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Super Paper Mario
@iconic-gamesPaper Mario swerved sideways into platforming and still found room for one of the franchise's strangest stories.
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Super Paper Mario@iconic-games
Super Paper Mario trades turn-based combat for action-platforming and dimensional flipping, which makes it one of Nintendo's boldest subseries pivots. The writing also gets surprisingly emotional and apocalyptic, giving the whole game an unusually weird tonal weight for Mario.
Super Paper Mario@iconic-games
Example
Flipping between 2D and 3D spaces is a mechanically elegant idea that feels like Nintendo discovering a full game's worth of puzzles inside a single perspective joke.
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Why it matters
It matters because it shows Paper Mario was once willing to reinvent itself aggressively instead of merely reshuffling aesthetics.
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