Paper Mario 2 is a very good sequel and is a game RPG fans must play and Mario fans.

User Rating: 9 | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door GC
Paper Mario the Thousand Year is the sequel to the first Paper Mario and is a very good game.

Story

The opening tells you the story of the Thousand Year Door and a Treasure that is inside it. You see Peach at the beginning and someone strange who offers her a map. When you start the game Mario and Luigi are at home and Mario gets a letter from Peach about going to meet her at Rogueport . When he gets there he is attack by X Nauts and Goombella takes Mario to the Prefessor and tells Mario about Peach and they go to the Thousand Year Door to find out where the first Crystal Star is.

Gameplay

This game is so simliar to the first one but in this game you can counter an enemies attack when they attack you with B. You get the hammer as a starter weapon and you get different hammers throughout the game. The battle system gives you an audience and you can appeal to them to give you star power for the star crystals to give you a chance to attack your opponent. When you get each star crystal you get attacks like you did in Paper Mario but this time for some you have to press button combinations to make the attack stronger to do more damage.You can also run away as well if your low on HP or use items like Mushroom,Life Shroom,Syrup,Ice Blast,Thunder Rage and more. You meet allaies throughout the game and they are used for different parts and solving problems in the game one of them helps you defeat an enemy you couldn't get past previously. Mario can this time in the game turn into things. Some boards are different and they give him the chance to turn into an areoplan,boat he can even turn sideways to get through gaps and get a higher jump as well to reach certain areas. Badges give Mario stronger attacks and some give him more coins and stronger hammer attacks as well. You can meet a fortune teller who tells you the next path,Star bit and they can even power up your ally to give them a stronger attack. You play as Mario mostly but you also get to be Peach who tells Mario important things and Bowser who want to kidnap her again. Some Bowser levels are like old school Super Mario Bros levels they don't last long. Each star crystal you get you have to return to the thousnad year door to know where your next location is. Some of the later levels can be annoying with the amount of back tracking is annoying in this game.

Graphics

It maintains the quality graphics of a Gamecube title. It has a very cartoony design and the characters look impressive.

Sound

All the characters in the game you would expect to have voices Mario,Peach,Bowser. Mario sometimes falls alsleep when people are talking like Luigi who tells him about his adventure trying to save Princess Elclair. Bowser makes his roar sounds when he is speaking and sometimes starts laughing. Peach sometimes shocked by what she finds out on her mission. the characters noises are very good as well. The sound effects when you hit an enemy. Everytime Mario jumps he makes a sound in the game and when he is low on HP he starts panting.

Lastabilty

It will take about 10 to 20 hours to complete this game but there is so much in this game that will keep you intrested the Pit of 100 Trials you take on different enemies there and it gets harder and harder and a help center you might want to do a certain task there and there is an arcade which lets you playy a few mini games or you can just come back and search round Rogueport to see if you collect all the star coins.


Overall opinion

It is a very good sequel to a very impressive original it has it's funny moments it this game. The bosses can be a bit easy but some of the backtracking and sidequests can be a bit annoying.