Super Paper Mario was a fucking horrible game. I played it beginning to end (in the span of a single rental, to get some use out of my Wii, as said in the review) and I have to say I quite hated every second of it.
While it's an interesting take on action RPGs (as in, you fight enemies real-time in the overworld without going into a separate turn-based battle screen) the whole thing just felt really boring, like, even the big boss battles. Even the final boss went out with a pathetic whimper. None of them have any "pop" or "flash" to them, all it takes to beat them is just using Bowser's fire breath and butt stomps till they die, and the combat feels anticlimactic and weak as hell. That's not my main issue with the game, though.
My main qualm with the game is that the entire thing, top to bottom, is waaaaaay too fanservicey... like all Mario games have been since Sunshine. From the 4chan-browsing nerd chameleon to the tiresome self-referential humor, it was just really painful for me to play this game due to the contrived writing that keeps trying to roast itself alive while not being original or funny at all without resorting to lame inside humor that'll fly over the heads of anyone who isn't a mouth-breathing Nintentard. Alright, I get it, I know you've been around since the 1980s you fat piece of shit. Yeah, great, this is how you looked when you were pixellated on the NES. Oh look, Luigi gets shafted for the billionth time and jokes are made about it, har har that never gets old! JESUS CHRIST WILL YOU IDIOTS JUST FUCKING MOVE ON AS A SERIES ALREADY? AND STOP FUCKING REMIXING SMB MUSIC, YOU LAZY FUCKS. I'M SO TIRED OF HEARING THAT SHIT THAT EVERY TIME I HEAR IT I WANT TO TAKE AN ELECTRIC SAW TO MY EARS.
In addition to all this, the storyline just sucks my ass. It's just contrived from beginning to end. They try to tie it all together with a really pretentious attempt at a dramatic love story, but it'll only be dramatic to 10 year olds and deluded wiitards who think everything Nintendo does is God. This game is a giant hunk of cheese.
While it's an interesting take on action RPGs (as in, you fight enemies real-time in the overworld without going into a separate turn-based battle screen) the whole thing just felt really boring, like, even the big boss battles. Even the final boss went out with a pathetic whimper. None of them have any "pop" or "flash" to them, all it takes to beat them is just using Bowser's fire breath and butt stomps till they die, and the combat feels anticlimactic and weak as hell. That's not my main issue with the game, though.
My main qualm with the game is that the entire thing, top to bottom, is waaaaaay too fanservicey... like all Mario games have been since Sunshine. From the 4chan-browsing nerd chameleon to the tiresome self-referential humor, it was just really painful for me to play this game due to the contrived writing that keeps trying to roast itself alive while not being original or funny at all without resorting to lame inside humor that'll fly over the heads of anyone who isn't a mouth-breathing Nintentard. Alright, I get it, I know you've been around since the 1980s you fat piece of shit. Yeah, great, this is how you looked when you were pixellated on the NES. Oh look, Luigi gets shafted for the billionth time and jokes are made about it, har har that never gets old! JESUS CHRIST WILL YOU IDIOTS JUST FUCKING MOVE ON AS A SERIES ALREADY? AND STOP FUCKING REMIXING SMB MUSIC, YOU LAZY FUCKS. I'M SO TIRED OF HEARING THAT SHIT THAT EVERY TIME I HEAR IT I WANT TO TAKE AN ELECTRIC SAW TO MY EARS.
In addition to all this, the storyline just sucks my ass. It's just contrived from beginning to end. They try to tie it all together with a really pretentious attempt at a dramatic love story, but it'll only be dramatic to 10 year olds and deluded wiitards who think everything Nintendo does is God. This game is a giant hunk of cheese.
