Fixing Sticker Star | Paper Mario and the Sticker Comet 

I'm really sorry for the extra long wait on this one, as I had mentioned in other places and at the end of this video, a lot of various things came together to make this video a much more complicated project than expected, and it resulted in it being delayed multiple times. I hope the finished product was worth that wait, and now that it's done I can rest a bit easier. I know a lot of you have been looking forward to the Color Splash review, and I promise it's the next video, I'm already a fair way into writing the script for it, and plan on getting it done as soon as I can. My goal is for it to be done sometime in June, but even if that can't be made, it will not be a long wait. I'll try my best to not have as big a gap between major videos as this one again.

"environmentally-friendly poison gas" is the exact type of joke that would be perfectly at home in both paper mario and portal

Imagine if Goomoto dropped his sunglasses and you could equip them on anyone to look cool, or TRY to equip them on Kersti for additional dialogue.

these ideas felt so real to me that i wish the next paper mario game brings some of them into fruition also, fun fact: sticker star's original story was heavily implied to be about several kings becoming corrupted by an object, so the bosses you came up with almost line up with that part of the beta

One thing interesting is that in the original boss fight with the king goomba after defeating the final phase all his allies ditch him realizing that the crown’s power literally went to his head. Which indirectly supports your theme of selfishness in your rewrite.

Great pitch. Another name for the remake can be _"The Sticker Over Toadsmouth"_ and have the characters getting transfomed into stickers, which makes them seem like abominations to the normal paper folk.

I had a cool idea where in the ice world Kersti would wonder why its snowing in spring. And talking to the NPC's they would say its because the groundhog didn't show up. Which would lead you to fighting the Monty mole boss showed in the beta footage. And after the Monty mole would explain that he isn't why its snowing and that it's coming from the mountain leading into the Baron Blizovsky fight.

Idea: In Enigmansion, Boos would be like in Luigi's Mansion. What I mean is that they will have names that are puns on Boo, will be separate enemies, and depending on which is it, they will have different stats. In place of Stack Boo, there will be a discount Boolossus, though Big Boo will stay Big Boo since he wouldn't split like Boolossus. Another idea: after you beat all the chapters, you can find Luigi in areas of the chapters either thanking Mario for the help there and figuring out how he could avoid the situation like "maybe escaping the goombas when they were attacking would have been better idea than trying to fight them...", or finding a way to make the news seem like purposeful embarrassment like "There where too many goombas at once!" if you DON'T save him.

Now I kinda want to see how a Color Splash in the style of TTYD would work, I’ve seen both vids and love them to death, especially Kammy’s quest for eggs, and I think you could make a a game with amazing dialogue like Color splash with the poor execution in battle and over all story, and make it truly magical

I'd really love to see someone make a mod/fangame out of this. It's really good and looks like an actually good paper mario game.

42:55 what if Great Gonzalez Jr painted himself a messy collage of all his possible colors from thousand your door. Much like how some warriors paint themselves before battle.

I want to live in the universe where this game and Paper Mario & The Dark Prognosticus exist so, so badly. I applaud you and Horayn for the amount of time you spent coming up with these Frankly (heh) brilliant ideas. It honestly makes the ironically named Intelligent Systems look even more incompetent since you guys managed to come up with a better concept for Sticker Star than they did.

This is fricking genius, I WISH this is what we got in Sticker Star. But alas...

i like how Luigi realizes he can save the world by himself, but keeps getting into trouble because of something that is his mistake but it isn't something that would deny him being strong and great

I love how Goomoto wears sunglasses on his eye that covers the real eyes. Kinda reminds me of myself since I love wearing my glasses on my headwear, like masks or some special glasses.

imagine Shy Guys reaction to opening the Don't-ask being that one jumps down and says "What did we told you? We spied on you, just in case. People's curiosity can never ensure safety of private stuff!" Bowser being like "One shy guy against all of us?" And that shy guy just says "Not one" and all types of shy guys, including Anti Guys and even General Guy as cameo, fall on you and because you have no chance against this, you game over. or something like that.

Man, if Nintendo actually remade Sticker Star and made it similar to this, I would gladly buy it, I may not hate Sticker Star as much as most people do, but this new version would’ve been so much better than what we actually got, excellent job!!

This was really well done! I like how you further established the maddening powers of the royal stickers wishing abilities; making them the antithesis of the Star Sprits. I especially appreciate giving Kersti an character arc. As for the battle system, I feel you guys are borrowing a bit too much fro TTYD. Maybe it can be mix of that and PM64.

Very nice! If only this was the mindset of the actual devs. This is more like what a Paper Mario game is supposed to be. Only thing I'd personally add is bringing back more of the ideas from the prototype versions, like the King Monty Mole boss and the Mander species. I had my own concept for a "classic version" of Sticker Star called Royal Radiance, but it wasn't really developed much past "has E3 2010 art style, has classic PM elements, has scrapped characters from SS" because I don't have the patience to put together a whole fleshed out concept like this.

imagine this being turned into Fangame/mod, that would be pretty cool.

