15 Changes We NEED in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door 

Completely disagree on making the "optional" party member "unmissable" - I think the entire point of them being there is to reward people who go out of their way to investigate and learn as much as they can about the world, thereby incentivizing the sidequest system entirely. I get that a lot of the Troubles are bland to complete, but having that character continually show up and NOT become a party member keeps the air of mystery about them. Your "needed" change in that regard would shotgun any desire people have to do the other Troubles, as everyone would just get them regardless. Plus, it feels cool to get a secret extra person that other people might miss! It creates more dialogue around the game!

The biggest change we need, Nintendo needs to sell the OST officially. I want that on vinyl.

I’d actually prefer it if they kept _that_ party member optional. I can’t be the only one who likes it when there’s a secret optional party member or two in an RPG. Only way I wouldn’t like it is if the party member is permanently missable with a short window of opportunity to get them. As for the Yoshi color, I’d like it if maybe a party member said “What color do you think it’ll be?” And if you choose “I don’t know.” It’d be random, but the other options would be the color it’d end up.

Don't nerf the final boss. You already get that free bingo and the game is throwing op items at you like crazy towards the end. It should remain a little bit of a challenge for first-timers.

Great list but I disagree with some of the things (which is ok it's no critic). Saying that it has benefits that the princess is silent is a joke and is totally ok to say even in 2024 in my opinion. There is nothing worse than humor that is tame. I also think it's totally ok to have optional characters that you can miss as long as you can not miss them permanently.

Bowser’s a villain who regularly abducts a woman in the hopes of forcing her to marry him, and “a silent princess has its perks” is the misogynist part? Even as a kid playing this game I knew I wasn’t supposed to agree with him on that statement.

Even if they don't change much of anything I'd still be glad that the game is playable on current gen console.

I say No to Rawk Hawk being the Superboss. If anyone should be the Superboss, it's Prince Mush. Please, give him something to effing do!

I love the notion that if you press a button to skip a cutscene, it first renders a hand over the top right of the screen peeling a page out, and if you press it again to confirm it'd pull the page over. Considering this is a storybook, that'd be amazing. Maybe even many pages depending on the time left in the cutscene.

I disagree with the pipe in Chapter 4. I feel like the backtracking in that chapter is meant to show you how weak you are without your partners and how much you need them. It also gives you time to think of the identity problem you are currently going through and later on it gives you time to bond with Vivian before she leaves briefly. It also makes her choosing to side with you in the end feel more like a heartfelt decision. A pipe there would make the chapter easier for repeat playthroughs, but I feel that the story being told would take a hit on that first playthrough for newcomers

The biggest thing to change in the remake is make it so that I can accept all the Troubles at once. Having to return to the Trouble Center like 50 times if you want to complete them all is so annoying and serves no other purpose other than to pad it out.

I honestly believe making 'that' party member optional makes them more special, it rewards you interacting with the world and side quest system, and second, maybe I'm weird, but removing the RNG of Yoshi's color takes away from the event and reveal itself, like it makes Yoshi more of a slightly customizable 'tool' instead of their own character, this last part may be a stretch, but I'm trying to justify the unique way that their design being randomly generated adds to the unique experience for each playthrough.

I actually disagree with most of these. I think the speedy spin would help a lot with the pacing so I’d like that, but the world design isn’t all that inconvenient and some people (me) like backtracking and I think it adds a lot to the game. The random elements like yosh’s design and the stage props make each play through unique. If that’s customizable it takes a lot of the charm out of this game which is know for its charm. I like the difficult final boss, and I’d hate for them to babify the combat like they did with Mario RPG. Missable party members make for a cool surprise on a playthrough where you do find them. It’s okay to miss content because that adds variety. I find it hard to go back to a game that’s just the same thing every time because I’ve already experienced it before.

