Highlights
- Nintendo has released the intro cutscene for the highly anticipated Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake, showcasing improved visuals.
- Fans can expect new gameplay features in the remake, such as enhanced graphics and possible changes to the inventory system.
- The remake of the beloved GameCube classic is generating strong buzz, already selling out at certain online retailers ahead of its launch.
Nintendo has given fans another glimpse at the remake of 2004’s Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door after releasing the intro cutscene from the game. The video focuses on the jump in visual quality that the Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake will bring.
Back in September last year, during a Nintendo Direct stream, the Japanese gaming giant announced that it was developing a remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for Switch. The reveal trailer showed the graphically improved versions of Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, and more. While the original game released in 2004 for GameCube, the Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake is set to arrive on May 23, 2024 – nearly 20 years later.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door – Every Party Member Explained
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door offers a colorful cast of supporting party members that both old and new players picking the game up will enjoy.
On its official YouTube channel, Nintendo has posted the intro cutscene of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake, showcasing the game’s enhanced graphics and animation. The cutscene introduces the player to the game’s setting and its plot, acting as a sort of quick start guide before the actual gameplay kicks off. Notably, the opening clip gives off an impression of a fairytale novel. In the comments section, a majority of fans praised the new look at the remake and expressed feelings of nostalgia. A fan wrote, “I started crying, not only hearing the opening music but having the entire intro animated touched my childhood so much …”
Apart from visual improvements, Nintendo has incorporated some new gameplay features in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake. This information was confirmed in a press release in which the company stated that the remake contains “enhanced graphics as well as new gameplay features.” While it isn’t yet clear what exactly these new additions to gameplay are, revisiting Nintendo’s work on Super Mario RPG remake, fans can expect to see changes such as a fresh inventory system, autosaving, and the like.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Remake Shows Strong Promise
In the GameCube era, the original Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door tasted significant success, quickly emerging as one of the best games on the console. Unsurprisingly, fans had been clamoring for a remake for the past few years. The original game’s status among Mario fans has ensured that there is a strong hype for its Switch remake. As a matter of fact, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake has already sold out at certain online retailers months ahead of launch.
The strong number of pre-orders and the general anticipation leading up to the launch of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake is promising, to say the least. For Nintendo, which is navigating through the final years of its Switch console, the game could likely be one of the last blockbuster launches on the platform. Moreover, as it faces steadily dwindling Switch sales, the forthcoming remake could give the console one of its final sales boosts.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2024)
A modern version of the classic 2004 RPG, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for the Nintendo Switch features upgraded graphics along with other changes intended to make the game as accessible as possible.
- Released
- May 23, 2024
- Developer(s)
- Nintendo
- Publisher(s)
- Nintendo
