I really enjoyed this game. The battle style kept me engaged throught the whole game. When I was consdering buying this game, I saw a lot of negitive reviews saying that it didn't deserve to be a paper mario game, because it's not like the original 2. But here's the thing, paper mairo has not been a strictly rpg seires since TTYD, there are a multitude of relesases in between and it's probably never going to be exactly that anymore. From what I have watch of the orignal two, they are rpgs with papery marioy coat of paint, and from what I can tell with the newer games they are leaning more into the paper part of paper mairo, playing around with the world and what you can do with it.
TLDR
If you like the graphics of Color splash and want a not slog of an experiance play this game. It is good!