Amazing changes to 99.9% bad game. However, I think it would be cool if instead of Mario becoming shiny and powered up at the end of the game, Mario instead wears Kertsi like a Royal Sticker, except, of course, Mario becomes filled with Empathy and selflessness.

honesty the chapter 4 boss is honesty the best of the others, don't change it but tweak it little to fit the story

Fantastic video. One thing you didn't quite mention is if you'd keep the sticker rarity concept the base game has if at all, and I keep thinking about there's potential for it in this reimaigining, but I'm not fully sure how to go about it, but the idea is to give players the capacity to mod their stickers with certain options to further customize their loadouts. Since you're transforming the BP into the grid-like system, I have this idea that some stickers could be compressed to cost less SP to equip, or on the other hand, made bigger to have greater effects, or maybe, upgrade their polish and make them keep the same SP cost but have increased effects but may cost higher FP. Heck, you could keep a bit of the original Sticker Star's spirit by making stickers widespread and have to fuse them together to improve them. And then you need to get clever in how you order up your stickers so you don't just slap everything and forget about it. The bottomline is to expand upon the stickers as well, as it would further increase replay value. It may make the game a bit grindier compared to TTYD, but it expands into its idea of stackable badges. And this could be retrofitted into the Polish Shop to give it further use. Another wacky idea is to rework the system a bit more thoroughly and still taking a page out of the original (if only from a visual flavor standpoint). Instead of having an arbitrary amount of SP, you can make a system where Mario (and maybe his partners?) equip "pages" of stickers at a time. Want a loadout focused on going all in on your jump? Switch to a page full of Jumpman and whatever Stomp stickers. Want a generalist loadout? Switch to a page that combines Power and Defend Pluses with Flower Savers and Happy Hearts/Flowers to the side. Heck, this system and the previous one could even work together, as the player needs to decide either to upgrade the existing pages or go for new ones. There's a lot of potential with the stickers instead of just relegating them to consumables or just the replacement for badges tbh. Of course, this would require a lot of rebalancing and testing, but I think both ideas work nicely with the concept of a more open ended RPG adventure.

I should sort of share my idea I had with Color Splash... if you do read this comment, (The Red Guy) For the idea I had for color splash, I feel like taking the idea of Bowser's possession of the Black Paint and that the Black Paint itself was evil, and was actually an Evil Black Paint Star works far better than what we got. All boss fights would be similar but each koopaling would be still guarding their respective Big (I called them Grand Paint Stars) Paint Stars, but they are more or less possessed by the Big Paint Stars that have been corrupted by the Black Paint. Defeating each Koopaling would help them regain control of their bodies and they'd say a few lines of dialogue related to Bowser not being himself, with Roy saying that he tried to fight Bowser but was fully corrupted by the Black Paint as well. The final area would actually be inside the Paint Fountain where you'd fight the Grand Black Paint Star itself. Initially, I had also added a White Paint Star for Roy to hold, but Huey being a secret Big/Grand Paint Star would work well as a sacrifice. Mario, Huey, and the Koopalings would enter the Black Paint Portal to the Grand Black Paint Stars home world. You'd get multiple sections of which you'd fight Black Koopalings, which are identical to the other various Koopalings, only for The Big Paint Star of that color that the Koopaling Guarded to Power it up, and allow it to basically fight multiple fake copies of themselves as the others escape. Going in order of when you fight each Koopaling. You'd end up Battling Black Bowser just the same as before, but instead of Huey's sacrifice going the same way, The Other Koopalings would return with the respective Big Paint Stars and help you out for the second phase of the fight. This being the freeing Bowser phase. The Big Black Paint Star would have a design similar to the other Big Paint Stars only with red eyes. Once the Big Black Paint Star is defeated, it begins an escape section where Mario and the others have to escape. And they do just in time. The Black Paint Portal disappears and Bowser feels sad that he didn't get to do what he wanted to do and is sorry for all the trouble he caused. Mario pauses for a moment before Using his paint Hammer on Bowser's Shell and painting it rainbow Colors. The ending ends far more happy for Bowser, since he honestly didn't intend for what happened.

This is something that I wish Sticker Star was. You guys did an fantastic job on it. How about showing us what Color Splash could've been next.

Great video! I'll keep adding to this post as more things come up: 24:42 I love the little *thump* that sounds when you talk about the Aviators. Such a little detail but you sure are passionate about it.

Here's an idea for Emperor Piranhazuma. You enter the final level of World 5, and... Nothing. The Royal Sticker is right there. You go and grab it but then a Piranha Plant snatches it and the Sticker turns it into the Boss you'll have to defeat to get it back. Kersti can even comment about how this Royal Sticker is a freebee, but then gets annoyed when the Piranha Plant eats it whole before it powers up. That would be in line with most Nintendo games, where an item that ends the level gets stolen and then a surprise Boss Battle happens out of nowhere. It would be cool to see. Especially in a game like Sticker Star that desperately needed innovation.

i've always wanted to see what a Good Sticker Star would be like

the shadow queen and the final royal sticker would make a killer duo

An easy way of coding relevant Dialoge would be to use an if then else statement with a flag to indicate the character growth of Kersti. Ie “if kersti development happened, then say this, else, say that.

