Paper Mario: The Origami King is a difficult game for me to wrap my head around at times. I think it’s safe to say at this point that longtime Paper Mario fans want something more in line with the original N64 title or GameCube’s Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. These days, though, Nintendo seems to view the Paper Mario franchise as a more experimental one that doesn’t need to fit into any single genre, thereby causing a rift between it and fans when it comes to the direction Paper Mario should go.

Before we get too deep in the weeds here, I should tell you what my experience with the Paper Mario series is. I played Paper Mario and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door a long, long time ago, closer to the respective release dates of each game.
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