should be optional like Mario RPG or thousand-Year Door. Gamers are treated like retards now. I can understand explaining some stylus battles, but nothing else really warrants huge tutorials.

That should shave 15 hours off the games.

Tutorials were the worst part of the games, especially in PIT where every trip to the castle after a section of the game meant a tutorials for a new move.

Black Chest Demons were a humorous way to disguise tutorials. I am okay with creative methods like that in the games.

What padding?

I know some games had backtracking, but I never counted that as a bad aspect of the games.

I hope this game can introduce some new characters. That is why I love the RPGs.

I better wait to see how this one turns out before buying it on the first day like I did with Sticker Star.

Too many Toads is usually a warning sign.

Paper Mario did have a lot of Toads, though. So I am not too worried. I only need a few unique characters. Even if one is a Toad. I am just starved for something at this point.

Hopefully Bowser resembles his BIS self throughout the game with his dialogue.

I'm more interested in seeing old Mario characters and enemies that have yet to appear in an rpg than new characters or old PM specific characters.