Unfortunately a certain Zelda release distracted me from this video's launch yesterday, that said I am very proud of the work that has gone into this and am beyond glad that it has finally released! Great to see it in a final form after all of this time, oh and happy mothers day I suppose lmao.

Might I ask how do you view origami king as a game? I think that would be interesting to see how you would change origami king because alot of it is arguably already good, the legion of stationary is just to good to replace imo, maybe some more original origami enemies and new character designs for some characters would be lovely,and better combat of course. So Id love to see how you would change a game like that,which unlike sticker star has a actual plot and y’know characters.Although origami king does actually use the genericness to its advantage with characters like bobby who while a normal bob-omb and king ollys motivation literally being toads are so similar it’s aggravating. Edit:This video also could probably be much shorter and condensed considering the changes would be more simple I just think it would be fun to hear what ideas you’d have for that game.

It sucks seeing this, I see it all now, like the first paper mario I played as a kid was sticker star and I thought it was incredible mostly.... even as a kid though I remember thinking sometimes "hmm.... this is really bad... or wow kersti sucks"

I like the sticker album idea making a puzzle out of the badge mechanic.

I don’t even hate sticker star but all of the ideas in this video are way better than what was actually in the game😂. I think it’s such a missed opportunity that this is the first paper Mario game Bowser Junior is in but he never even interacts with Bowser once (not that they would’ve had much of an interaction because Bowser doesn’t talk for some reason)

I think bringing back Kammy Koopa is a fun idea, but instead of being on holiday she's actually retired, resulting in Kamek taking over as Bowser's magical right-hand man. Her scolding of Kamek could be from her being his former teacher.

I'm in the same boat as you. A big peeve of mine is when people think the idea to a remake of a game is to undo or overcorrect elements, they deem worthy of gotten rid of. Rather than preserving the original's image, while tweaking the less fortunate aspects. The same applies to when developers do it too. I also agree that I don't think remakes should completely undo the original games, as the mindset people fall into is "this game sucks now" basically treating it as a pair of used socks. I'd rather keep the identity of the game, rather than overcorrect every aspect I hate for the sake of it. I also rather enjoyed the concept you guys came up with, love Horayn's ideas! I feel an underdiscussed topic in regard to this series is their take on various lands you visit. What I appreciate about TTYD, SPM and TOK's world designs are their deviations away from typical adventure game biomes like Snow land, desert land, spooky forest etc, while it's a strangely criticized aspect now (I don't understand, feels tact on) I think it adds to the world building of the games that passively added to the various aspects of the worlds. Not to say these aspects are bad, but I enjoy when games take chances to ramp up their world with takes on biomes (like Twilight Town being an answer to a generic spooky forest area with its nice use of gothic color palettes and NPCs that look like old, torn up puppets) or the jungle area adding more of a pirate theme, it transitions well past its introduction of typical grassy plains, and even then it just plays a part to building a more interesting world. And for all my problems with SPMS, I loved the geometric design for its worlds, giving them all a distinct feel. And TOK's giving off a sense of adventure. I like you guys take on the worlds of this game to give them more of a feel beyond generic adventure game biomes that are segmented pieces of areas. I love the idea of Goombella actually showing up in Sticker Star, since I think it would have been cool if later games, not bound to the stupid character restriction rule would bring back previous companions as minor or major NPCs in some way. Like traveling by sea, and while in trouble you are encountered by Cortez and Bobbery on a long voyage who just happen to be going where you're at. Your take on Kersti reminds me of Midna, where she starts out not caring about Link and using him as a means to an end but develops and appreciates him. Love the use of Kammy and how Bowser's appearance progresses.

HYPE!!!! You have no idea how many times I have replayed your sticker star review to fall asleep to lol. Instant click. Great vid and I ain't even watched it yet!

I'll be real here: I feel like the decision to make the battle system just TTYD again while relegating stickers to "Badges but with extra steps" is kind of...cheap? I don't know. Sticker Star was absolutely awful, but I don't think the idea of consumable-based combat has to be bad. That game just made it SO bad while making baffling decisions that now everyone thinks it's just inherently terrible. I think it would be an interesting idea to try and remake the battle system while keeping both consumable stickers AND partners/leveling intact.

Would Bowser openly be like "Hey, it's my quest" or would he hide his identity until he can't stand Mario taking the quest at first?

This is such a cool video, I love all of the ideas! I am one of the few who actually loved Sticker Star. It was one of my first 3DS games, although I do wish it got the treatment of the others. I absolutely loved the bright flashy scenes in every world (especially the winter one), but at times the game did feel a bit tedious and simple which could be discouraging- I hated the mini battles and no characters particularly stick out as a main friend or foe in the game. If it had been more like you proposed I think it would have been even more fun to play.

