hurrah

Professor Layton at the end of October? Better than November. Can't wait for Layton and Paper Mario.

dang, close to my birthday
nice

new pm is gonna be shit nintendo blew it

flavio is just mad because he doesn't believe he can be the super star sticker master

yeah a new pm will never be as good at ttyd ):

As a game, Super Paper Mario was the best in the series; PM was a standard JRPG (Complete with an incredibly low difficulty level and a lack of strategy), though slightly tweaked with the addition of time-based commands (If I'm correct, though, did not Super Mario RPG have that element, as well? I have not played the game), and TTYD did not improve much upon it, mechanically, at all (I do like the aesthetics and hilarious script that came packaged with the game, though).
Sticker Star looks like it might have took quite a large step away from TTYD, though, so I'm looking forward to seeing if it matches or exceeds the raw entertainment value of Super Paper Mario.

how can you even
crump
what

>standard JRPG
>black mage avatar
I do not understand.

...do you know what a jrpg is? its a little different than the basic rpg like paper mario...

JRPG does not mean anything other than "Japanese Role-Playing Game," which Paper Mario is described as (Although, most games CALLED JRPGs are not actually "role-playing games;" the term itself is also fairly meaningless, as explained in icycalm's article "On Role-Playing Games." Really, without choice and consequence, Paper Mario isn't much of an RPG at all.).

I swear if this shit has like 10 levels or something.
The six worlds and small map are making me nervous.

only 6? and how small is the map?

Crump is right. There's a lot more freedom for skill to increase in Super Paper Mario. You learn how to chain jumps and basically all the regular Mario stuff. In TTYD, once you learn how to press B, you've won the game.

It's not really that simple though, the timing for pushing B is incredibly difficult and I'm pretty sure you can't get it 100% of the time if you're human like everyone else. There are also other mechanics such as badges and partners, that are important to know because you can't rely on having perfect timing every single time you get attacked. Not to mention the out of combat puzzle solving. TTYD isn't the "press B to win" game you think it is.

TTYD doesn't even have damage in the triple digits.

actually, it does...if you play the game a certain way

besides, if your point is that low numbers = easy, then you are completely wrong. it depends on how you scale damage to health and magic/power. you cant look at every rpg working the same way as your favorite one. there are many variables that control each factor and a game can range in difficulty based on what each variable is set at.

>action commands were incredibly difficult
no, they were easy as *crag* especially compared to the ones in SMRPG, M&L or the sound battle system in Mother 3

I'm sorry, I don't spend all *crag*ing day mastering when to press a god damn button.

the action command where you press A is easy but the TIMING for pressing B is hard
but w/e you prolly are going to tell me its easy and that i suck at video games but i honestly dont care

Are you guys saying Super Paper Mario wasn't easy as well? There was barely any challenge outside of the final dungeon, which was mostly because of the constant party switching or puzzles. For nearly the whole game, put Bowser on Carrie and you've won.
The game was also pretty damn boring at points, and it didn't have nearly as much soul as TTYD. The pixls had no personality and the stages were bland; they were just one obstacle after another. It's like they didn't care about giving the game a soul outside of the rare cutscene or two.
TTYD isn't that hard of a game, but it still presented challenge with enjoyable combat and great areas. SPM really doesn't compare.
(And Tails, it's not like the last digit in any RPG health count ever mattered, since enemies never do one damage. It's like Pokemon cards having 100 health, even though attacks don't do less than ten. It's just making it seem bigger than it is.)

mario rpg was much manlier than paper mario

I can't disagree with that. I don't think there's been a bad Mario RPG yet.

>Super Paper Mario was the best in the series

Stopped reading there, c'mon crump step it up.

Yeah super paper mario is actually a pretty easy game, with way too much reading and dialogue that isn't even very interesting most of the time. its less complicated than ttyd and the original imo, you can win the whole game by just knowing how to not get hit by enemies pretty much, save a few puzzles (the puzzles in spm were bullshit btw, memorizing unnecessarily long numbers and combinations is pretty stupid.)

actually nas i have super guard timing absolutely perfect js

good for you

i beat the iron cleft twins without using yoshi

Isn't there like a badge that makes that possible
i think i tried it once but it didn't work

I played through the whole game without saving once

i unlocked the secret chapter where mario goes to bowser's castle

i got the secret god mode where you do over 100 damage to everything even bosses

everyone has that nas you dumbo

everyone

i was *crag*ing around like everyone else ok

My personal favorite mario rpgs are the M&L games. Excellent storylines, memorable characters, and a nice difficulty level. I just hope that Fawful didn't actually die.