It's not an excuse if it turns out to be true is it? You might not like it because you've got your big boy britches on now, but me, I'm just happy I was able to play a game starring Mario (my son's favourite video game character) with my 3 year old boy and he was able to enjoy it from start to finish. He helped me do the cutout sections, loved to find unpainted spots for me to paint, he helped me swipe up the cards and choose what card to play, he loved picking cards at the Roshambo Temples and what he was unable to read in the dialogue he was able to understand through what was happening on the screen. And on all the characters being toads and other familiar Mario characters, my son was able to pick characters and name almost all of them because they're characters he's seen before in other games. He liked that the world was full of familiarity.
I loved Paper Mario 2 back in its day, put 100+ hours into multiple 100% playthroughs, but it's really not an exciting game to watch and it takes itself way too seriously at times. The world is fairly bland to look at, there's a lot of dull travel to do, marred with constantly being hit by enemies you don't want to fight. Load times between getting hit and starting a battle is atrocious. I could probably go on about its flaws. Colour Splash stripped all that back and simplified it in a lot of ways, but it also made up for it with fun dialogue and so many different areas each with their own themes and problems to solve.
And yeah you don't like those changes and that's fine, I liked the complexity of the battles and some of the original characters of Paper Mario 1 and 2, and I'm not a huge fan of everyone being a toad, but really I think I got a lot from Colour Splash and I don't regret my purchase of it in the slightest. I'll stand by saying it's a GOOD game. I don't care if people don't like it, I'm happy to defend it for what it is.
It's not an excuse if it turns out to be true is it? You might not like it because you've got your big boy britches on now, but me, I'm just happy I was able to play a game starring Mario (my son's favourite video game character) with my 3 year old boy and he was able to enjoy it from start to finish. He helped me do the cutout sections, loved to find unpainted spots for me to paint, he helped me swipe up the cards and choose what card to play, he loved picking cards at the Roshambo Temples and what he was unable to read in the dialogue he was able to understand through what was happening on the screen. And on all the characters being toads and other familiar Mario characters, my son was able to pick characters and name almost all of them because they're characters he's seen before in other games. He liked that the world was full of familiarity.
I loved Paper Mario 2 back in its day, put 100+ hours into multiple 100% playthroughs, but it's really not an exciting game to watch and it takes itself way too seriously at times. The world is fairly bland to look at, there's a lot of dull travel to do, marred with constantly being hit by enemies you don't want to fight. Load times between getting hit and starting a battle is atrocious. I could probably go on about its flaws. Colour Splash stripped all that back and simplified it in a lot of ways, but it also made up for it with fun dialogue and so many different areas each with their own themes and problems to solve.
And yeah you don't like those changes and that's fine, I liked the complexity of the battles and some of the original characters of Paper Mario 1 and 2, and I'm not a huge fan of everyone being a toad, but really I think I got a lot from Colour Splash and I don't regret my purchase of it in the slightest. I'll stand by saying it's a GOOD game. I don't care if people don't like it, I'm happy to defend it for what it is.
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