Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door 2004
- Released
- July 22, 2004
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
- Platform
- Nintendo GameCube
- Developer
- Intelligent Systems
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Rating
- 90/100 on IGDB
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About this game
Intelligent Systems' 2004 GameCube role playing game, fought on a stage in front of a paying audience. Attacks and blocks want a button press timed to the animation. Doing it well makes the crowd cheer, which fills the meter your special moves run on and sometimes gets you an item thrown from the stands. Seven partners join over the game, swappable mid fight, each with a use outside it, and Mario himself folds into a boat or a plane to get past things. The towns are full of minor characters with their own preoccupations, and it is written as though somebody expected you to read all of it.