Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is a turn-based role-playing game and the second entry in the Paper Mario series, set in a world styled to look like paper. Players guide Mario through themed locations, solving puzzles and battling enemies in a timing-based combat system where well-timed button presses strengthen attacks and defense. Battles play out on a stage before an audience whose reactions can help or hinder the player, and Mario recruits a party of companions with unique skills while equipping badges that grant new abilities. Brief segments also let the player control Princess Peach and Bowser between chapters.
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DeveloperIntelligent Systems
PublisherNintendo
ReleasedJuly 22, 2004
StatusReleased
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SeriesPaper Mario
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Must Play92/100
About This Game
When Princess Peach discovers a cryptic map in the seaside settlement of Rogueport that supposedly leads to legendary riches sealed within the Thousand-Year Door—a legendary portal buried beneath the ruins of a civilization lost to the sea—she forwards it to Mario for safekeeping. Before Mario can act, Peach vanishes at the hands of the X-Nauts, a mysterious extraterrestrial faction equally determined to claim the treasure for themselves. Arriving in Rogueport to investigate, Mario learns the map is actually a guide to seven Crystal Stars scattered across different lands, each one essential to unlocking the sealed door and its unknown contents. Accompanied by a growing band of unlikely companions, Mario embarks on a quest to gather the stars, outwit his rivals, and discover what truly awaits behind the ancient threshold.