Can I hear people's thoughts on this? A QoL feature (that can be turned off) which let's you send overencombered items straight to the item storage systems in stores. No more having to juggle items and often sending some to be wasted, but still keeping just 10 (or 20) when outside of Stores

Why would bowser being an asshole about women not fly in 2024? He's supposed to be an asshole, it's not like you as the player are being asked to agree with him.

Okay, two things about the optional party member: 1. You said they are "missable" and I get what you mean, but by "missable" most people think of something that's gone forever if you don't get it until a certain deadline, which isn't the case here. 2. About your hint - it's after chapter 4, not 3.

Honestly, I feel like the world isn't that big, and so the minor backtracking isn't all that bad. I've played this game more times than I can count, and the only time I might want fast travel is General White's quest, but even then the blue pipes make it pretty quick. Also, I enjoy the world so much that going back to the different places is a lot of fun!

Missed opportunity to talk about having the old partners around in the world or even having them as fights in the glizt pit; Maybe if you beat them they become optional party members they won't appear in cutscenes but you can use them in battle. That's something I'd love to see!

One of the changes I hope Nintendo would do with the remaster is to include all of the original N64 party members into post-game content. In the original, only two party members made appearances. Parakarry's cameo at the beginning of the story, and Bow alongside Bootler in Poshley Heights. Nintendo originally had planned to include the rest of the party members as well, but due to reasons unknown, they were scrapped from the final version. Most likely due to time constraints, as Nintendo back in the day would often rush their products in order to meet the deadline. It would be cool to see Goombella interact with Goombario, or Bombette with Admiral Bobbery. Another change I wouldn't mind happening is the boss rematches and maybe interact with some of them too. I would very much like to see Hooktail again after her appearance in Chapter 1, maybe include a side quest involving both Hooktail and Koops' father, Koopley, but that's just me. One final change I wouldn't mind happening as well is playing Super Bowser Bros. again, since you can only play as Bowser in between chapters in the original with no way of replaying that fun minigame. Post-game perhaps? That's all the changes I want or wouldn't mind happening in the remake.

The one issue with using the map to fast travel would be THAT part of Chapter 4. Being able to warp all over would completely break it. The #1 change I want is a proper rebalancing of certain badges and partners. The optional party member is comically bad compared to the rest of the partners, which is both hilarious and depressing considering you have to go out of your way to recruit them. There are also a ton of badges that you basically never want to use under any circumstances, like HP and FP Drain, Hammer Throw, Pity Flower, etc.

Letting you skip dialogue is rpg rule 1 *modern pokemon games still not having a skip cutscene button even for replays*

why would Bowser who is an evil villain who kidnaps women and takes over kingdoms be above saying something misogynistic? like hes the bad guy what do you expect? like kidnapping women is okay to you but telling a woman to be silent is where you draw the line

I'll be down for a Paper Luigi game or DLC. Also, if you see the Goomba King and not the Chesnut King in either Luigi's story from himself, partners, or books, or from the trailer, it turns out that the Chestnut King is a mistranslation.

Id rather the optional party member stay optional but get a buff that makes them worth using. For the most part they are outclassed by all the other party members and there's only one case where you pull them out. There's little to no reason to upgrade them

As long as it still has all the jokes with Peach repeatedly getting naked 😂

I think one qol change they need to do is to let you skip a certain cutscene if you fail a certain boss

No offense, but I disagree with basically all of these changes, with the sole exception MAYBE being ‘a pipe between Creepy Steeple and Twilight Town’. If you could unlock that after you go to Creepy Steeple the second time (where you get ‘you know what’ to tell ‘you know who’ what they want to be told); so that you still feel rewarded after having done the trip two or three times.

I wouldn't change a thing about the game other than an accessibility feature for players that get lost while backtracking. Some sort of journal of what you were up to would be nice. Especially when you revisit a save after a break from the game.

The only thing I want is a way to refight the Chapter bosses. Maybe they can get TEC to actually have something to do with that.

For a Glitz pit revisit, they could bring back characters from other PM games. Wouldn't the Koopa Bros fit the setting?

