![]() ![]() The Sticker Comet is said to grant the wishes of those who gaze upon it, but as per usual, Bowser seeks to harness this power for himself, disrupting the festival and laying his hands on the fabled comet. Sticker Star begins on the eve of the Sticker Festival, a kingdom-wide gathering to celebrate the arrival of the Sticker Comet. Not only are they your means of engaging enemies in combat, replacing the various badges that have long been a staple of the series, but they even form the heart of the game’s storyline. As you can gather from the title, stickers play an important role in Paper Mario: Sticker Star. ![]() Much of the success of this marriage hinges on the game’s defining new mechanic, stickers. This makes Sticker Star a sort of melange of Super Paper Mario and The Thousand-Year Door, taking the best aspects of each, culling any extraneous elements, and melding them together into an adventure fit for a portable platform. All throughout the game you’ll notice vestiges of the Wii title still lingering in the game design: areas are now divided up into distinct “levels,” which are laid out on a world map reminiscent of Super Mario World Mario no longer gains experience points by defeating enemies, having instead to find the appropriate items to augment his abilities and party members have been excised completely from the title, leaving the plumber to tackle the world’s problems by himself (well, to an extent). That isn’t to say Sticker Star completely abandons the platforming experiments of Super Paper Mario, though. ![]() This is sure to come as good news for fans who were disappointed by the series’ Wii outing, but that isn’t the only notable aspect of the game Sticker Star also introduces plenty of its own innovations to the fold as well, making it a truly unique take on the series and not just a simple retread of its past glories. After a brief detour into trans-dimensional platforming with Wii’s Super Paper Mario, which eschewed many of the role-playing trappings associated with the franchise for a more streamlined design, Sticker Star embraces its RPG heritage, placing a renewed emphasis on item management and turn-based combat. In some ways, Paper Mario: Sticker Star is a return to form for the series. ![]()
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