![]() ![]() These little buggers have been folded into Origami flowers, insects and animals, as well as posters and other mundane items. The world has literally hundreds of trapped Toads scattered across its papery landscape. Speaking of Toads however, they make up one of the side activities Mario can partake in. The game also manages to tug at the heartstrings from time to time and like I alluded to earlier, touch on some pretty grim topics, which is a mighty fine feat indeed. It is a wonderful mix of puns, slapstick, dancing and dadishness that had me grinning from start to finish…almost. I struggle to remember any joke or quip that didn’t land perfectly. Whether it is the early whining of the Koopa King, the hilariously useless Bob-omb, Bob-omb, or the veritable horde of Toads you will encounter, everyone has something to say, and what they have to say is well written and genuinely funny. The same can be said for practically every character in the game. Her personality shines throughout the adventure and she rarely gets in the way. You won’t get far without Olivia chirping some dad-level joke or making some sort of pun. This is entirely down to her fantastic dialogue that is almost always comical. Whilst she does spurt off some tediously slow tutorial nonsense and can sometimes state the obvious when it comes to relatively simple puzzles, she is overall an incredibly endearing piece of paper who is way more likely to make you smile, than induce seething rage and hatred. There is always a risk that having a perpetual companion chiming in every thirteen seconds could get tiring, heck Nintendo have flubbed this aspect many, many times in the past. Paper Mario is almost as well known for its characters, companions or otherwise, as it is for its charming aesthetics. Things look pretty darn dire for our paper-craft hero, but all is not lost as his faithful companion Princess Olivia, sister of the maniacal Olly, joins Mario on his quest to save the kingdom and give that dastardly monarch a proper good talking to. This folded mandman has assimilated the paper residents of the kingdom, created a slave army known as the folded, turned Peach into a genocidal endorsing figurehead and ensnared the castle in magical ribbons. The game opens with the Mushroom Kingdom once again under siege by an malevolent entity (not Bowser this time…), the titular Origami King, or Olly. Nope, not even close, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing as Origami King certainly holds its own, and manages to at least deliver on some of its laudy promises. The series peaked with ‘Thousand Year Door’, so does Origami King manage to equal, or even surpass, it’s monolithic precursor? Needless to say, fans of the series were simultaneously biting at the bit to get their grubby mits on Paper Mario: The Origami King, and nervous that the latest entry would continue the series’ downward trend into oblivion. The ‘Paper Mario’ series has been in a bit of a funk for almost a decade, longer depending on your opinion of the somewhat divisive Wii entry, Super Paper Mario. ![]()
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