We really need a Paper Luigi: The Marvelous Compass side-quest for the remake. We also need a Super Paper Mario remake for either Fall 2026 or Spring 2027.

One thing I'd like to see added to the remake is the ability to undertake multiple side quests from the Trouble Center at once (which is something Bug Fables lets you do). Being forced one side quest at a time is not fun and makes just about any game that does this tedious and monotonous, and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (as amazing this game is) is no exception.

I get that this game is already near perfect, but this list still feels rather nitpicky. The thing I love about this game is that I always learn something new about it when I replay it, and it's a short enough game to encourage a replay. During my second replay, I discovered the optional party member. On a third, I found out that Yoshi can have different colors (I got green both times before). And even further still, on a fourth revisit, I discovered the optional boss in the Creepy Steeple. It's those new discoveries or one in a million battle affects that kept me coming back and solidify this game as my number one game.

I agree with some of these, but NO nerfing the final boss, and NO adding a save in the pit of 100 trials!!

Here's my opinion on how to improve the back tracking, the blue pipes in Rogueport sewers should have multiple destinations, like take the Petalburg blue pipe for example, upon entering the blue pipe you can choose to go to either Petalburg or Hooktail's castle and there should also be a shortcut to the shortcut room in main Rogueport, there should also be a pipe that goes from Creepy Steeple to just outside Twilight Town and it only becomes accessible when you first have to go back

GVG: "Here are 15 Changes We NEED in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door." Nintendo: "Okay.... Here's a change for ya.... *original GameCube version 60 FPS -> Remastered Switch version 30 FPS.* Hope you enjoy it! lol"

Yuffie and Vincent were completely optional. Suikoden has always been full of missable party members. Not a deal breaker at all for me.

Actually, the vast majority of your audience would have experienced RPGs through Pokemon rather than any Mario RPG.

The remake running at 60FPS would be nice

My biggest gripe with TTYD is that there is only ONE battle theme throughout the whole game

3:15 I'm not sure if I got it right. So you think, what Bowser is saying is misogynistic, so they should patch it out? It already annoys me when the good guys aren't allowed to say things which are not considered moral by the moral standards of mainstream western culture, but especially bad guys should be allowed to say things.

3:21 Reminder that Bowser is a villain. Him saying problematic stuff is not out of character for him.

Well I've got my own few requests or hopes 1. Make Twilight trail some kind of loop to make the trips there less redundant by adding 3-4 more maps you loop through to twilight town 2. Give us a badge that prevents partners from consuming life shrooms 3. give us a setting to reduce certain animation times, some star power attacks have really long animations where your input isn't required, rolling into a toilet paper roll also takes so long as well as paper plane and paper boat. 4. give us a way to purchase hints for tattle log/ recipe book / badge log, sometimes you're missing like 1 of each and can't find them for the love of it. YOu also don't wanna look it up online 5. add some sort of paper mario 64 content, either a boss rush or something deeper. You can't just play the 64 theme remixed in your trailer and not do something related :C 6. Make doopliss tougher... let him take my badge setup and leave me with nothing, he's such a pushover, yet my favorite boss and he somewhat already uses some of the badges I equipped... so why not all of them? 7. add more enemy variants, also I would love to see some super roadblock bosses like Kent C. Koopa in the original that prevent you from going back to a previous area by normal travel untill you defeat them 8. Add some more eastereggs perhaps related to newer games 9. Make the minigames peach plays worth while. In the N64 one she was able to collect items and send them to mario, performing well in certain parts of the game rewarded you with a royal jelly. 10. Add a hard mode or enemy HP multiplier, something to increase the challenge for more experienced players 11. Make space food's Allergic status 100% ... I really hate the rng and there's no other way to get it 12. Add more costume badges... Maybe I do feel like finishing the whole game as shadow Mario. Also Make the L emblem, W emblem and the combined one look like the actual character... kinda would love that. 13. GIve us NG+ ;-; sometimes I do wanna beat up hooktail with 20 power rushes just cause I feel like it. 14. Remove stat caps... if I wanna put 100 levels into BP please just let me do that not like it makes that much of a difference. 15. please do not remove the Flavio adventure glitch ;-; he adds so much to the story and even makes the pit feel like mere minutes. He ain't afraid of Bonetail. 16. For boss replays I'd love to see both Magnus Van grapples in one battle and all 3 dragons... some really ridiculous stuff for an X-boss rush.

