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Paper Mario: The Origami King tries its darndest to straddle the line between what fans of the original games love and a desire to move the franchise in a new direction. In many ways, it succeeds.

Nintendo welcomes us back into the world of Paper Mario with Paper Mario: The Origami King. The beloved series took a slight dip in popularity with Color Splash and Sticker Star, but Origami King ...

Not the full-blown RPG many fans have been waiting for Frequent puzzle solving won't appeal to everyone If you don't want to count the remakes, we haven't seen a new Mario & Luigi game since 2015's ...

As much fun as Mario's platforming antics have been over the decades, some of his greatest moments have come in the RPG space. Dating back to Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, the RPG genre ...

Entering combat in Paper Mario: The Origami King switches you over to a kind of mini-game. The game will take its time and explain it all to you, but those tutorials will fade from your memory over ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Paper Mario series thrives on a clever irreverence that can be hard to maintain. Its outlandish scenarios mash the absurdist, dreamlike world of ...

The Coin Step Counter accessory (purchased on Bonehead Island for 14,000 coins) yields 10,000 coins once Mario takes 10,000 steps. Steps are only registered while the accessory is equipped, and the ...