Paper Mario: The Origami King (2020)

Intelligent Systems, Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 6

Nintendo Switch

3.70 from 505 ratings

1324 members have it in their collection · 106 playing now · 405 backlogged · 402 wish listed

How long? Main story 30h · with extras 31h · 100% 50h (from 31 logged playthroughs)

Join Mario and his new companion Olivia on a comedic adventure that will take you to the far corners of a papercraft world in Paper Mario: The Origami King on Nintendo Switch! Face off against the Origami King and his army of paper invaders, team up with some extraordinary companions and master magical powers on your quest to save the … Read more
Join Mario and his new companion Olivia on a comedic adventure that will take you to the far corners of a papercraft world in Paper Mario: The Origami King on Nintendo Switch! Face off against the Origami King and his army of paper invaders, team up with some extraordinary companions and master magical powers on your quest to save the world. Unwrap an epic quest! Travel the land, repair the damage done by the Folded Soldiers and rescue Toads trapped in all manner of wacky scrapes! With the help of Olivia’s paper-folding powers, use the far-reaching 1,000 Fold Arms and other paper transformations to save those imprisoned by the Origami King’s henchmen, and help restore peace to the world. Put a stop to King Olly's plans by engaging in battles which will put both your tactical thinking and puzzle solving skills to the test – against his origami army, as well as humongous bosses under his command! Read less
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  • Jul 17, 2020 (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch
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Witt997

Review Witt997 2/5 · Aug 11, 2024

il re degli origami

Mi dispiace molto di averlo abbandonato, poiché adoro la serie di Paper Mario, anche i capitoli 3ds e Wii U. ma questo ha un difetto enorme: il sistema di combattimento, che è orrendo. Troppo lungo per nemici semplici, e punitivo se non riesci a creare la combinazione giusta. Per la prima volta in tanti anni cercavo di evitare gli scontri, …

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Mi dispiace molto di averlo abbandonato, poiché adoro la serie di Paper Mario, anche i capitoli 3ds e Wii U. ma questo ha un difetto enorme: il sistema di combattimento, che è orrendo. Troppo lungo per nemici semplici, e punitivo se non riesci a creare la combinazione giusta. Per la prima volta in tanti anni cercavo di evitare gli scontri, poiché non volevo combattere. per il resto grafica bellissima, e mondo di gioco molto divertente. Proverò in futuro a riprenderlo, sperando che non mi crashi un altra volta... Voto: 6/10

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keka

Review keka 3/5 · Mar 21, 2023

Una tarea más que otra cosa

1 minute ago No he sido capaz de acabarlo. Después de 30 horas de juego me he rendido en intentar forzarme a acabar un juego que no me está divirtiendo. El combate es pesado, el juego es excesivamente largo para lo que es, la historia personalmente no me ha logrado motivar a resolver los puzzles. Jugar a este juego se …

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1 minute ago No he sido capaz de acabarlo. Después de 30 horas de juego me he rendido en intentar forzarme a acabar un juego que no me está divirtiendo. El combate es pesado, el juego es excesivamente largo para lo que es, la historia personalmente no me ha logrado motivar a resolver los puzzles. Jugar a este juego se ha sentido en todo momento como una tarea que debo terminar más que como algo para pasármelo bien. El juego no es malo, pero desde luego no es mi tipo de juego

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bleachguy14

Review bleachguy14 3/5 · Mar 14, 2021

My Paper Mario: The Origami King Review

Well, Another Installment to the series. As always i hope for the day that they finally give us something on the same scale of Paper Mario 64, Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door or even Super Paper Mario (at this point, i think I'd be ecstatic just for a HD port or collection of these three games on switch.).

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Well, Another Installment to the series. As always i hope for the day that they finally give us something on the same scale of Paper Mario 64, Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door or even Super Paper Mario (at this point, i think I'd be ecstatic just for a HD port or collection of these three games on switch.).

This is the 6th Paper Mario title, and how did it do? Definitely not as great as the first three Paper Mario Titles imo, but Thankfully not as bad as the last two Paper Mario titles, this one stands in the middle of the series for me. Once again for the third time, Nintendo has failed to give us a Paper Mario game that brings back the Exp points, the level ups, the whole reason for wanting to participate in the enemy encounters. But it improved on the Weapons. While they still, sadly, are attacks that will be destroyed after using them, unlike in the last two games, it's not just 1 time use and then it's gone, you actually get a decent amount of uses before the attack breaks, and thankfully plain jump and hammer commends are actually there, so those don't get used up, they just aren't as good.

