Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Follow Peach's map through a paper world, using partners and paper transformations to open routes while turn-based theater battles mix badge choices with timing-based attacks.
- AI score · out of 10
- 9.2 / 10
About this game
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door sends Mario after a legendary treasure with a map from Princess Peach. Exploration uses the properties of his paper body: folding into a plane lets him cross gaps, while partners contribute their own abilities. Koops, for example, can send his shell toward a distant switch. Enemy encounters move the action onto a theater stage for turn-based command battles with timing-based attacks. Badges add moves or strengthen abilities, but their combined cost must fit Mario's BP limit. Collecting Crystal Stars unlocks special moves. This version revises the graphics and soundtrack, and adds updated quick-travel pipes and a Partner Ring for switching companions.
Collected in series
Super Mario is Nintendo’s platform-adventure series, first launched in 1985. Mario and his friends leap through the Mushroom Kingdom and beyond, exploring colorful worlds and tackling playful challenges. Mushrooms, coins, pipes and surprising power-ups make every adventure full of discoveries.
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AI review
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A strong design match for players who enjoy turn-based planning with a hands-on timing element.
The BP limit should make badge selection a meaningful exercise in choosing priorities rather than equipping everything. Partners also contribute outside combat, giving players a reason to think about their abilities while exploring.
Strengths
- Badge costs should encourage deliberate choices about which moves and enhancements to bring.
- Field abilities give companions a practical role in exploration as well as combat.
Weaknesses
- Players who prefer battles handled entirely through menu choices may find the timing-based attacks an additional execution demand.
Who it is for: Players who like turn-based decisions, timed inputs and exploration built around character abilities.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Crystal Stars unlocking special moves provides a concrete link between the treasure hunt and an expanding combat toolkit. | Reviewed | 9.1 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Badge planning and timed attacks should suit players who want both preparation and active participation in turn-based combat. | Reviewed | 9.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Paper transformations and theater battles connect the visual premise to what players do, which may make the presentation especially appealing to those who enjoy playful staging. | Reviewed | 9.6 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The Partner Ring, updated travel pipes and battle practice offer practical ways to manage companions, move around and learn combat inputs. | Reviewed | 9.1 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Intelligent Systems
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Release date
- May 23, 2024
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- www.nintendo.com
- Offline minimum players
- 1
- Offline maximum players
- 1
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Role-Playing · Primary genre
- Tags
- Level ProgressionThird PersonHumorousExplorationStory-drivenLow Entry Barrier
- Supported game languages
- SpanishGermanFrenchSimplified ChineseJapaneseEnglish
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- ESRB: E
- Play modes
- Single player
- Perspectives
- Third person
Release editions
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwideMay 23, 2024
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Sources
- www.nintendo.comSource revision: 1
- www.nintendo.com