Looper posted:

okay but the third game had https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMnrl0tmd3k

TheKingofSprings posted:

How the gently caress does that have 7.5 million views

TheKingofSprings posted:

How the gently caress does that have 7.5 million views

HenryEx posted:

I'm currently playing though the AA Trilogy and finished Justice For All like last week, but i've already forgotten what the last case was. I first thought it was the one with bizarro Gendo Ikari, but then i remembered that was the bonus DS case from the first game.

ThisIsACoolGuy posted:

As a aside, those aren't models, they're still sprites

Only models in the game I can think of aside from the settings are the papercraft fights and mega luigi

PantsBandit posted:

PantsBandit posted:

Finished up Paper Jam last night. I liked it a lot, despite it feeling like a very different beast from other M&L games. There are a LOT of minigames, minigames for special attacks, minigames to get paper toads, minigames to catch nabbit, it almost feels like you're playing Mario Party sometimes. That's not necessarily a negative, as sometimes they're actually pretty fun. I found myself occasionally wishing I could just get on with it already.

The good parts of the game really stand out though. It's just as funny and charming as the series has always been. The characters are all mainline-Nintendo, but they use them in some pretty fun and unique ways so it didn't bother me like I expected it to. I was also concerned about the transition from the really stylish 2D games to using 3D models but the transition was made really well. The game world is gorgeous and all the characters have really great animations.

The boss fights are also amazing. Each one will have its own little gimmick that you have to catch onto, and they often use the 3D effects in some really cool ways (such as your party running towards the camera to escape a giant cannonball rolling towards them.)

One final thing I want to touch on is the battle cards. Once you get around 5 hours into the game you're introduced to these cards that you can collect and use in battle. The cards use "Star Points", which you gain by pulling off successful attacks (among other ways), and can do all sorts of things, from increasing power to turning your enemies into goombas. When these were first introduced to me, I thought it'd just be a dumb little gimmick that I'd mostly ignore. It actually turned out to be a lot of fun collecting cards and building a deck though, and they add a really cool layer of strategy onto the fights. I found myself using cards in pretty much every encounter I came to.

I would definitely recommend it. It took a couple hours to grow on me but once it did I was hooked.

thorsilver posted:

Thanks for the detailed impressions! I love the M&L series so I'm really glad this one came together so well. I'll definitely be picking this one up when I get some spare cash.

You know I was just grousing in the Final Fantasy thread about how that series has abandoned turn-based combat, and I totally forgot that a new M&L game was out! Thanks for the reminder, now I know I'll have another turn-based RPG to look forward to very soon.

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Q:
Both the Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi series are known for their high-quality storylines, so did this aspect also turn out to be tricky to handle?

A:
...It did. We were thinking, since the paper characters were coming all the way from the paper world, let's make the main story something really bizarre, crammed with red herrings and misapprehensions. We had things like going back and forth to the paper world, and the Mushroom Kingdom turning gradually into paper... But we overdid it a bit, and the first draft of the plot ended up being a complete muddle that wouldn't resonate with anyone...
So we simplified the script and structured it with greater emphasis on showing the different characters meeting and interacting with each other. We had to do a lot of re-writes...

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It sounds as if it was quite hard to get the balance of the characters right, like you'd adjust one thing, and it would cause a problem somewhere else... Mr Otani, I'd really like to hear some of your grumbles, as the Nintendo representative.

A:
No grumbles from me! Although... Actually, the in-house coordination was quite a big job. We really had to make an effort to give all three characters their own characteristics and chances to stand out, because when Paper Mario came to the fore too much, Mario and Luigi's parts seemed a bit thin by comparison. "Crossovers are tough, and I'd be the first one to say it!", I thought. But rewriting the script, adjusting the overworld actions, balancing the battles, and making sure that each character had their own special scenes resulted in lots more evolutions of the finished product than usual, so ultimately I think it turned out the better for it.

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Q:
That reminds me: In the Mario & Luigi games, there are usually lots of interesting characters who don't appear in other Mario games, but this time it seemed to be mostly main-line characters. Was this also something to do with it being a crossover?

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Oh no, nothing to do with that! This time, since we had so many paper characters and doubles of the same character together, we had to prioritize moving the story forward and communicating the contrast between them. It would have been really difficult to put in original characters and work out when would be the best time for them to appear.

The Colonel posted:

Electric Phantasm posted:

No Nintendo Mandate, just issues with being a crossover.

Help Im Alive posted:

I heard Shigeru Miyamoto actually printed out Paper Mario and ripped him to shreds in front of Intelligent Systems

dmboogie posted:

I got an eShop giftcard for my birthday and I'm trying to figure out whether to use it now or just save it for Fates DLC.

I've been meaning to try out Monster Hunter for a long time now, but how soon is the next 3DS installment gonna come out? I don't want to buy 4 only for it to be obsoleted a month or two down the line.

dmboogie posted:

I got an eShop giftcard for my birthday and I'm trying to figure out whether to use it now or just save it for Fates DLC.

I've been meaning to try out Monster Hunter for a long time now, but how soon is the next 3DS installment gonna come out? I don't want to buy 4 only for it to be obsoleted a month or two down the line.

ThisIsACoolGuy posted:

I remember in a old Nintendo Power there was a page that was just a cut-along-the-lines of Paper Mario and the page was labeled Free Demo. That was fun.

otend posted:

i've owned a new 3DS since the beginning of April 2015, and it has never stopped feeling awkward. I'm stuck here waiting for the New Nintendo 2DS that will never happen. The top screen ends up feeling heavy compared to the rest and means I can only hold the thing in my lap rather than any comfortable position

anyone else in this conundrum?

absolutely anything posted:

please do not damage the narrative psychotic paper mario fans have created in their weird hosed up heads

Electric Phantasm posted:

No Nintendo Mandate, just issues with being a crossover.

Cake Attack posted:

on the other hand all the mario rpgs since BiS have been kinda mediocre

i don't think there's some grand conspiracy behind it, i just think at the end of the day they're mediocre

Motto posted:

I'm starting to think that, generally, crossovers are a bad idea.

noirstronaut posted:

don't ever say you hate toad