Mario has come in a lot of different styles and shapes over the years, but few have been as memorable as the Paper Mario series. Just like it sounds, the series gives us a 2D cutout version of Mario ...

Paper Mario Color Splash feels more like walking through a board game or a diorama than like playing a video game on Nintendo’s Wii U console. The fifth game in this side-series, Color Splash also ...

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Mario’s flatter, cuter off-shoot Paper Mario has long proven a welcome foil to his three dimensional counterpart, offering humor, story, and RPG-inspired gameplay in place of pure platforming. The ...

Nintendo has focused this year’s E3 on a select few games, but the strategy seems to be paying off, with significant attention coming to Link’s next adventure, in particular. But before we get our ...

Paper Mario: Color Splash is one of those games that looks to the past to help shape the future. Everywhere you look, it’s referencing previous entries in the series, employing nostalgia to create ...

The latest installment in the Paper Mario series that of Paper Mario: Color Splash, has finally been released on Wii U. This was because it was an interesting mix of role-playing and puzzle-based ...

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Paper Mario: Color Splash puts a new spin on the “Mario Paint” idea. Reminiscent of the adhesive gimmickry of Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Color Splash’s main appeal hinges on the joys of painting blank ...

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Paper Mario: Color Splash is built on paper and paint, but it places its biggest bet on cards. With the RPG inclinations of the original Paper Mario and its beloved follow-up Paper Mario: The Thousand ...

Bowser's latest mâché-nations are boringly familiar. Despite the usual fizzy writing, this series doesn't make us crease up like it used to. This isn't so much a sequel to the 2012's Paper Mario: ...