Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Is GLORIOUS YOU GUYS | First Impressions 

I believe Yahtzees old praise holds true: changing the formula from grassland, forest, fire world, ice world to grassland, forest, WWE, Agatha Cristy novel was the right decision.

Damn I thought he would hate it

The partner wheel really saves time if youre trying to get to a partner for a puzzle, swap to another for combat, then back to another puzzle. Feels much smoother than opening and closing the menu constantly

Something I really appreciated was that you can bonk every NPC in the game on the head with the hammer which I don’t remember being in the original game. That, and the fact that you have multiple directions you can swing your hammer now instead of just 2 is not to be slept on.

One thing I never noticed until now, is that, since they've added back sprites, I've noticed Ms. Mowz Naruto runs with her arms behind her back.

i was really taken off guard with the amount of love and care that went into this game. from the lighting, the animations, the soundtrack, the quality of life. i dont believe ive played a remake of a game in recent years that felt so damn perfect.

I have a copy of this to my sister as an early birthday gift and she was overjoyed, giving me multiple hugs and saying I’m the greatest brother ever! This game really is a definitive part of our childhoods.

IMO the best thing about the remake is not the HD, it's the added poses for all the characters. They're so expressive now.

Goombella's celebratory jumping when something good happens is just the most adorable thing

The game encompasses the very spirit of Arlo. Arlo's very first video that put this channel on the RU-vid map was about Paper Mario, and now we are literally listening to Arlo gushing over TTYD on a modern gaming engine! We are living in a brand new era, and we'll be following you every step of the way, Arlo!!!🥳🎉

I have to remember to look at the characters to see them emote instead of focusing on reading the text. This wasn’t an issue on the GCN, since no one ever emoted besides Mario, but it is a problem I welcome to have!

I want to make a note that wasn't mentioned here and that's a subtle but wonderful difference I noticed. I entered Hooktail Castle and entered my first battle only to realise the combat music had changed. It's still the same at its core, but it had changed pitch and key as if it were an entirely new track. I was in awe. I'm so hyped for the rest of the game!

“Is this remake the pinnacle of Mario’s roleplaying experiences? Or is it a Thousand Year Snore? Letstalkaboutit WOOOSH!”

I'm just hoping Nintendo acknowledges Toadsworth more... I miss the ol' chap.

There’s also a 1 coin badge in the badge shop to play the original background music, so good 😊

Arlo's been waiting so long for this, many of us have. One could say we partially have him to thank for this. And I'm so happy the wait was worth it. And I'm glad I can finally play it.

I'm loving it too, but there is one nitpick I have that I'm surprised you didn't mention, and it's that unlike the original, you can't skip through dialog that you haven't seen before in each save file. This means whenever you're forced into a tutorial for something you're fully familiar with, you can't just mash B and get to the end, you have to deal with the entire conversation. It's not game breaking, but it is mildly annoying.

I used to play Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door a ton throughout the years, even recently, so I can confirm a few things with the items and badges in the original; 1. Enemies actually hold items fairly commonly in the original. Sometimes you won't see it much, but other times it actually happens quite a bit in the original too. 2. The stuff with enemies getting the effects of badges and holding them in battle was in the original too. Badges were a lot rarer to see them hold, especially with certain badges, but I probably see a dozen or so different enemies in every playthrough I do that end up holding some kind of badge, even when just regularly playing the game. Sadly I can't afford to get the remake yet, but it really does look absolutely amazing! I still can't believe we finally have a remake of Thousand Year Door after all of these years, and I can't believe its just as amazing as ever, possibly even better! Thanks for taking a bit of your time to read this, I hope everyone here has a great day!

I’m only a few chapters in and boy was it worth the wait. I truly see why this game is so beloved. The dialogue is so witty, tons of charm, fun as hell battle system. Everything has been a complete joy so far.

This game makes me feel so strange because... It's new but I've played it and I feel like I know the ins and outs of it already even though I played the original more than 15 years ago. I was immediately doing flips with the hammers and super guards on the first enemies like I was picking up riding a bike again. I really like this game a lot but I really hope this leads to a sequel in its style that is truly new because this is great and I want more.

I really appreciate the new character animations, unique voice chatter for each character and the different musical motifs depending on the areas you’re in.