The big gimmick for this game is the Ring battles/puzzles, terrible idea, just keep the original battle concept, the battles did get boring by the end, but not as quick as they did in the last two games. The other big concept was the whole Confetti schtick which is fine, whatever, we had this since the last game with filling the colorless spots with paint, so they're just trying to keep ideas from the last two games still going forward. The enemies were pretty boring with the origami idea, i just want to fight the paper enemies in normal battles. The bosses!...were complete Trash. Freaking objects that are used to make origami: Stapler, Tape, Rubber Band, etc. it was so dang lame and boring, gimme back unique boss battles, not real life objects.

Now, Those were some of my negative feelings towards the game i guess, let me say what i did enjoy about the game. This game has a good amount of collectables, like i never even finished getting all the collectables, maybe i'd go back to this game someday just to get them.

The exploration of this world is great, and for the first time in a long time, The world in a Paper Mario title actually feels linear and the world is big. Probably even more reason why it saddens me that nintendo still for whatever reason decides to exclude unique paper mario characters in this series anymore and a fun rpg battle system with exp and levels, this could've been better to me if they did. The areas are really impressive though and heck, the water temple's water looked soo good like seriously!

They did somewhat bring back the partner aspect of the good Paper Mario games, where we do actually get our Partners. But one, they're hardly unique, and two, you can't control what they actually do. They don't have their own health gauge and they can't take damage. So it's not really that great.

I'm not sure yet how I'd feel to do a second run in the future. The Story was okay, The exploration was Great and beautiful, everything else, is a improvement from the last two games, but don't come close enough to the original three games. And the battle system in this game game is the part that really makes me drop my rating, you can have beautiful scenery and a okay story, but if the battling is boring as heck, it's not going to make me wanna go through this game again like the older games did. In the end, I'd give this game a Unfortunate 5/10, I really wish i could've gave this a higher score, it definitely had the potential if they just brought back exp and level ups..Maybe we'll get a little bit closer in the 7th title? :/

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LarxiGamer

Review LarxiGamer 4/5 · Nov 18, 2020

Una aventura "plana" con un gran corazón

Origami King es una aventura plana en el sentido de que su historia para pertenecer al género que pertenece no es la mejor de los RPG ni quiere serlo, es una aventura en la que un villano amenaza el mundo que conocemos y hay que quitarlo del medio antes que cumpla su malvado cometido, es una historia que perfectamente habría …

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Origami King es una aventura plana en el sentido de que su historia para pertenecer al género que pertenece no es la mejor de los RPG ni quiere serlo, es una aventura en la que un villano amenaza el mundo que conocemos y hay que quitarlo del medio antes que cumpla su malvado cometido, es una historia que perfectamente habría sido similar si en vez del carismático Rey Olly hubiésemos puesto de nuevo al carismático Bowser, pero aunque mucho puedan considerarla plana por estos motivos, no nos engañemos, cumple lo que presenta y lo cumple con creces, con cariño, con buen hacer y con un enorme corazón. Todo inicia en el reino Champiñón, en un día especial llamado el día del Origami. Mario y Luigi van de camino a buscar a la princesa Peach y el desastre ocurre, alguien ha convertido a la princesa en una figura de Origami, a los secuaces de Bowser y al mismo Bowser, y amenaza con convertir a todo el reino en un reino de papeles doblados, la única salvación será Mario junto a un ayudante súper bien hecho como lo es Olivia, que es la hermana del Rey Olly (el villano). A partir de aquí se deberá viajar por todo el Reino ayudando a los Toads que han sido doblados y convertidos en figuras repartidos por el escenario o presos de diversas formas diferentes, con el fin de obtener el poder suficiente para acceder al castillo de Peach del cual somos invitados a abandonarlo y que se convierte en la guarida del villano hasta el final. Lo que me ha sorprendido de este nuevo Paper Mario es su sistema de combate tan estrafalario y el uso tan divertido de confeti que viene a sustituir al uso de pintura del Color Splash, y es que Intelligent Systems cada nueva entrega que hacen nueva novedad que introducen lo que dota al nuevo producto de más frescor y la sensación de que si bien estás jugando un Paper Mario no es uno igual que el anterior, esto puede o no puede funcionar pero aunque para muchos no funcione y las batallas cada vez tengan menos razón de ser (podrías pasarte el juego solo enfrentándote a los jefes, aunque se haría muy muy largo) el conjunto funciona muy bien y ese estilo de ruleta de combate al menos a mi nunca me ha cansado en mis 30 horas de aventura. Visualmente el título es precioso tanto en portátil como en sobremesa, un uso muy bien escogido de los colores, una representación de papel-cartón majestuosa, un diseño de niveles que si bien no me gusta tanto como el de Color Splash (hemos perdido el backtracking que este tenía) cumple y con creces, esforzándose por darnos territorios enormes como son el desierto o el océano que están muy bien diferenciados entre ellos. Cabe destacar también su increíble imaginación a la hora de representar con papel cosas como las nubes, árboles, poblado samurái, cuevas, alcantarillado... En lo visual la única pega que veo es que a veces al vencer a ciertos enemigos hay una explosión de confeti y monedas como recompensa lo que atañe cierta bajada de FPS en determinadas ocasiones. En cuanto a la BSO decir que la he disfrutado muchísimo con especial atención a los temas para los combates que son muy cañeros (los mejores temas de la saga a mi parecer), una banda sonora alegre en todo momento que acompaña muy bien a la aventura y que hará que tararees en tu cabeza algún tema con el paso de las horas. En lo jugable nos encontramos con un Paper Mario al uso que introduce novedades tan interesantes como el uso de confeti para reparar zonas dañadas el escenario y que es súper satisfactorio tirar confeti y ver como se van pegando en el hueco hasta llenarlo, el uso de una especie de vehículo para moverte por el desierto a gran velocidad, poder tomar el mando de un barco e ir por el océano encontrándote islas y tesoros sumergidos... En general todo funciona a las mil maravillas, todo responde de una forma precisa y perfecta y no hay ninguna pega en este apartado, Nintendo y jugabilidad son sinónimo casi de perfección y esto ha quedado demostrado a lo largo de la historia. Para acabar resalto muchísimo el personaje de Olivia, es la auténtica estrella del juego, bien definida con una motivación clara, un desarrollo efectivo, una compañera que siente que llora que se enfada que sabe seguir adelante, que quiere lo mejor para el reino... una maravilla que hace de la historia algo ameno, divertido y especial. En su conjunto Paper Mario: The Origami King es un título sobresaliente que despunta en lo visual, sonoro, jugabilidad y exploración, el Paper Mario RPG puro que muchos piden no volverá y tampoco se le echa de menos con entregas como esta. 9.5/10

