Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door cover

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.

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