I played this game after playing Bowsers Inside Story and I must say, the game isn't terrible by any means, but it lacks the charm found in Bowsers Inside Story and feels pretty generic which is a shame. I expected more and I ended up greatly disappointed.
I couldn't skip the credits
Fun combat and fantastic music locked behind an unfortunately bland experience. Given the general lack of creativity in the Mario brand around the time, as well as Paper Mario practically being on deaths door following Sticker Star, what could have been a great merger between two beloved RPG series instead just kinda came out... eh.
Pretty good and pretty fun to speedrun like Dream Team.
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This game was nice, it was good to see a Mario x Paper Mario crossover but I feel like this game has a lot of missed potential.
Recycling Neo Bowser Castle name was not cool, I appreciated that there were the koopalings but Iggy, Morton and Lemmy bossfight was just a oneshot thingy, I'd have enjoyed to see more. But in the end it wasn't a bad game at all!
Recycling Neo Bowser Castle name was not cool, I appreciated that there were the koopalings but Iggy, Morton and Lemmy bossfight was just a oneshot thingy, I'd have enjoyed to see more. But in the end it wasn't a bad game at all!
I don't hate this game as much as some others because it still is a Mario & Luigi game at its core it isn't my favorite in any way though
2 mal versucht zum final boss zu kommen 2 mal abgebrochen wegen dieser gammel toad suche die keiner mag. paper mario ist ne gute idee und hat auch geile partner moves aber der rest vom game ist garnicht geil, höchstens ein okay
Far too mid
Worse Mario & Luigi game. One word: Toads
It is pretty decent. This is the weakest game in the series,
I'm honestly super glad this game didn't end being a giant fan-fictiony pandering crossover fuckfest with no rhyme or reason like most people wanted (for some reason) but I think the story ends up on the opposite side of that extreme, which is being too standard and safe. It's not bad by any means, it's just generic as all hell. That doesn't really matter though cuz this is still an M&L game, meaning it still has fun gameplay, an amazing battle system, charming dialogue, a great soundtrack, and oodles of charm. Tmw when the "worst" Mario & Luigi game is still really good. I miss this series, dude...
Paper Jam is quite the mixed bag in the series. A game absolutely brimming with comedy and fun, Paper Jam unfortunately lacks a lot of what made older titles so special to so many people: the worlds. The Mario & Luigi series so much represents the fun of adventuring unknown worlds, as each game applies this key factor in many interesting and creative ways, which really hurts Paper Jam in so many ways. When it comes to combat and systems, Paper Jam is as smooth and as, well, Mario & Luigi as you can find.
They get the two versions of Mario with great storytelling to come together...and it's a generic 'Save the Princess' story: in a fucking Mario RPG!!!?!?!?!? That is the lamest shit ever! Well, the gameplay is refined, especially on more complex difficulties. Paper Mario is a great companion for using special attacks with or pairing in the group. Play this if you want, but pick ANY OTHER M&L or Paper Mario RPG other than this.
struggled to finish it
ai generated mario game
bro...
Paper Jam gets a lot of bad rep in my eyes. It's no doubt the weakest of the series (excluding remakes), but it's not a bad game at all. The battle system is one of the best in the series, and I think it's worth a shot if you're interested.
This one gets right to the point and doesn't slow down momentum with a lot of tutorials. However the papercraft battle suck in this game and are extremely slow
combat is fun, environments boring, everything else meh
Score: 70/100
I have bias for this game, but it was a fun rpg with good graphics for the 3ds.
I have bias for this game, but it was a fun rpg with good graphics for the 3ds.
Aren't a compelling story and cast of characters like... the absolute bare minimum things for an RPG to have? How did they mess this up?
The only person who put any effort into this game was Yoko Shimomura.
The only person who put any effort into this game was Yoko Shimomura.
This... is fun, but also they were able to make a cross over between two beloved worlds incredibly generic.
