Finally finished my first playthrough of this one after multiple breaks, running through multiple months and two controllers. So yeah, this one took me a while, but it was very much worth the play. The main thing that stays in my memory about this game is its tremendous sense of humour and personality. Almost every screen of the game has memorable interactions to be found as every single character feels like they were developed with the idea of them being a genuine character. Everyone seems to have their own personality, their own silly traits that make the world feel so much bigger than just a generic game world, which honestly is the best thing a quirky Nintendo RPG can do (see Earthbound). From any enemy no matter how small, to every generic one-line character, all the way up to main characters, hell every single screen in the game has the potential to have great quirky dialogue because of tattle and you won't know until you go find out. Speaking of the characters, there are so many wonderful and original ones however big or small their importance is to the story, which in itself is also fantastic. Perhaps the general thread of the story is pretty simplistic to a Mario game but with all these aspects they absolutely nailed, it doesn't feel like a point against the game that the main story is "Bowser stole Peach". I don't have too much else to say about this one honestly, and I feel like a lot of what I said is a bit generic which does this game a disservice. At the end of the day, this is the wonderful personality that Paper Mario and Mario and Luigi and general Mario-themed RPG fans are talking about when they complain about how awful Sticker Star is.

Reviewed on Feb 25, 2023


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