Paper Mario: The Origami King tries really hard to make a good first impression. The game’s art style is dressed up to dazzle, the gameplay is simple and approachable, and the music is among the best ...

Gamers have come to expect a lot of things out of the Mario franchise, but “get emotional over a bob-omb” is not on the list. It’s things like that separating Paper Mario: The Origami King from its ...

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At the beginning of Paper Mario: The Origami King, Mario enters Princess Peach's Castle in the Mushroom Kingdom where he finds an evil-looking Princess Peach. The origami Peach speaks to Mario in ...

Entering combat in Paper Mario: The Origami King switches you over to a kind of mini-game. The game will take its time and explain it all to you, but those tutorials will fade from your memory over ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Paper Mario: The Origami King is celebrating its five-year anniversary today, July 17, 2025. Below, we examine the ways the Paper Mario series has ...

I’m well aware that it has been way over a month since Paper Mario: The Origami King launched on the Nintendo Switch, but I was pulled away by Ghost of Tsushima over on the PS4 –it’s incredible and ...

After the disappointments that were Paper Mario: Sticker Star and Paper Mario: Color Splash, hopes were high that Nintendo would finally get the series back on track with Paper Mario: The Origami King ...

The team behind Paper Mario: The Origami King recently confirmed that it was given "almost complete control" over the direction the game went in. The news comes from a report published by Eurogamer ...

Nintendo promised to fix a nasty bug in Paper Mario: The Origami King that stops players from beating the game. “We are aware of reports about issues affecting some players of Paper Mario: The Origami ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Paper Mario series thrives on a clever irreverence that can be hard to maintain. Its outlandish scenarios mash the absurdist, dreamlike world of ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Paper Mario: The Origami King What do Red Koopa Troopas think about as they’re shuffling back and forth all day on top of platforms? Where do Shy Guys go on ...