Super Paper Mario hugely impressed me at first. The style and humor were top-notch, and some creative thinking is required to solve puzzles. However, the game quickly wears thin. Too many of the challenges require simply flipping into 3-D to find and talk to a random character for a secret code. For being a hero who's on a mission to save all worlds, Mario is asked to go on a lot of rather stupid fetch quests. Combat against the bosses is easy, but you have to know the weakness -- looking up a walkthrough on the Internet is extremely tempting. The frustrating part is that the dialogue is extensive throughout, and it could have been edited down in many places. At the very least, it should have been possible to skip dialogue you have seen before.
I am not used to RPGs, so the simple inventory system was nice. However, the items are not so helpful, and you can store only so many. You can store items at a shop in the main area, Flipside, but it breaks up gameplay. The Catch Card that captures an ememy's soul never worked against the enemies I tried it against. Some special enemies are not seen as such with other weapons.
The puzzles were pretty weak; I would have liked to see some brainteasers. I thought I found a tricky one when first going between Flipside and Flopside, but the solution is just to follow the clue. There is no pattern to the colors of the blocks in the chapel.
[SPOILER ALERT] The perhaps most disappointing part for me was the story. The moral seemed like it was going to be that love is a powerful force that is always with you, but nearly every character winds up alone and heartbroken. The girl who dies to become a Pure Heart is really gone for good. Blumiere and Tympani wind up together, even though they've both changed a lot; it doesn't seem like they are at all in love. Plus, Tippi was falling in love with Mario, but that story is simply dropped. I was thinking that she and Mario would get together, as would Luigi and Peach, and Bleck and Nastasia (maybe), and even Bowser and that Pure Heart girl (or Nastasia). But the only couple is the mysterious one between Bleck and Tippi, which is a shotgun marriage. I kind of wanted a happy ending, but it doesn't appear than anyone really learned anything.
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