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Space__Explorer

Review Space__Explorer 5/5 · Sep 23, 2020

The signature humor drives this game to greatness

Somehow, the humor never gets old. That's what drove me to finish this game. Kudos to nintendo for innovating with a very original battle system that is easy to get into but very hard to master. Story is nothing memorable but good enough. Overall a 30 plus hour journey that had me either smiling or laughing pretty much the whole …

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Somehow, the humor never gets old. That's what drove me to finish this game. Kudos to nintendo for innovating with a very original battle system that is easy to get into but very hard to master. Story is nothing memorable but good enough. Overall a 30 plus hour journey that had me either smiling or laughing pretty much the whole time and that's something that I pretty much never see in any game I play.

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Inc

Review Inc 4/5 · Sep 1, 2020

Not Paper thin!

Finished! And it was a joy throughout. Creative, up beat, beautiful, big band beats! Even the unique battle system wasn't that frustrating in the end.

It did tail off a bit at the end. But overall, I liked it. Only miserable farts hate on something for what it isn't.

Loto

Review Loto 4/5 · Aug 18, 2020

Really interesting

Even if it looks simple, I could find depth in its themes. I wonder if Color Splash will have something at least similar, because one of the best things OK has done for me is to feel curiosity about the most disliked PM's.

About the combat system, I think it expects more of you than any other average combat system. …

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Even if it looks simple, I could find depth in its themes. I wonder if Color Splash will have something at least similar, because one of the best things OK has done for me is to feel curiosity about the most disliked PM's.

About the combat system, I think it expects more of you than any other average combat system. Feels really nice to solve each one.

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pixelcrypt

Review pixelcrypt 1/5 · Jul 29, 2020

Meh

It felt good at first but it started really dragging and just becoming... boring. Probably good for a kid but not for me, not enough challenge, boring combat, etc.

Lwielder

Review Lwielder 4/5 · Jul 26, 2020

Very fun overall

The game was great! It definitely felt like one of the classic paper Mario games. The combat I was afraid I would hate but ended up loving it. It did get a bit boring towards half through the game but got sucked back in somehow. Might have been the different enemies or the unique bosses. Definitely felt like enemies were …

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The game was great! It definitely felt like one of the classic paper Mario games. The combat I was afraid I would hate but ended up loving it. It did get a bit boring towards half through the game but got sucked back in somehow. Might have been the different enemies or the unique bosses. Definitely felt like enemies were pointless to fight tho at some point I tried to avoid them as much as possible. There felt no point in fighting the regular enemies as there was no real benefit to it. I have never been one for trying to collect everything just cause but if you are into it theres plenty of that! Olivia ended up being the highlight of this game. She was a terrific partner and was adorable throughout the entire journey. Overall this game was a solid entry for a paper mario game. I hope intelligent systems continue to make paper mario games as they have always been solid.

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Inc

Status Inc Jul 17, 2020

First impressions? I like it! It looks great, the soundtrack is banging and it has the charm and light heartedness the Paper Mario series is known for. No complaints there.

The battle system is certainly unique and I need more time with the game to discover all its intricacies and let the battles really ramp up.