But, when you look at the rich tapestry of delightful weirdness on display in something like The Thousand Year Door, it’s not difficult to see why many people feel the series isn’t reaching its full potential.įor the record, I’m enjoying Origami King. To be fair, Intelligent Systems has got better at working within these restrictions over the years, and the new battle systems have got less bad. ‘Innovating’ the core mechanics is all well and good, but when it still feels like the overall scope of of the game is being throttled by needless creative restrictions, it’s less likely to be welcomed as ‘innovation’ as more as ‘unnecessary tinkering’. TTYD had ideas never before seen in a Mario game, and it just ran, and ran, and ran with them.Ĭentering the entire debate around the battle system largely misses the point (although admittedly, a bad battle system can ruin an otherwise good game). They fell in love with it for the depth, eccentricity, and imagination poured into its worlds and characters. But people never really fell in love with Paper Mario for its innovative battle system. They just weren’t exceptional, save for the addition of timed button inputs (one of the few things that has remained consistent throughout the series). In the way that pretty much every standard RPG battle system is good.
I mean, let’s be honest, the battle mechanics of the first two games weren’t exactly anything particularly exceptional. I feel that the concept of ‘innovation’ with the Paper Mario series is a rather narrowly viewed as being simply about the core mechanics.
While the core ideas of BotW can be traced all the way back to the original Zelda on the NES, the scale is vastly expanded and reimagined on new hardware. Compare the jump between Sw/Sh and S/M to something like BotW and Skyward Sword, and there’s a clear gap in ambition. The most recent Pokemon games - as overblown as their faults were - can be quite fairly said to not harness the full potential of the Switch in moving the series forward. I find it funny that Pokemon gets bashed for “not innovating enough”, while Paper Mario gets bashed for “innovating too much”.Įxcept I sort of don’t because phrasing thing in terms of ‘degree of innovation’ doesn’t present an accurate picture. At the same time, there’s no guarantee that we’ll always succeed in doing that – so it’s a real challenge.” We always try our best to exceed expectations in surprising ways. If we used the same gameplay system wanted by the fans again and again, we wouldn’t be able to surprise them or deliver new gameplay experiences. However, I view my game development philosophy as separate from that. Miyamoto is developing innovative and unique gameplay systems. “The game development philosophy I’ve adopted from Mr. His own philosophy (adopted from Shigeru Miyamoto) is to develop "innovative and unique" gameplay. With this in mind - during a recent interview with Eurogamer Germany (as translated by Nintendo Everything), series' producer Kensuke Tanabe took the opportunity to explain how the "same" systems requested by fans time and time again wouldn't allow the development team to deliver new gameplay experiences or surprise players. It gave some members of the Nintendo community high hopes the next entry would perhaps embrace the series' traditional RPG roots. The new Paper Mario for the Switch was originally rumoured to be returning the series to form.
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