I love the idea that the Royal Stickers act as influences towards unsuspecting characters. This would make Bowser a perfect target, who desired power. It would also make the main Royal Sticker a greater scope villain like Majora's Mask. It would give everyone redemption arcs, who gave into their desires.

Dude this deserves more views. Actually so sick!

With that new concept for the royal stickers, I feel like one of the bosses would be a traitorous far-flung traveler from another dimension. Not sure why I'm feeling that way. 🤔

no joke, if a modding tool for sticker star ever comes. PLEASE let someone make this a reality!

Damnit now I really wish there was a nonlinear paper Mario game. (I know sticker Star was already like that but I want one that’s done better than sticker star) Experimenting with different routes that would unlock different partners at different times to unlock different parts of the game which could potentially give you different badges earlier or later depending on how you do things has so much potential. The only thing I would prefer is if the strength or power of enemies would scale with you as you progress because if you go out of your way to do chapter 5 first and make the game super hard at the beginning wouldn’t the enemies in chapter one be really easy? I also love the idea of sticking on badge stickers like the sticker sorting already in the game

I think Kersti should've been worn by Mario in the end which would weaken her by alot which makes it so she simply gos away

Stellar ideas! These already make this game a much more enjoyable time!

I love the idea of yoshi kid returning as an optional boss.

I am loving your versions of Paper Mario the Dark Prognostics and Sticker Comet!! The post game section is so good! It's such a shame these ideas will just be ideas

holy shit this is awesome! i was a dumb stupid idiot child so i thought sticker star was good and so i have a ton of undeserved nostalgia for it so this actually fixing it and making it good to make that deserved would be awesome :]

I like how kamek isn’t removed and replaced with Kammy, the most under appreciated mario character gets his redemption. Seriously please tell me I’m not the only kamek fan.

I’d personally give Sticker Star 2 more chapters, expand the ocean and a ghost themed area. Sticker Star is quite short compared to the other games, ignoring World 3.

I haven’t really watched any videos on sticker star so for the longest time I thought “Sticker Star” described Mario, calling him a “Sticker Master” or “Sticker Superstar,” and I didn’t actually know the Sticker Star was a thing in-game (well to some extent)

Only 1 thing I'd want for sticker star that would make it a million times better. Give it the standard jump and hammer attacks and have the stickers as special attacks. The rest of the game can stay the same. Just give me that and I'll be happy with it.

Expanding Birdo’s role is something I’m mixed about. I love the idea of having her be an optional party member and expanding her characterization, but I’m pretty torn on whether it would be a good fit for Sticker Star. The reason Birdo was so memorable in Sticker Star was because she just appeared, sang a romantic song, gave you a goat, refused to elaborate, and left; giving her a more heartfelt role in this game specifically would come at the cost of a genuinely good bit.

I feel like instead of another intermission, Luigi's scenes are considered their own mini mode similar to the new side stories in the M&L RPG remakes. After one is unlocked, the player can access them any time from the menu. Two intermissions feels like it could drag the pace between chapters.

So, Pokesses wanted to be revived which made the dead pokey body undead I guess, Mizzter Blizzard wanted to not die, and Piranha plant wanted to grow, but what is the selfish desire of Goomba and Gooper Blooper that Royal Sticker managed to use them?

If only Kammy were in Deltarune. Her Quantum Deviled eggs would be a hit

This was amazing red and i'm gald this video is finally done and the wait has Been worth it

Amazing as always! Thank you very much for your hard work again with this one. I appreciate how long these videos must take to make, and how they're made with a lot of skill and passion. You're very underrated and a skilled channel, and I applaud you on this. Well done :)

Alright I've been waiting for this for what feels like decades and Oh boy does it pay off excellently the concepts the partners the Royal Sticker concepts it's all really great Also an aside one I actually came up with Ideas for special moves for the Dark prognosticus in the reply column on my comment for that video look at it and tell me what you think. and finally this may not be implemented but In the unlikely but possible event you complete the pit before beating the game when Kersti looks at the murals all of her memories as the Queen will come back and if you fight the final phase of the Bowser fight following this she'll actually chastise the King who still has his memories and will actually talk back and is not keen on his "Soft" wife interfering with his plans for domination again at this point the bosses name becomes his real name King Adhesticus III and when Kersti sacrifices herself The King mocks her act of heroism in a very mean way saying something along the line of "Bah a fitting end she always doted on weaklings instead of me as any spouse should it's only fighting she would perish in service of inferior people like you plumber. Oh looking sad little red plebian, because you lost your wittle fwiend? WELL DON'T BE SADNESS IS AN EMOTION ONLY ANTS SHOULD FEEL you'll join her soon enough and with you gone the princess this castle This kingdom, THIS WORLD IT WILL BE MINE ALL MINE AND MINE ALONE TO RULE MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!" This angers Mario so much it actually gives him permanent +2 attack boost through out the fight granted he will still be tough but I think it would be somewhat quicker plus I think it would be a nifty addition to incentivize clearing the pit early on Repeat playthroughs.