I can’t wait to play this game. I grew up playing the original but never got too far into it on account of me being a dumb child. Now I that I’m older I can finally finish it

As someone that’s on Chapter 7 and has played through the original numerous times: -Some of the QoL added has been very nice, even if not all are ultra useful to me in particular -30 fps IS noticeable and has specifically increased guard/super guard timings -Not being able to mash through text and the text speed being generally slow has made a lot of the intermission/lore sections feel VERY sluggish. No joke you will be pressing a or b for over 5 minutes simply because each text box has to fully complete before the next can slowly start up. It’s going to add like an hour to the glitchless speedruns -The 15 item inventory QoL loses a lot of value when you realize the strange sack on floor 50 of the pit now only gives 5 more inventory slots to match the total 20 you’d have after getting it in the original. Kinda lowers the excitement when you only increase your inventory by 33% instead of 100% -As a long time player it’s a bit sad that every star piece/shine Sprite/item /badge is in the exact same spot. There’s not really any new discovery aspect for us other than some minor things -Some very fun/neat animations, my personal new favorite being when using Flurrie’s gale on the Punis midfight with the Jabbis. Def use her in there to see what I mean -The First Attack badge being swapped from a 1bp to a 0bp cost, essentially turning it from a choice to use it to a QoL, is very welcome -Yoshi having an acceleration buildup at the start when riding him…why? -Goombella now having a button to press to have her tip you off to what you’re supposed to be doing next in the story is very cool for newer players. I can definitely see that being helpful in some of the more convoluted sections like the train cabins Probably more but can’t think off the top of my head. All in all glad to play it and I’m enjoying it but there are definitely some things (mostly the text speed) I’d like to see get patched to help turn this into the remaster we deserve

Once again, you've summed up what I was trying to tell someone. I've never really played a remake that was so similar to the original game, yet felt new???? It's fantastic.

Even this glowing review doesn't highlight just how incredible this game is. One crazy thing about it is that the weirdness isn't there for ghe express purpose of being weird it's genuine world-building and foreshadowing. That symbol graffitied everywhere probably leads to an optional boss, there's a secret related to "x" organization, one of the people you encountered is now in your quest way down the line everything about this game is a masterpiece

I have been going around hammering every unique character to see the animation they do and I love it. it reminds me of spraying every Pianta I saw in Sunshine the first time I played it. So far I am absolutely just as enamored with the remaster as I was with the original all those years ago.

"The lower framerate is noticeable, and the text moves slower" are so far the only criticisms I can give about the remake. I still have my copy of the original, but I'm having a hard time justifying playing that version again instead of the new one.

Fun fact! Marza Animation Planet (the team that does the CGI cutscenes for Sonic games) handled the lighting in the TTYD remake! (They also did the lighting for TOK, but imo TTYD's lighting is even better!)

I'm super happy that they restored a major part of Vivian's backstory which had been censored in the original US release.

My wife looooved Origami King. It was her first and only paper Mario game. I’ve talked to her before about how paper Mario used to be better and such but she liked TOK a lot so she disregarded my comments. I showed her this remake but never told her it was a remake. She started playing today still thinking it’s a new game (Nintendo’s marketing ploy worked) and it is fascinating to watch her play it through that lense. If she knew it was an old game remade she might have an aversion to it due to me bad mouthing one of her fav games ever 😅 So im going to watch her play through the entire thing without knowing.

The only complaint I have is that the text goes too slow, in the original you could press ‘B’ to speed it up/make it all appear and advance it, they took that feature out for some reason and it makes the game feel so much slower, probably not a problem you’d notice when streaming it, but playing on your own it’s fairly annoying. I was honestly looking forward to what speedrunners would do with the remake but something like this will make it significantly slower than just running the original even after they get a chance to see what glitches still work and if there are new ones to exploit.

These are nitpicks but has anyone noticed certain sound effects are missing like slots in battle and audience cries

Been watching a relative play the game, and there are some UX problems that weren't in the original: - Can't insta-skip dialogue by pressing B! - Before an enemy is starting it's attack, it waits for the star power meter to finish animating! These add extra waiting time and doesn't feel good. That said, everything else is pretty great. You can even skip cooking. Shame about the 60FPS, Hope they can optimize it, maybe for support on a next-gen console.

there was one moment when the crows in the spooky town were talking about "oh no we're going to run out of fossil fuels" and i had... completely forgotten that "peak oil" was something we cared deeply about in 2004. the issue wasn't "we need to stop burning oil at all costs", it was "what can we burn if there's no more oil?" thanks paper mario for that trip to a more innocent time

I would love if they made a Paper Luigi to detail all of the things that Luigi was up to & telling you stories about during the course of this game. You can tell the splatoon/animal crossing team handled this remake based on the music and the environmental details

It’s very much living up to the hype. Just..the amount of weird jokes they make and the strange tonal shifts…it’s amazing. Definitely gonna be one of my favorite games..

You should def check out Glitz pit. Each cast has a neat expression for every fight, very neat to view through in the ranking ladder!

Arlo is the spiritual embodiment of precisely how I feel about the game. It was my childhood and I'm loving every detail of revisiting the remade and remastered version; they've filled it with even more love and care than the first version. ITS SO GOOD AAAH

My Gamestop Preorder with the Gamecube Cover sleeve came in today! So excited to play this adventure again!

Watching your live of TTYD, Arlo playing the game that I’ve loved so so much since I was young and with your love and appreciation of the game as well was just the absolute highlight of my month. It really made me happy and let me feel giddy excitement over something so small. The last few months have been really tough and that live was the place and catalyst for me to feel really happy and grateful and be in a much better place. So thank you.

