Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
A remake of the second game in the Paper Mario series, originally released for the Nintendo GameCube. Turn the page and join Mario and friends in an RPG adventure to discover the legendary treasure behind the…
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is an adventure developed by Intelligent Systems, released 23 May 2024 on Nintendo Switch.
What Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is an adventure game developed by Intelligent Systems and released in 2024. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the seedy port town of Rogueport, Princess Peach comes across a mysterious treasure map rumored to lead to a fabled fortune hidden behind the ancient Thousand-Year Door, sealed within ruins built atop a town that sank into the earth after a long-ago cataclysm. Peach sends the map to Mario and then vanishes, prompting him to travel to Rogueport in search of her. There he learns that the map can reveal the seven Crystal Stars needed to unlock the Thousand-Year Door, and that a sinister organization known as the X-Nauts is also hunting for its power. Gathering new companions along the way, Mario sets off across a series of strange and colorful lands to collect the Crystal Stars, rescue the…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Mario series
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is the 654th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Luigi's Mansion 2 HD in 2024. Its critic score of 93 is 16 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.
How it was received
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door holds a critic score of 93 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 17 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door launched on 23 May 2024, within three weeks of Hellblade II: Senua's Saga, Nine Sols, Animal Well and Indika. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 7 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Hellblade II: Senua's Saga, Nine Sols, Animal Well, Indika.
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