If Mario and his partners pull of the action commands correctly, more spectators will join the crowd. As the battle starts to get more chaotic, props will fall down on the combatants, stage crew will accidentally drop lights, and there is even crowd that will get involved with the battle. One of The Thousand-Year Door’s more unique battle features is how the game takes place on a stage. The more Crystal Stars Mario gets, the bigger his star meter gets, which lets him pull off bigger special moves and lets him use the smaller ones more often. One of them makes the player try to draw a circle around the enemy as many times as possible to cause damage, while others make them time button-pushing in order to damage the enemy. These mini-games include a variety of things. These moves involve causing massive damage, healing Mario and his partner, and boosting Mario’s attack and defense stats. For these special moves, the player must play a mini-game in battle to receive the benefits. Mario using the special move, Earth Tremor.Īs Mario obtains more Crystal Stars, he gets special moves he can use in battle. However, the enemy has this ability as well. In addition, Mario can jump on top of the enemy or hit them with his hammer outside in the overworld to damage enemies before the battle even begins. The player can also push A or B while being attacked to lower the amount of damage received or do a counter-attack and damage the enemy a small amount. For example, if Mario were to jump on a Goomba, the player could push A right when he lands on the Goomba and Mario will do a double-jump attack. Performing the action commands correctly will yield higher damage.

Instead, they are prompted to do button commands while pulling off the move. Unlike most turn-based RPGs, the player cannot merely pick a move and watch a cinematic. The Thousand-Year Door continues the interactive turn-based battle system that Mario RPGs have been known for. Gameplay Battles Mario engaged in combat. Players also control Bowser in special side-scrolling platformer segments of the game (as he seeks to also capture the Princess for himself). Similar to the previous game, Princess Peach is again kidnapped and is playable at certain points of the game to investigate the motives of her kidnappers (this time being the X-Nauts). Along the way, he must foil the plans of the X-Nauts: a band of extraterrestrials who also seek the Door's treasure to conquer the world. The sequel to the 2001 game Paper Mario, The Thousand-Year Door has our hero Mario embarking on a new quest (with the help of an ancient magical map) to find the seven Crystal Stars used to unlock the Thousand-Year Door, which is believed to have legendary treasure behind it.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (known in Japan as Paper Mario RPG) is a 3D fantasy turn-based RPG developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the GameCube in Japan (on July 22, 2004), North America (on October 11, 2004), and Europe (on November 12, 2004).

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