Frankly, I'm floored! This would be such a fantastic game! Someone needs to get on this YESTERDAY!

See, little changes like this - huge, huge difference. Well done

I always liked the idea of being able to do the worlds out of order, with the consequence being that later worlds are slightly less intense, and leaving early worlds for later makes them get worse. As time passes (measured in chapters completed), maybe more and more undead get possessed in the desert the longer you wait. the goombas in grassland refurbish their fortress more and get closer to doing real damage to the peaceful town. conversely, going to the jungle early means the volcano isn't in as severe a state, or the snow world isn't quite so frozen over. It does bug me that this messes with Kersti's character development though, and its no simple thing to get it to happen anywhere but the poison forest. It'd be nice to have a little arc she could go through per chapter, to develop her in at least small ways, but I'm stumped on how that would work, plus it would be really complicated to implement

I love all these ideas amazing video as usual.

This video did do one thing for me. It reaffirmed how much I like Sticker Star. Not really much about the game I would want to change.

I loved watching this video, and the one for SPM right after. It gave me ideas for a similar video reworking another black sheep game in a different series, in fact!

Those ideas would make sticker star way better than what we got. I wish they would STICK with the ideas like those you came up with.

THIS is the game I wish I grew up with.

So happy to see new content from you!!!

I hope someone makes this into a mod someday

I wanted to say this for a while, but I love how Pokesses looks like he's Mummy Pokey from New Super Mario Bros. DS

this is very fun! you have a knack for the paper mario style and it's cool seeing such a maligned game getting built upon

Idea: Chet Rippo of this game would be a special Magikoopa, with unique design and all.

I’m excited to see what you think of Color splash! It’s probably one of my favourites! I’m also interested to see if you could do this kind of video for Color Splash, as I think you could bring a lot of ideas to the table. The only one I wouldn’t want is origami king because that game is already a work of art.

I won’t deny that Paper Mario and the Sticker Comet is probably something I’d play if it ever came out (assuming no C&D’s from Nintendo). However, I can’t help but think-and I know I’m not the only one here to think this-that Miyamoto might’ve had a point when he said the game feels a little too similar to Thousand Year Door. I can’t fairly judge since I’ve never played Thousand Year Door, but I can draw a few too many similarities to what I know about that game to say that Sticker Comet is fully original in its own way. There’s only so many times a series can do the same thing over and over again before it eventually gets a bit stale. And with this video and the video on Dark Prognosticus, if these two games were what we got… well, it’d definitely be better if we got these, but it’d probably be a little… repetitive, maybe? I don’t know, maybe there are less similarities than I saw in the video. I’m not saying the proposal if Sticker Comet is bad; ANYTHING is better than Sticker Star. And maybe this thought is coming from the fact that personally speaking, I actually enjoyed Super Paper Mario as a game; not as much as 64, I will admit, but I still found it fun. It felt kinda like a quick step off the main route. Something to shake things up a bit in the series before returning to what we know best. Like I said, I don’t hate the ideas on display here, and it’s clear to me you’ve put a lot of thought into this; as a writer myself, I can respect your desire (and success) to create a better story than Sticker Star’s.

I wish they add Luigi so he can help his brother as well.

It's probably too much for a project like this, but I think it'd be great to have Bowser jr get a black eye and a cracked shell from his conversation from Bowser. Thought it may be too much for a Nintendo game. But it'd also be a good catalyst for the two magickoopas to believe Mario and co

The dude made sticker star great.

Imagine if the NPC that gives you the Do The Pit quest is a guy who you meet several times and he always has the craziest theory on what Royal Stickers are and after you meet him in every location, he gives a quest to get to the bottom of the pit to gather some solid lore material for his next, Ultimate Royal Sticker Theory, and he would be sort of a tribute to MatPat. We will miss you, MatPat.

