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Paper Mario fan of PM64 and TTYD
First things first, the game's visuals, music and sound effects are beautifully made. Definitely so much better than Sticker Star and Color Splash. The story was very well written (although Olivia talks too much) and there was great emotional moments. Toad Town was TOO bright in my opinion, even with the brightness setting to 0, it was still blinding. Other than that every landscape was very cool and done well. Open world definitely made the game much more exciting rather than level-based. The game was pretty fun but the combat gets annoying after a while. Its more of puzzles than battling at this point, the return of Jumping and Hammering on enemies is definitely better than stupid-wacky attacks. The new breaking feature of the weapons was actually not bad and I rarely had to go to shop to restock.
The game was fun and its not bad, definitely an improvement but of course its what no one really asked for. What we get, is what we get.