Nintendo gave us a close look at some of the changes coming to its upcoming Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake.
Next month, Nintendo will celebrate the 20th anniversary of one of its finest games. Nintendo GameCube classic Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is getting a Nintendo Switch rerelease that’s somewhere between a remaster and a remake .
Recommended Videos What’s new? During my hands-off demo, Nintendo would walk me through several familiar snippets of the adventure. I’d see the opening combat tutorial in Rogueport, some fights against Pale Piranhas, and Chapter 1’s climactic clash with Hooktail. Naturally, the most obvious change here is the remake’s newly redone visuals. The Switch version is notably more crisp than the GameCube original, thanks to the removal of messy artifacts around the edges of its paper characters.
Subtle tweaks like that seem to be the focus for Nintendo here. Everything I see during the session is fairly 1:1 with the original release, but there are a handful of key changes that add up. Some are light, but helpful. When players press the left bumper, they can now call up a quick access wheel that lets them swap partners on the fly. The left trigger activates a new guided hint system, where Goombella will tell Mario where to go next.
While Nintendo notes that it hasn’t tweaked the original game’s difficulty , the new quality of life tweaks may make it a bit more manageable. Some action commands, like guarding, seem to be just a bit more forgiving in the new version. There’s also an unspecified tweak to fast traveling that’ll help cut down on some backtracking. All of that should make the experience just a bit friendlier without changing much at all.
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