we NEED a fully fleshed out, playable Luigi's Story, either as a chapter interim (after Bowser) or as a side adventure, like Bowser's Minions, Bowser's Fury, stuff like that.

Honestly at this point I feel like we’re lucky to even get a remake/remaster. So I doubt they’ll make any changes to the general quest

Nerfing the final boss seems like anything except a net positive, it's so common for fans to complain about changes to the original, specially when games are made easier than the original, just take a look at Super Mario RPG, so any returning fan finding out the last boss was taken down a peg could result in a slightly bad taste in the mouth.

I hope they bring back the chalk-outline of that dead toad.

Fast travel: I feel like it's not worth having in most games. It guts the world. Instead of fast travel, the world should be more fun to navigate. Speedy Spin is one way to achieve that. General White: The real problem is that the quest is boring. Nothing happens at every town you revisit, aside from some NPC telling you the general's in another castle. This would be much better if it happened after some bigger change that unlocked new exploration in these places. Say, when you get the quest, you obtain some new movement ability that allows you to obtain items that were just out of reach before. New enemies try to stop you from finding the general, so there's some interesting combat. Things like that.

As someone who has never played the original, i hope they keep the optional party member optional. I feel like they arent gonna change a lot in this remake. Their other rpgs havent really changed a lot from the original game (thankfully)

just realized that the slots are probably going to be removed to keep the age rating down

I will NEVER understand the complaints about the backtracking. Aside from the General White quest, it's something that i didn't even notice much of when i first played the game. This feels like something people like to blow up as a major thing just because there’s not a lot else to complain about for this game. In reality, it's an incredibly minor nitpick.

I cannot wait for this game! @GVG There is one thing you forgot to add in your wishlist for this game and that is that there should be GameCube Controller support because I really love playing this game with that controller and feeling the clickiness of the buttons, When attacks are made.

2:18-7:54 I can't believe you thought having that song play for this long was ok. That was the most annoying choice you could have made for bgm.

Bowser is the bad guy, he's not supposed to be nice

The way to fix backtracking isn't to remove it entirely. Backtracking is fine when done well. The important thing is new encounters or challenges need to happen on the way to distract the player from it. Paper Mario 64 is great with this. After chapter 1, 3, and 5, when you're backtracking back to Toad Town, a whole boss battle happens. That's a huge distraction! The general white backtracking could be fine if they put some decent distractions on the way. Being able to skip cutscenes is a given and every video game ever at this point should have the feature. I got so irritated when replaying Banjo Kazooie and Tooie as you have to watch the very long opening cutscenes. Ms. Mowz needs a character rehaul. She's awful to play with and is only useful for stealing items/badges from enemies (but she can only do that to the front enemy). All three of her other attacks are awful and need to be replaced with better ones. I don't think much else needs to be done.

More dialogue between party members.

I have wanted to play a Paper Luigi companion game to Thousand Year Door for twenty years. Don't get my hopes up again!

I would LOVE buffs to the less powerful party members. Some of them are particularly bad (you know the one) but others just fall off hard when compared to the stand outs.

They need to add an optional hard mode. The final boss difficulty should not be touched in the base game. That boss is supposed to be intimating and perceived as one of the most vile and evil entities in not only the mushroom kingdom but the entire canonical planet. When you defeat it, it needs to make the player feel like they won an impossible battle of epic proportions. I would say just make the cut scene skippable.

