GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Paper Mario: The Origami King is celebrating its five-year anniversary today, July 17, 2025. Below, we examine the ways the Paper Mario series has ...

And yet, once again, it breaks my heart with a half-baked combat system. As someone who believes Paper Mario: Sticker Star might very well be the most offensive product released in Nintendo’s long ...

Gamers have come to expect a lot of things out of the Mario franchise, but “get emotional over a bob-omb” is not on the list. It’s things like that separating Paper Mario: The Origami King from its ...

Paper Mario: The Origami King was the third best-selling game of July 2020, and it's quickly become the fastest-selling Paper Mario of all time. The Origami King sales were revealed in the latest NPD ...

Role-playing game not thin on puzzles and depth in Mario’s latest adventure. Mario comes in all different shapes and sizes. Originally known as Jumpman, he battled Donkey Kong to rescue a woman named ...

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This article is over 5 years old and may contain outdated information Literally every single interaction you have in the game is just brimming with charm, creativity, and humor. There are a few ...

At the beginning of Paper Mario: The Origami King, Mario enters Princess Peach's Castle in the Mushroom Kingdom where he finds an evil-looking Princess Peach. The origami Peach speaks to Mario in ...

After the disappointments that were Paper Mario: Sticker Star and Paper Mario: Color Splash, hopes were high that Nintendo would finally get the series back on track with Paper Mario: The Origami King ...

“From the production of Paper Mario: Sticker Star onwards, we were no longer able to graphically represent individual characteristics, such as age, gender etc., in the Toad NPCs (non-playable ...

Entering combat in Paper Mario: The Origami King switches you over to a kind of mini-game. The game will take its time and explain it all to you, but those tutorials will fade from your memory over ...

Nintendo welcomes us back into the world of Paper Mario with Paper Mario: The Origami King. The beloved series took a slight dip in popularity with Color Splash and Sticker Star, but Origami King ...