this is a very venty post don't mind me :D

that nintendo direct was so horrible.

it was literally like 80 percent remakes and remasters.

never in my life have i seen an announcement video exist just to say "every game you've ever known since the 90s is being remade/remastered, sorry, we ran out of originality".

literally like all the video game market is anymore is remakes and the movie industry is just as bad.

the nso releases are fine because they're not like, remakes taking up full game slots. they're old games that are being made accessible and that's great... but there's no need to remake this many games when they can do that. remakes used to be rare. remember stuff like the wii u shop and stuff? with all the games they had on those things? now it's a tiny selection and everything else is a remake :/

also I feel like a lot of new rpgs are just like... lowkey fe knockoffs now instead of original rpgs.

i'm happy for like... two existing remakes, but one of them is mario rpg which people wanted waaaaAAAAAYYYY before the remake and remaster era, and the other is baten kaitos which im not actually happy about remaster-wise (the updated ui is trash, they took out very specific charms of the original ui), just happy that it will get more recognition/notice from people since it was never popular.

they also completely removed the english voice acting which like okay yeah it wasn't always that great but the voices fit perfectly and it wasn't as bad as fans meme on it for! it just sounded like they were talking through a tube and that was actually the worst part of it lol.

someone suggested to me that they may have just lost the data for it, but idk. i wish they'd just admit that somehow if it was the case, because it bugs me that the english audio is just completely gone when ultimately i really liked it. i wanted the game to be accessible to newer players, sure, but i also wanted the english audio there. ig that's because i grew up with it and i liked it, but it's still such a bummer for me!

paper mario being put on the nso and tyd getting a whole remaster does make me sad tho bc it feels like they're leaving the original in the dust when it was so good. if you're gonna do tyd, at least do them both.

good for innersloth though, i'm sure they never imagined being on a nintendo direct. they're the real winners here.

What do you think are the chances of Nintendo making a version of Super Paper Mario for the switch?

As in a remake/remaster version of the game, rather than a port or something through Nintendo Online? I think it depends. On one hand they're still making games for the Paper Mario series, what with Origami King coming out not too long ago. But they LOVE releasing old games onto newer systems-- what with releasing the Mario and Luigi saga onto the 3DS at the time, and then the current Super Mario 3D All Stars.

Considering it was a commercial success on the wii-- and with being a favorite among many fans [though there are some who thinks it deviated too much from the original Paper Mario formula]-- I think it would make sense to remaster it. Seems like easy money to me.

I realized I haven't asked you any questions yet! I should fix that.

It's really fun seeing you so passionate about the Rabbids and discussing theories and headcannons! But now it got me thinking: I recall you said you're interested to try out earlier Rabbids games now that you're pretty much a fan. I imagine that would be an interesting experience because how the Rabbids are depicted in the Mario crossovers is...not really the same as how they're usually depicted in previous installments.

Beyond Rabbids, is there a series you discovered through their latest installment, and then you decide to go backwards and experience a type of whiplash with how much of a different vibe it is?

I know... I actually have my original Rayman Raving Rabbids Wii copy and it's just kinda sitting there, menacingly... I feel like I have to re-confront it someday, to face my nightmares from bygone years, to bear witness to how far we've come. Maybe before the Rayman DLC comes out. That would be... a treat, huh. Lol

Honestly I can't really think of anything, since most game series I love have been in my life for a long time, or they are newer themselves, and when I discover something new I try to start near the beginning. Maybe the closest thing I can think of is Mario RPGs in general? Doesn't really count because it's not exactly the same "series" but I had played through PM64, TTYD and I think also SPM before I played SMRPG and at first I was somewhat confused by SMRPG because it has such a different tone/style and is a very weird and different take on the Mushroom Kingdom. I mean I liked it but I also didn't like it AS much as the Paper Marios (except for the music cuz Yoko don't miss) and I didn't understand why people considered it such an all-time classic. It took me a while to really appreciate it and for it to grow on me, but over time I came to understand why it was so important and beloved, once I placed it in its context for all the groundbreaking things it did that would become key to later games, like its characterization of Bowser and Peach/Toadstool as party members. And its fleshing out of Toads as a diverse species and other stuff that is no longer even allowed 😭

Maybe also Zelda? It's hardly recent by now but OoT was my intro to the series, and later going back to A Link to the Past.... I mean it's fine, I can recognize ALttP is a great and influential game but I also think the Hyrule it depicts is fairly bland (I enjoy the Dark World though) and I just can't get into the mindset of people who think it's still the greatest and most classic Zelda game ever, when I was introduced to a world with Gorons and shit. I don't think I would have been so fascinated by Hyrule if I'd played through it first.

but yea, if you want my opinions on the paper mario games, here they are

i haven’t played paper mario 64 yet, so i cant say anything about that

i can totally understand all the love ttyd gets, it is really kinda that perfect mario rpg thats fun with unique characters and a big story with real weight to it

except i do really love super paper mario more because that game was my childhood and it had a much more grander and personal story than ttyd had, even if that did mean stripping the more traditional rpg elements away from that game to make it alot more palatable to gamers more traditionally accustomated to platformers

sticker star and color splash are fine, obviously, i dont really hate those games. ive never played them (i only played through the beginning of sticker star), and color splash can sometimes get broken, but as far as i know, these games arent as bad as TTYD elitists make them out to be

the origami king not only looks really good, but i have heard both sides on the arguments about the origami king, as you can see in my blogs bio. i havent played it yet, and im planning on getting it sometime soon, but from what i heard, the origami king might be the best paper mario game in this past decade of paper mario games (excluding the paper marios of the 2000s)