I made this suggestion that the next Paper Mario could be a crossover with Sonic. Nintendo and Sega claimed they can't do a proper platformer crossover with Mario and Sonic due to different play types and not being able to decide whose world is should take place in which honestly sounds like laziness to me.
But Paper Mario: The Sonic Chronicles could be interesting. The plot goes that Bowser's kidnaps Peach in order to lure Mario and Luigi to his castle but his trap is to suck them into an alternate dimension with a portal device he created but of course the device goes haywire sucking Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser and his minions into the dimension as well.
Mario wakes up in a strange world to be rescued by a blue hedgehog and his friends and learns he's in Mobius. YES Sonic's home world is called Mobius and if you try to correct me YOU ARE WRONG!! But Sonic introduces himself and offers to help Mario find his way home and figures if they collect the Chaos Emeralds, they can use their power to warp Mario home. After all the Chaos Emeralds, like the Stars are plot Macguffins that are as powerful as the writers want them to be and we need seven of something to collect.
Mario's partners here would be Sonic and pals, each of them lending their powers like Sonic making Mario move faster (like the baby Yoshi did), Amy can smash rocks with her hammer. Tails can carry Mario over short distances like Parakarry. You get the idea. Maybe for something different, you can have 2 partners in battle or team up for combined attacks as in Chrono Trigger or as in Sonic's own RPG Sonic Chronicles. Plus the gamepad lends itself well to RPGs with the screen used for inventory and menus and maps. Plus Mario would be in a new location, traveling through Sonic's various levels like Green Hill, Casino, etc. Also who wouldn't want to see Sonic's world in the paper style?
Of course Bowser and Eggman meet up and team up to stop Mario and Sonic from saving the day so you fight both Bowser minons and Eggman bots and even later we could have cool things like koopas in mech suits or robotic versions of Bowser minions.
Hell we could even find something for Peach and Luigi to do. I think a lot of us were upset that we got no side story in Sticker Star of what Peach and Bowser were doing while waiting on Mario to show up. I think Mr. L should come back too. We all loved Luigi's evil version. Luigi lands elsewhere in Mobius, knocked out, he's found by Metal Sonic who brings him to Eggman and Bowser. Luigi comes to but doesn't remember anything so Bowser convinces him he's Mr. L and working for them.
My favorite of the Mario RPGs is still Super Mario RPG but Thousand Year Door is a close second.
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