Paper Mario: The Origami King is a remarkable improvement over Color Splash. Things are now… things of the past, and you won’t need any particular items to be able to defeat bosses. You’re getting defeated until you figure it out. Battles still forced you to rely on dispensable attack “items”, and powerful objects called “Things” – which usually took the form of real-world appliances such as fans and ovens – were required to beat certain bosses. I digress, though: Color Splash had problems too. I didn’t beat it, though, because my Wii U GamePad began drifting, which made a particular section quite literally impossible to beat. I played through Color Splash myself, and was quite happy with it. Then Nintendo released Paper Mario: Color Splash on Wii U in 2016. Review sites were quick to give praise to Sticker Star despite its glaring issues, and before long, players began to garner a burning dislike of the series’ direction. On the whole, Sticker Star’s plot was much more forgettable than that of prior Paper Mario games. The only difference between Toads were their colors, and you’d often have multiple red or blue Toads appear in the same area. You had Mario, sure, but then almost every other friendly NPC was a Toad. One issue players were particularly unhappy about was its lack of character variety. Unfortunately, I started with Sticker Star. Yeah. And I’m not about to defend Sticker Star - it was pretty rough, and the sudden transition was jarring to longtime Paper Mario fans. As we all know, Paper Mario changed for good when Sticker Star was released. Let’s start with the generic Sticker Star spiel once again. My last post on The Origami King followed a somewhat unconventional format (since it consisted of my work-in-progress opinion of the game), so we’re back to our normal format for this one. If you’re still on the fence, then hopefully this post helps you make a decision! Please note that this will be a spoiler-free review we won’t be going in-depth on any specific plot details. They could have rather easily ported Paper Mario: Color Splash to Switch, but instead they built a brand-new Paper Mario game that far, far exceeds its predecessor. Still, though, I’ve got to hand it to Nintendo. Though, considering its rather barren lineup (especially if you take out Animal Crossing), that might not be saying much. I can say this with confidence: I believe The Origami King is Nintendo’s strongest Switch release this year (so far). It’s been almost two weeks, and I’ve just about wrapped up my playthrough of the game. A while back, I wrote up a short post on my first impressions of Paper Mario: The Origami King.
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