Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door makes me yearn for weirder Mario
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There’s an apocryphal folktale that fans of Mario RPGs are fond of sharing. Somewhere along the line, the internet urban legend goes, someone at Nintendo — Miyamoto himself, maybe — had it out for Paper Mario. As a result, everything fans loved about the series — the RPG mechanics, the fun twists on classic Mario characters, the elaborate character-driven stories — became verboten. Nintendo can be an opaque company; it is very selective in what it shares and quite zealous in its secrecy, so any...

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