Well, Paper Mario: Sticker Star sure is a thing.
I first played this in 2021, and since then, I have struggled to understand why everybody had to be so strong against it.
As a Nintendo fan, I understood that they, while being a billion-dollar company, are still a group of people who like to do their thing.
I suppose I wasn't as insulted as many of you thought, coming from a person who played the original Paper Mario three months prior.
I've been trying to figure out why I like the modern games a lot more than most people, and I guess it's just because of how late I am as a fan.
I was approaching my middle teen years when I first played Color Splash, my very first Paper Mario game, which is probably around the age many of the fans first played Sticker Star, and as a result, I don't have a strong preference for either side.
Back then, it was essentially a foundation of what was to come. I could tell from playing it that this is what Nintendo wanted to do. They wanted to tell an adventure with so much diversity and emotion. And should they release a game that is capable of that but not quite as strongly, so be it.
But it didn't quite resonate as well with everybody because I guess they fail to realise how niche Nintendo may be if they want to.
Nine years and two games later, and I still do not get why everybody is so visceral with this game.
I get the problems they have, but I don't get why they need to be so front-and-centre about it.
Why is the fact that characters need to be visually distinct from each other when personality is just as important?
Why is having super powerful items so much of a problem when you could just use them whenever needed?
Why is the navigation so much of a problem for so many people while I blitzed through it without looking up a guide on my first playthrough? Zelda: Ocarina of Time couldn't even do that. Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
How does the most hated Nintendo game have better navigation than the most loved? Am I just smarter than the majority of these players?
At the end of the day though, who knows why people don't see Nintendo as a group of people who like to make video games?
Who cares why I gave this game four stars?
Who sees that all the complaints towards this game have been completely milked dry?
Who understands me anymore?
I have completely lost interest in negative modern Paper Mario reviews, and unless you've embraced the darkness, s o h a v e y o u .
I first played this in 2021, and since then, I have struggled to understand why everybody had to be so strong against it.
As a Nintendo fan, I understood that they, while being a billion-dollar company, are still a group of people who like to do their thing.
I suppose I wasn't as insulted as many of you thought, coming from a person who played the original Paper Mario three months prior.
I've been trying to figure out why I like the modern games a lot more than most people, and I guess it's just because of how late I am as a fan.
I was approaching my middle teen years when I first played Color Splash, my very first Paper Mario game, which is probably around the age many of the fans first played Sticker Star, and as a result, I don't have a strong preference for either side.
Back then, it was essentially a foundation of what was to come. I could tell from playing it that this is what Nintendo wanted to do. They wanted to tell an adventure with so much diversity and emotion. And should they release a game that is capable of that but not quite as strongly, so be it.
But it didn't quite resonate as well with everybody because I guess they fail to realise how niche Nintendo may be if they want to.
Nine years and two games later, and I still do not get why everybody is so visceral with this game.
I get the problems they have, but I don't get why they need to be so front-and-centre about it.
Why is the fact that characters need to be visually distinct from each other when personality is just as important?
Why is having super powerful items so much of a problem when you could just use them whenever needed?
Why is the navigation so much of a problem for so many people while I blitzed through it without looking up a guide on my first playthrough? Zelda: Ocarina of Time couldn't even do that. Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
How does the most hated Nintendo game have better navigation than the most loved? Am I just smarter than the majority of these players?
At the end of the day though, who knows why people don't see Nintendo as a group of people who like to make video games?
Who cares why I gave this game four stars?
Who sees that all the complaints towards this game have been completely milked dry?
Who understands me anymore?
I have completely lost interest in negative modern Paper Mario reviews, and unless you've embraced the darkness, s o h a v e y o u .