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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
Buy New: £29.44
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Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 808
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: platformer-games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: RVL P R8PE
UPC: 045496900151
EAN: 0045496900151
ASIN: B000NNDN1M
Release Date: September 14, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new. Orders despatched within 24-48hrs by first class post from UK
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Product Description
Prepare to enter a whole new dimension with Super Paper Mario on Wii! The planet's favourite plumber returns in the third Paper Mario game, bringing a different perspective to the series as he calls on old friends - and foes - to help him tackle a mysterious enemy from a bizarre parallel universe. Lead Mario in his quest to overthrow the evil Count Bleck before he succeeds in creating a Chaos Heart and bringing about the end of the world as we know it, playing as Luigi, Princess Peach and Bowser along the way as you free them from captivity. With the Wii Remote held sideways like the traditional NES controller, Mario's quest starts off as a classic platform adventure - but appearances can be deceiving! With a press of the A Button, your perspective on the world changes from 2D to 3D, and the seemingly flat worlds gain hidden depth, with plenty of secrets to be discovered. An involving mixture of RPG and platform elements, Super Paper Mario offers a huge adventure spread over eight eye-catching environments with something new to discover around every corner. Enlist the aid of Pixl sidekicks along your path to gain special skills. By pointing the Wii Remote at the screen for example, you can get secret information and reveal hidden objects along the way!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 43 more reviews...
 great August 30, 2007
50 out of 55 found this review helpful
Super Paper Mario is a combination between the RPG and side-scrolling platformer genres. You collect points as you kill enemies, and those points count toward increasing your level. As your level increases, you increase either your HP or your attack power (it alternates, you don't get to choose which one).
As with most games of this type, there are a lot of story-based cut scenes which do have an entertaining story to them, but sometimes get long and tedious, especially at the very beginning, where there's a lot of setup.
You start out the game as Mario, after seeing Luigi, Peach and Bowser all sucked into some kind of dimensional vortex. You set off to find and rescue Peach, and recover 8 Pure Hearts to save the world. Along the way you also have a Pixl friend accompanying you to help you along. You find additional Pixls with different abilities (like creating bombs or giving you a super-stomp ability for flattening large objects). As you progress through the game, you find the other characters and add them to your party, and you'll use their unique abilities in different ways. Mario has the ability to do the dimension flip I'll talk about in a second, Peach can use her umbrella to glide long distances or hide from damage, Bowser can wipe out enemies with fire breath and does double stomping damage, and Luigi has a super-high spring jump. There are also at least a dozen or so Pixls with varying abilities that need to be used in different ways.
The game itself is primarily the usual Super Mario action... you run to the right and jump over obstacles and on enemies. One cool thing is that you can shake the remote up and down after jumping on an enemy to get a bonus score. For enemies that take more than one hit, you can do this repeatedly for increasing bonus points. Sometimes you reach obstacles that you can't jump over. This is where the really interesting part of the game comes in.
Early in the game, you learn the ability of "flipping" which is triggered by pressing the "A" button and turns the game world 90 degrees so you can see a different perspective. For instance, if you are going along and run into a really tall pipe that you can't jump over, flipping may show you a path as simple as just walking around it. Flipping also sometimes reveals hidden treasures or paths.
The game overall provides enough challenge, leading you to switch characters and Pixls frequently to solve puzzles, but without getting tedious and repetitive. The space levels were particularly entertaining.
I expect a casual player can finish the game in approximately 30 hours, and it's fun for adults as well as younger kids. It doesn't rely as much on fine motor control skills and precise jumping (though those certainly can help in some situations), but does focus more on making you think how best to use your characters and Pixls to beat certain obstacles or bosses.
I would really only ding this game on replayability... it doesn't strike me as a game I'm going to be likely to pick up and play again once I've finished it. Not because it's a bad game, but because it just won't be different, so what would be the point?
Super Paper Mario October 4, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Everytime I play Super Paper Mario, I always seem to end up with a smile on my face. It is a fun game to play, with a few jokes added into the game for good measure. Anyone who has played Paper Mario 64 may be in for a suprise when they play Super Paper Mario. Rather than turn-based battles, it goes along the lines of a regular platform game. But it still has some elements of the first two Paper Mario games in it, like leveling up of your characters for example.
It is a good game to play while it lasts, but you may find yourself coming back to it every now and again.
Paper Mario returns for yet another amazing game September 20, 2007
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
As we all know, Paper Mario is an amazing RPG series with some of the most unique graphics ever, topped off with some hilarious humour (for Nintendo fans and others alike), as well as the unique...ish battle style. This time, Intelligent Systems decided to go for a Platformer Style with RPG elements. And did it work?
I'd have to say... Definetley. Super Paper Mario is a brilliant game with unique effects such as using Mario to go into 3-D from 2-D, and even controlling the lovely Princess Peach, Evil King of Koopas Bowser and the coward we all know and love Luigi! Awesome!
The story is like your typical Paper Mario's, where this time, Mario must collect 8 (Yes, 8 not 7) Pure Hearts (Sound familiar? Crystal Stars and Star Spirits ring a bell?) to save the world of Flipside from the evil yet hilarious Count Bleck and his minions, the scotsman O'Chunks, the crazed master of dimensions Dimento and the shape shifting queen Mimi. So a pretty basic story, but since when was Mario known for his story eh?
The game is throughout very entertaining with the abilities wowing you. Going from 2-D to 3-D yet still being paper is brilliant. However, like the past few Mario games, this one is also very short. But there's so much to do to pass time, including making recipes, collecting battle cards and even a new Pit of 100 Trials. And then there's another one straight after, so technically 200 Floors!
To conclude, Super Paper Mario is a definite buy. It's a brilliant game with charms alike that Nintendo fans will love, and the humour is very funny. Especially the nerd Francis.
Beware a glitch though in some copies. Do not talk to Mimi if neccessary in Chapter 2-2. You shouldn't need to anyway. If you get past this you're safe. Enjoy the game!
And kudos to Intelligent Systems for yet another brilliant game!
Amazing game, best released on wii October 27, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just recently bought this game of amazon, and I am totally glad i did, this game is fun, funny and worth the cost, there is lots to do and it will keep you going for a long time.
There are 8 worlds in all, each with 4 chapters and a boss. Starting at 1-1 it slowely introduces you into the game and lets your get to grips with the controls and your ability to flip into 3d, this really is a change on gaming, it allows you to explore places "outside of the box" so to speak.
As you progress you meet pixls there are quite a few to find, and they basically help you do certain things, for example one allows u to pick up stuff and throw, one is a bomb. You can switch between pixls when ever you wish.
There are a number of characters which you can bee, you start of just being mario, but as you progress you unlock new characters to switch to, you can swap between the characters as and when needed while playing.
The music in the game is very cool, and the graphics are ok, for a 2d/3d game i love the paper style graphics, it makes a change from all those games which spend to much time into making the game look amazing and then skipping on the making the gameplay fun.
All i have left to say is, BUY THIS GAME NOW!
This will become more than a game May 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game was so good, someone i know deleted someones college work over it and then began to argue with everyone who gave him abuse, definetly a must buy.
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