I never would've thought that there'd be enough materials in Sticker Star to actually make it into a good game if it got expanded on--though I can't say I'm surprised. It was a pretty bare-bones game, and that definitely shows. It felt much more like a mediocre fan-made game that people would've given a tad more praise had it been that instead only with everyone pointing out that it also felt unfinished (which I would actually myself say that it was) than an officially licensed Nintendo title, which it actually was and unbelievably so. I liked the ideas you guys came up with to fix it. Basically what it heavily lacked was story, characters, and gameplay elements, and you guys hit the nail on the head in all those departments--even bringing back some old ones that really needed to come back! I think that, with what you guys added in, this game would've been good and actually have been a game that deserves to exist and be played, unlike the lackluster garbage we did end up with. Personally, I probably would've wanted to see a complete overhaul, maybe with a handful of the good elements, but yeah, that would've defeated the purpose of what you guys were going for. If there's anything I would want to add, I think this game, especially with everything you guys added in, could benefit from having a couple additional chapters, to help make it extend to the length of its predecessors. As it stands I can see it getting away without those, especially considering that the original Paper Mario had two chapters that were filler chapters that either needed some work to make them more interesting or could've been removed all together and not change much about the game, just simply making it shorter (those being chapters four and six). But, then again, this game could've suffered from the same problem as that, having too much extra content (unless, of course, it's written really, really well to justify it being there). I also definitely would've redesigned the backgrounds, since I don't care about them in this game too much (looks a little too crafty for my taste; I like the original Paper Mario's design a lot better, or even TTYD's would've been okay). And, as I mentioned on my comment in the Sticker Star video, I would very much replace a handful of the tracks in this game, and improve some other ones. There is a handful in this game I thought was good, but I've never been a fan of this soundtrack. It is so overrated. I don't know why people think it's good, but it's not imo. I'm rambling at this point, though. After hearing your guys' changes, I'm discovering one problem this game's presenting that I never would've thought I would ever say about this or any video game period. You guys wanted to add to the story, which I think is great, and that is definitely something that this game really, really needed. But then you also wanted to bring the battle system back to TTYD. And I agree. TTYD's battle system was definitely the best. And I would do practically anything to put it into Sticker Star (or, in your guys' case, Sticker Comet). But after hearing the battle system coming back into The Dark Prognosticus, as well as this game, with virtually no changes, I'm ironically starting to see the problem that Miyamoto probably saw when he was playing the original draft of what became Sticker Star. It's starting to get a little repetitive. I mean, don't get me wrong--I'm not saying that games should completely change to keep things fresh (the direction that Paper Mario already underwent is a painful example of that). And I'm not saying you guys haven't offered any changes in this game, or The Dark Prognosticus, for that matter, to keep things from being too samey, either. But what I am getting to notice is that, if there's not enough of something to innovate the gameplay experience just enough to keep things from getting stale, it almost defeats the whole purpose of having a new game at all. Now, I mean, like I said, I don't think that's really a problem that's cropped up with you guys. You definitely did do something to bring some new changes to the gameplay from game to game. TTYD, while having a handful of flaws that give it some flack, was a shining example of what a Paper Mario game should be. You guys' version of Super, called The Dark Prognosticus, innovates by playing around with flipping in a more conceivable fashion, as well as letting Mario himself be switchable with other mains, which I thought was genius. And Sticker Comet does something that the other Paper Mario games do not, which is allowing for a more diverse chapter order that you can play through without glitches AND while being fun and innovative (at least, I think it's a good idea, but, if I may, probably could use a little more work to really sell the idea that that's how it's meant to be played so it doesn't feel like you're only invited to but should still play the normal way, like how Breath of the Wild does it, for instance. Maybe a cross between the two styles would be fun). And I'm not saying that the problem I observed necessarily showed in your ideas, either. But I am baffled that none of us actually noticed it before, either. I don't know if anyone here is reading this comment, but I hope you are, because what I'm about to write here, I believe, is something that every gamer, and probably every game developer, should know. A good game series doesn't repeat itself or completely overhaul just to be innovative. A good game series, or any series in general, recognizes its core elements and identity and sticks with them--but changes certain other aspects so that it feels like something new, while still being a part of the old. I think the problem Miyamoto noticed was this: the game draft that he played on, while we don't know much about, probably was too much like The Thousand-Year Door, because, while it wasn't necessarily a direct copy of the same game, it did share too many things in common with that game to where it didn't innovate enough. Miyamoto told those guys to innovate a little more, but he failed to recognize what elements needed fixing, and everybody started making a whole series that left most of its core elements behind, changed its identity (still the same one, but with a different persona), and became something it was not. I've seen other videos about other franchises that have undergone similar problems, some as bad as this but for different reasons, others worse or not quite as bad, but all with the same outcome. And now I've been playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and--spoiler alert, if you really want to experience it for yourself first--it, so far, has felt like a perfect experience going in from Breath of the Wild, being a game that recognized its core elements and identity, while still changing enough to feel like something different. It did it all perfectly. Ironically, I was disappointed at first with TTYD because it changed too many things from the original that I didn't want it to. But now, I have a much better appreciation for it--especially after what happened with Sticker Star. And all the things I've seen and experienced have finally made me discover all this and start to recognize it for the first time ever. This is all important to me, because, not only am I a gamer, I'm also an animator, and lately I've dabbled a little in video game design. And now, I'm starting to recognize elements that I want to incorporate in the things I create. Now, hopefully, I can do things in the right ways and for the right reasons, and, for those who take the time to read this, hopefully I've done the same thing for you, too! (Also, in case anyone's wondering, as much as I would love to recreate Super Paper Mario and Sticker Star into the games that The Red Guy suggested they become, that's never been the task I've set out to do. I don't mean to disappoint or anything; it's just, with what I've seen, anytime someone tries to create a rom-hack, a recreation, or even a completely original game with any of Nintendo's IP in it, let alone Mario, without their express permission, it never ends well. It either gets a cease and desist before it gets finished or gets taken down. So, personally, I don't think it's worth investing into. While I don't encourage anyone else to try this because of what could happen, I would also be supportive of them in their efforts to create these. I am definitely, however, willing to create games like Paper Mario, though, since that's one of my biggest inspirations.) So, yeah, another long comment, again like on the original Sticker Star video, but I hope I brought forward some good points and thoughts that I had in watching this video, as well as in general, regarding aspects surrounding this game. I could practically talk about this series forever!

not that game we wanted but the game we needed

This is better than the original Sticker Star

7:55 Char Cole..... HA I get it..... That's probably the best pun I've seen in this video yet.

