That game was Paper Mario: Sticker Star, and even though it wasn’t held in high regard, a new discovery has been unearthed over a decade later to show the game in a new light.

Mario & Luigi: Brothership adds more RPG depth to the series, but its flat writing and overabundance of gimmicks drag it down.

Mario has been around for almost 40 years, with tons of games bringing all sorts of fun and silly items to play and power up with.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door keeps what made the original a classic while adding new content, updated visuals and some welcome quality-of-life improvements.

Paper Mario: Sticker Star is as big a departure from the RPG stylings of the Paper Mario series as Super Paper Mario and offers a unique adventure enjoyable on its own merits.

Paper Mario: Sticker Star's vibrant, buoyant world marries so well with the script's deliciously wry take on Mario's classic tropes. It's just a real shame that the rest of the game feels paper thin.

Paper Mario: Sticker Star for the Nintendo 3DS proves that the game stands up with those elements tweaked, streamlined, and stripped out to focus on exploration and puzzle-solving.

Up the tree, Chain Chomp will continue to chase Mario! Keep running up and climbing up until you reach a vine that launches the pals onto the island with the fourth Hot Spring.

Paper Mario is a spin-off game that evolved into its own franchise that is beloved by many of all ages. From the Nintendo 64, all the way to the Switch.

Indie developers inspired by the original Paper Mario games are picking up the torch.

“Since Paper Mario: Sticker Star, it’s no longer possible to modify Mario characters or to create original characters that touch on the Mario universe,” Kensuke Tanabe, a developer on the ...