100% agree on fast travel. I tried and gave up multiple times going for 100% completion because traveling is such a slog. Also yeah a little more on Luigi would be cool

I hope they add some new content, that's all I want

1- reminder that Bowser is a Villain, & contrary to what Steven Universe says, they are bad people who do bad things 2- nah, having Optional party members, heck, Optional AREAS in an RPG is the opposite of a travesti, is the biggest reward for exploring which is what you want your players to do anyway. If anything i would love if they added both new Missible party members AND a whole new area 3- or, even better, make the Yoshi Color a reward for the quest 4- yeah, Speedy Spin should be a regular movement option not a badge 5- nah, Rawk Hawk being all bark & no bite IS th joke

If they’re going to change how the Yoshi colors work then I’d like it if they gave you a way to change his color, like with an item or some shop or something. Because otherwise it’s hard for me to be willing to commit to a color other than the default green.

Changes we need; An NPC named Daniel who's a newhire at Podley's

Surprised you didn't say "let you accept multiple quests at once". I don't agree with changing how the Yoshi colors work or making the optional partner obligatory. I agree on bringing back the spin from 64 and adding more pipes for backtracking, but big no on backtracking by using the Map. The stage random elements should stay the same, it's all part of that Paper Mario TTYD charm. And hey, you don't need to wait until the endgame to do 50 floors of the Pit to get that "useful" item.

as someone who has played the OG PMTTYD all i want for the remake is NG+

Bowser is a villain. How are people trying to make him virtuous?! Lol

I’m so excited for TTYD Remake, i hope they made a Side Story on Luigi’s adventures

Paper Luigi would be an awesome dlc expansion. Especially on the 10th anniversary of the year of Luigi.

All we need is a Shy Guy partner then it'll be a perfect game

i can get behind some obscure way to pick the yoshi color, considering most veterans are going to consistently get green simply for knowing what to do. Do i want it to be a simple selector? Probably not, especially since it better hints at the contents of the egg when it is kinda meant to be a surprise, but the game could easily add some random prompts before the egg hatches that dictates the color, and if those prompts are hidden (maybe like sticker star's wiggler diary, but done well), only return players looking to control the color would go out of their way to de-randomize it. Either that, or take the randomizer one step further and make it completely unpredictable so the same route with the same execution gets different colors on different files, even if it remains consistent through the file itself when reloading. As for the luigi side mode, i have always been torn. If you look at the story he tells in all its forms, it becomes clear he is parroting your adventure back at you, changing enough details to try and make it seem like more than a fantasy. Getting a full game out of it would be derivative, and adding an image to his retelling kinda undermines the sleeping joke. Realistically, the best i can see is a NG+ reskin of the adventure with different partners, but is that too much effort for a remake, and would the new partners even function enough to get through the adventure.

Admiral Bobbery and Goombella are my faves for sure. I love Goombella’s sassy attitude, and Bobbery’s theme lives rent free in my head

lol call me crazy but i don't want the script of this contender for "best written game ever" to be changed decades later. pretty dumb

Point and click fast travel once you’ve unlocked a point is the best of best ideas.

I feel like an easy fix for the final boss (or bosses in general) would be if they just add a simple “quick retry” feature if you lose. The final boss is hard but still perfectly manageable as it is. Adding a quick retry option would just put you right back at the start of the fight. No need to nerf it, and no need to go through the super long cutscene again whenever you lose.

First change: Don't let it continue to remain the last turn-based Paper Mario game with the partner system, hammer and boots moveset for Mario, and badge points.

I really hope they make a Luigi dlc, I can't imagine they would go through the trouble of making it and just not advertise it, but maybe adding it as dlc later on can be a possibility.

Can bad guys still say bad guy stuff because they are bad guys? It makes them more fun to beat up. We know Bowser is toxic. The movie made him toxic. Nothing about Bowser should be like "Oh he's misunderstood, I can fix him!" No, he's *toxic* and it makes him fun to beat up!

I have original, i just hope they give the option to switch between old and new sound tracks like how ffx remastered did. Also please please no day one patch, i want a complete game.