Holy shit if someone actually successfully made this into a rom it would be amazing.

Thanks for not changing Mr. Blizzard's story much. Best part of this shitshow of a game i swear.

As someone who likes sticker star I will agree it is a bit bland at times. This video is a really good reinterpretation of how it could've been. Now do color splash

Paper Mario Sticker Star: Re-folded

Love it, i might actually make some of these partners into paper figures (not to use in videos if you dont want oviously)

Amusingly this idea is rather similar to an original TTYD-style concept I found on dA some time ago.

I would like it if the boss has two phases the first phase would be like against the regular empowered boss, but if you defeat him in the first phase. The crown will completely corrupt him, and the soul of the monarch will take a hold in the Crown to become a ghostly version of the original monarch and if you defeat the boss and collect the Royals sticker, you can click on it to learn the history of that monarch of how he died. And as two fun twists the Crown that possesses pokesses is actually his crown and instead of his soul it was his evil and the more he gets corrupted the more he got his evil back until when he transforms in his second phase he actually becomes alive again. And the second one could be that the golden crown could be from a ancestor from Bowser line. we can have a little joke with like the crown saying “Finally, I’m free from that stupid dope’s head! to think how far my line has gone from me the king of all evil to an absolute idiot who’s obsessed with making a princess marry him instead of taking over a kingdom! even when I was latched on to that dope his mind was an absolute nightmare! Treating his minions with kindness being nice to his son who failed countless times, and trying the same old tactic but revamped over and over again just to try and kidnap the princess instead of oh I don’t know killing the stupid plumber so he won’t be in the way! Not to mention, his mind was so fixated on that princess she was literally everywhere with fantasies of him and her together I had to try and warp all those fantasies just to corrupt his brain log enough so I can completely control him just get knocked off by that stupid plumber but this one thing that was not dope and that being his hatred. for. YOU! Allowed me to take control of my internal poison now when I’m done destroying you and his precious princess, I am going to obliterate that nut job out of existence so I may continue my rule!”(I’m assuming the Crown is the crown Bowser has. I’m on chapter 2 of the video.)

Ok I love almost everything I love the story,pacing of non linear, and the stickers badges,the battle system,and the bosses I will take this over the original anyday if they ever did a remake but a couple of things I will add two more chapters to make the traditional a magic carnival level and a sky level but if they ever make a remake they probably not include kersti because she annoying whiny and very useless even aqua was more useful then her at least she was funny and entertaining and well you know I take aqua anyday over her Ok so prologue almost basically the same as yours but instead of the hated kersti being there it’s everyone fan favorite everyone clamoring for him to be in smash,the coolest wooden doll we know and love geno he come back to help you to revive the sticker star because the disturbance in star road or star way he’s like kersti but more likable he really stress about the royal stickers if we are too late and he is serious and learn to have fun along the way and found the positive in with the bad An another one from super Mario rpg he cloud puff who is a prince he’s prince mallow Ch.1 same as yours also fun fact i was originally say ok king goomboss from paper Mario 64 or 64 ds but samurai goomba sounds cooler and more original and I like goon marshal only thing I would change make him golden(like in the leaks I think I read that there’s was suppose to be a golden goomba partner) Ch.2 love it the boss of super Mario ds reference and the conflict the only thing I would change make him a girl whatever the female version of coal is Ch.3 keep wiggler personality and the book and again make him a girl call Krystal and minimize the back tracking Ch.4 almost prefect expect the partner I believe an enemy turn friend so it is you know that leak of a king Monty from the beta would be funny after we defeat him suddenly friends like lakilester and Vivian it’s already a perfect chapter Ch.5 ok here my few changes sorry but I love Petey the pirhana plant i like monteunzema plant problem is we had it in ch.5 in paper Mario 64 second the partners twin chain chomps one is the boy and the one is a girl so you can name them whatever they want but their official names are chompy and chompette And the second is another one is a girl so you know on the beta leaks there was a lava snake thing well let’s name her Regina she is blue not cause of ice no,no,no it’s blue fire she mocks by other lava snakes call rexes their male counterparts for being weak but blue fire is strong Ch.6 it is magic amusent carnival park like in leaks where there is suppose to be cards now you can pick one optional partner there are two you can pick you can’t pick both you can have only one or another one here are two options one you can pick the best partner in origami king story wise bobby the bomb omb he’s green and depressed and done with life he’s great story wise but suck gameplay wise you had to really train him expect no sacrifice or you can pick birdo powerful in gameplay but not so much story wise and the villain is wit the magic hooded some creature his royal sticker is a magic hat and he’s random when you defeat him he became the normal hooded guy Ch.7: this is super Mario rpg cloud castle that mallow got kicked off and you can probably guess who are the two bosses are queen vatentina with pink bird royal sticker in her head she’s oppress the cloud people and dodo is back too Ch.8 same but with three levels and one is the airship and I love the kammy appearance ,second is factory that operate the kingdom with kamek but much harder then the final one bunch of mini games you can do then after done with that an empty hallway with bowser waiting for you i love every phase but add one with the giga bowser and a geno sacrifice the king is down geno still alive just in his star form and,geno pose in stars and sticker star fly high while the others enjoy the festival and say their goodbye as with tradition this point and a great parade