It’s ok. Gameplay carries
Okay, I get why people don't really like this one. In hindsight, that is. But this was also one of the first RPGs I ever remember beating, so I'm blinded by NOSTALGIA :D nah but I do have a soft spot for this despite its flaws.
Un bon crossover mais les zones sont beaucoup moins originales et l'histoire assez anecdotique. Le système de combat marche toujours aussi bien, et comme pour tous les jeux de cette licence le boss final est épiquissime.
Paper Jam is a difficult case. It's by far the worst game in the Mario & Luigi franchise, it's generic as heck and I don't really like it. But at the end of the day, it's still Mario & Luigi.
You guys will never understand how disappointed 12 year old me was playing this game. Even back then I knew something was off compared to the others.
such a good idea bringing the 2 mario rpgs together but good god is it executed poorly
Garbage. This game is literally a crime.
I could've ended off here, but it now falls on me to do the explaining. Mario and Luigi was once a masterful Mario RPG subseries made by the late Alphadream that Nintendo used as an excuse to ruin Paper Mario, on the pretense that they already had a Mario RPG series, and wanted to do something different with Paper Mario, hence transforming Paper Mario into Paper Jam with Sticker Star. This resulted in a dangerous loop for both series ironically, where Paper Mario was mortified into a zombie looking even creepier than Doopliss, and Mario and Luigi was left on life support for a few years, before dying off thanks to this piece of garbage, Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam. A game that was supposed to marry both beloved subseries together, only stifled creative liberty by destroying everything that made Mario and Luigi great via jamming Paper Jam's solace and stupidity into the forefront. The rich storytelling of MandL was completely axed in favor of yet another Paper Jam story, where two Bowsers act in tandem to do evil things for the umpteenth time, intruding on a series whose first main antagonist wasn't even Bowser. Give the Koopa King a break, writers. He deserves better than this.
Despite the gameplay very much being Mario and Luigi, the tone and feeling is again severely corrupted. The gameplay is still fun and I would give this abomination a 5/10 just for having fantastic gameplay if it hadn't crushed Mario and Luigi with it. Paper Jam is the reason Alphadream went bankrupt, because this game was so unappealing and antithetical to a subseries whose creative status was untouched, so it had to be destroyed for the greater good according to Nintendo. This is why Paper Mario should've never been ruined, because its influence is what destroyed Mario and Luigi to begin with.
I could've ended off here, but it now falls on me to do the explaining. Mario and Luigi was once a masterful Mario RPG subseries made by the late Alphadream that Nintendo used as an excuse to ruin Paper Mario, on the pretense that they already had a Mario RPG series, and wanted to do something different with Paper Mario, hence transforming Paper Mario into Paper Jam with Sticker Star. This resulted in a dangerous loop for both series ironically, where Paper Mario was mortified into a zombie looking even creepier than Doopliss, and Mario and Luigi was left on life support for a few years, before dying off thanks to this piece of garbage, Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam. A game that was supposed to marry both beloved subseries together, only stifled creative liberty by destroying everything that made Mario and Luigi great via jamming Paper Jam's solace and stupidity into the forefront. The rich storytelling of MandL was completely axed in favor of yet another Paper Jam story, where two Bowsers act in tandem to do evil things for the umpteenth time, intruding on a series whose first main antagonist wasn't even Bowser. Give the Koopa King a break, writers. He deserves better than this.
Despite the gameplay very much being Mario and Luigi, the tone and feeling is again severely corrupted. The gameplay is still fun and I would give this abomination a 5/10 just for having fantastic gameplay if it hadn't crushed Mario and Luigi with it. Paper Jam is the reason Alphadream went bankrupt, because this game was so unappealing and antithetical to a subseries whose creative status was untouched, so it had to be destroyed for the greater good according to Nintendo. This is why Paper Mario should've never been ruined, because its influence is what destroyed Mario and Luigi to begin with.
It's just mid, not as good as the early M&L games.