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Paper Mario Color Splash feels more like walking through a board game or a diorama than like playing a video game on Nintendo’s Wii U console. The fifth game in this side-series, Color Splash also ...

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Mario’s flatter, cuter off-shoot Paper Mario has long proven a welcome foil to his three dimensional counterpart, offering humor, story, and RPG-inspired gameplay in place of pure platforming. The ...

Paper Mario: Color Splash will launch for Wii U in North America and Europe on October 7, Nintendo announced. The action-adventure game sees Prism Island is being drained of its color, and it’s up to ...

Paper Mario: Color Splash is one of those games that looks to the past to help shape the future. Everywhere you look, it’s referencing previous entries in the series, employing nostalgia to create ...

The latest installment in the Paper Mario series will be finally released later this year on Wii U but will it be able to win over the disappointed fanbase. Color Splash is set around Paper Mario ...

Paper Mario: Color Splash was one of the most stylish games on show at E3, quietly tucked away behind closed doors in a corner of Nintendo's booth that few saw. Away from the clamour of Zelda ...

Mario has come in a lot of different styles and shapes over the years, but few have been as memorable as the Paper Mario series. Just like it sounds, the series gives us a 2D cutout version of Mario ...

Paper Mario: Color Splash puts a new spin on the “Mario Paint” idea. Reminiscent of the adhesive gimmickry of Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Color Splash’s main appeal hinges on the joys of painting blank ...

For all the grief Nintendo receives for playing it safe with its marquee franchises, it usually attempts some twist or new gameplay element whenever making another entry in a long-running series. Most ...

The transition of the Paper Mario series from a light, JRPG affair into more of a series of action-platformers hasn’t exactly been smooth. The original game and its sequel, Thousand Year Door, are ...