11:24 I played this game a million times and I NEVER SEEN THAT METEOR EFFECT!! It blew my god damn mind!

I'd rather worry about the 30 FPS cap instead of a thrown away line from bowser. Seriously, man.

Please bring Speedy Spin back

Honestly the replacement of a badge for the mouse partner was pretty awesome. Also it's not like you need that partner to win the game. I would love to see something like Paper Mario RPG. Where they have different challenge modes.

Have said optional party member be a reward for getting a certain depth down the Pit of 100 Trials. The scenario for such a change basically writes itself, and the pit is actually difficult and interesting enough to warrant such a major reward being in there.

6:50 A way to change the Yoshi color sounds nice. Maybe you would be able to change it later using some item you get. An opportunity for extra collectibles.

*Add Rawk Hawk as a 2nd optional party member* After revisiting the glitz pit, you have to refight everyone including the rockman Rawk Hawk It would be awesome if Rawk Hawk reached an epiphany that if Rawk wants to get stronger he would have to shadow Mario and learn what is the source of his power in the adventure.

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I also love TTYD, and I agree with many of these points, especially adding fast travel, the ability to skip cutscenes, addressing the sidequest system... Basically if they gave this game at least the same treatment as SMRPG I would be happy.

Although its not everyone's cup of tea, I love the backtracking side of things ngl. I love it when games are open world and tbh I don't want it to be linear like Sticker Star.

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I really want fast travel, especially when at the final area where you'll fight multiple bosses. Or at the very least add a shop at that area.

Since Super Mario RPG Remake had a quicksave feature, I'm pretty sure this remake will too, I hope

The Bub-Bulb hot dog trouble legitimately made me NOT want to play this game for quite a while.

The fact that it's a remake gives me hope for changes/new content, but I'm trying to keep my hopes low. Maybe the only changes are along the lines of the new Help Center sign, or that purple Toad in Glitzville (who I'm convinced is just there as a Hint Toad, saying something like "There used to be stairs here...", or "I wonder what this switch does. I think you can activate it with a Ground Pound. ('A' in mid-air)"). None the less, as TTYD is probably my favorite piece of any type of media, You bet I'm buying one copy to play, and one copy to keep sealed. Maybe a digital one too, we'll see

11:30 Nah, I love them. A bit of randomness is not a bad thing in battles but how about the ability to check stage props like the stage lights

15:04 Who is the artist for that image? I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned at all even in the description. Just a reminder to credit artists when possible. 😂

Vivian was never trans in the original Japanese; that's something added in the Italian localization. The Japanese, instead, implies that Vivian is an otokonoko, or a crossdresser. I understand that the trans community is in desperate need of good fictional representation, but we shouldn't be partaking in historical revisionism simply for the sake of that goal, especially when it comes at the cost of taking away representation from other minorities.

Only played it for the first time last year, and the backtracking was THE thing that stood out to me the most that I wished was better. Reeeaaaallly hope they have given us fast travel!

I have totally gone through an entire rpg and then found out that there were other party members I could have gotten.

Missable party members I would argue are a very good thing. A massive problem I have had with games as a whole is keeping engagement while also adding replay value. Let's take Xenoblade for example! I absolutely LOVE this game from the world design to the characters, story, and music! I ended up never finishing it though. This is because, for me, the gameplay loop got a bit too repetitive at a certain point. Developers handle this by adding diversity to the gameplay. This can include difficulty options, side content, minigames, and yes even missable content. Take Final fantasy 9, for example. The game has chocobo hot and cold as a minigame you can play to change your pace. Also in various instances, they will change up the gameplay for you. An example of this is when steiner is trapped in a cage and you have to swing with the dpad to crash it and escape, or when you have to impress queen brahn with the play acting by quick button presses. There is also the card game stuff. There is even a speedrun related challenge the game has where you can unlock Excalibur for steiner if you get to the final dungeon in less than 12 hours. There are plenty of other games that do this, but ff9 is just one example