Someone find me a genie’s lamp. I’ll wish for this concept to replace Sticker Star.

A bunch of people are unloading their own concepts here, so I feel that it wouldn't hurt to include my own: (It's pretty long; expand at one's own risk) To make Goombarshal's Rank 1 Skill more thematic to his design, it instead has the player perform consecutive button presses to rile him up, gaining an aura with faint spikes on his head; and being respectively renamed "Sharp Mind". Chrysl falls into the web alongside Mario and gets fully encased by the Scuttlebug; where he breaks out after transforming into a Flutter. When Emperor Piranhazuma is defeated, Mario and Co. fall into its mouth right before the volcano erupts; shielding them from the lava. They escape from an uprooted and incapacitated Piranhazuma somewhere else in the jungle. The jungle wasn't affected too badly when the volcano erupted in Paper Mario 64, so why not here as well? Instead of turning into Egg Bombs during the Kammy trouble, Eggs previously in Mario's inventory turn into Century Eggs, which she remarks that Bowser hates very much. This prevents eggs from being compromised during the quest while still remaining invalid for completion. The punishment of opening the "Don't Ask" is Mario suffocating from the resulting contents' vapours. The Shy Guys/Snifits remark that they didn't want it opened, not because they'd get sued for the safety hazard; (you were indeed warned not to inspect it) but because the resulting paperwork to reject liability is a major hassle. Shogunate Goomoto still fuses with a bunch of other Goombas into one sheet of paper, but instead that paper is bent into the figure of a samurai.

Return of the King

Sounds good, but I just have one request, mainly for Kersti: Make her Irish. That’s it.

Sticker Star should have just been a puzzle game instead. Collect and craft stickers to fix up a broken world with different ways of doing it. Why have combat anyway if there is no incentive?

I will pay someone to make this a game

The rewrite changes a little too much about the bosses, and surprisingly that kind of causes them to lose some personality. They’re good in concept, but let down by the gameplay and plot. Here are my ideas: The Megasparkle Goomba (who needs a name) wishes that his gang wouldn’t be pushed around anymore. Although the Sticker gives him the power to combine with 15 members of his gang to become stronger than they would be alone, his wish is still self-serving: he becomes a cruel bully who ultimately pushes the rest of his gang away by the end of the fight. The Tower Power Pokey is the biggest boss in the game, so the desire to grow would fit it more; I’d also invert your scenario: instead of an eternal night, the desert would suffer an eternal day, as well as a terrible drought from the Pokey taking all the water in the desert for itself. Gooper Blooper is probably my favorite because of the music-based fight, so this is probably where my ideas diverge the most. Gooper Blooper would wish to have a never-ending dance party, with lights and music… and an insanely high energy bill. The Shy Guys aren’t just poisoning the land, they’re tearing it apart to meet a climbing demand for a rapidly dwindling resource. Defeating Gooper Blooper causes the demand for energy to crash overnight, almost instantly putting the old power plant out of business. Mizzter Blizzard’s fear of death causes him to desire immortality. Most of your scenario stays the same, but possibly with the end goal of freezing the entire world. Petey Piranha is a gluttonous, lazy plant. With the Royal Sticker’s power, he threatens to make the volcano erupt unless he is appeased with food… and his appetite only grows with each passing day. Bowser is loud and boastful, absolutely full of personality… so his corruption by the Royal Sticker should be characterized by stripping that away. When Mario comes face-to-face with him, he’s soft-spoken and focused, utterly consumed by his selfish desires. With the power of the Royal Sticker, all he cares about is dominating the world- not Peach, not his minions, not his son. Mario has to save him, too. I’m really not a fan of the Royal Stickers in this rewrite. They’re way too similar to the Master Crown from Kirby’s Return to Dream Land. Having them be just outright evil isn’t especially satisfying when the new theme could be better explored if they were just selfish- in fact, they should be EXACTLY like how Kersti starts, because Kersti should BE a Royal Sticker. The final Royal Sticker, the one worn by Bowser, could serve as a mirror to Kersti, emphasizing how she’s changed for the better; just as Mario influences Kersti to become better, Bowser influences his sticker to become worse.