Dammit! Fine! I'll head out tomorrow and buy it.

Each character making their own little noises when they speak is easily my favorite new addition, it’s so charming

I'm still very, VERY surprised they committed to Vivian's story. Figured they'd just rewrite that part entirely but nah, they committed to the bit.

Something I've really come to appreciate is something similar they did in the RPG remake, variant/dynamic themes in battles. When you're thinking in battle, the music changes in TTYD. And I didn't notice it at first until I got to Cortex and was like 'Wait.. WAIT THE MUSIC CHANGED!?' I.. I love this so much.

The changed writing are .Add tutorial moments . Goomba catcalling in sewers replaced hero insulting . Hooktails weakness back to frog . Vivian's storyline was sugarcoated in both past versions, now it is bluntly stated. That is all i know so far

Paper Mario and Paper Mario TTYD were my first ever JRPGs before I knew what those were and it also lowkey made me think I love Mario more than I actually did. These games make the world of Mario feel so alive compared to others

As someone who has never played a paper Mario before I’m having the best time with ttyd. I’m not sure what I enjoy the most but the story and characters are so charming and well written thanks for selling me on this Arlo :)

As a newer Paper Mario fan, I love this game. Origami King was my first Paper Mario game, and I wasn’t a big fan of the game outside of the boss battles. I’ve since played a bit of Paper Mario 64 and I absolutely love what I played. I know how special this game is to so many people, and I can see why. This game is incredible!

I love how whenever a battle starts, the stage has some paper props in the background that pop up. It's a small detail, but it makes me love the remake even more for embracing It's Pop-Up Book ascetic.

Honestly I don’t know if it’s just my bad eyes but everything but the characters look so good I think they could have been real life sets which they have then just added computer made characters onto. I actually think this is the best looking switch game in terms of what it’s going for that I have played, loving it!

Arlo, are you kidding? The partner wheel is probably my favorite QoL addition so far! Especially because I often change to Goombella for tattling. It's very convenient and saves quite a bit of time in the long run, plus it's less tedious

Half the frame rate half the fun! Just kidding, already got my copy but gonna finish Unicorn Overlord before diving in. Only so much mind space for these games at a time.

This game is so fun you guys! I have a feeling I'm going to beat it over the weekend that's how much I am loving it. However, if I did have to throw ONE, just one bit of criticism towards the remake though. The nostalgic tunes badge feels like false advertising. It switches some of the new tracks back to the gamecube ones...but not ALL of them. Without going into spoilers of course, there's an intense moment towards the end of chapter 2 where you are forced to listen to the new track, no matter if you have the nostalgic tunes badge on and that new track, to me anyway, is inferior to the original. When it comes to new character themes, that's totally different and I welcome that change! But things like not being able to listen to the old partner tutorial track, for example, does bug me as again. I liked that track better then the new one and as far as I know, there is no way to change it back. Is anyone else annoyed by this or am I being a grouchy old man?

honestly- I'm mainly happy that viv is now canoically trans like she should be

The best part about remaking it is simply because it is making it more accessible. I never got to play the original one, but now that it’s in the switch I’ve been having the time of my life playing it and I’m sure there’s other people who experienced the same

Something I didn’t see Arlo mention is that the function to scroll dialogue is missing. There are funny bits that I accidentally missed in chapter 1. I largely agree and *adore* the life changes they included, and won’t spoil a specific element that improves enemy encounters, but man oh man do I miss the scrolling feature. Guess I took that one thing for granted 😅

Genuinely one of the greatest remakes to have ever been re-made. Every single NPC having brand new sprites and animations is absolutely incredible

Keep the streams comin arlo, loving them!

The best thing they ever did was having the old soundtrack as a badge.

Your hangup with the partner wheel is so bizarre, dog. It absolutely saves time and is super useful.

I just want to say thank you Arlo. I’ve heard you praise this game for years and I gave it a shot on day one. I absolutely love it. Never would’ve given it a try without you. Thank you so much!

If this sells well enough: It’ll really challenge the notions purported by Miyamoto in the past that “stories in Nintendo games don’t matter”. That’s more or less how we got the second Paper Mario trilogy in the first place.

The button mapping thing is a little annoying. Can't count the amount of times I've tried to "strike first" on an enemy with the hammer, only to fail cause my mind keeps expecting it to be the Y button. The inability to skip cut-scenes or a speed-up option for the dialog is also weirdly absent. I feel like those are standard features for games this day and age.

I wish the audience still made noises. Battles feel kind of empty without the cheering and screaming

Also Goombella is frickin awesome. We need partners again!!!

I gotta say that I really do love how much The Origami King just bleeds right into this remake of TTYD! From the suped up ost of the classic tracks to the brand new tracks made just for this remake and even some charming bits like how Bowser's theme from Origami King kinda peaks into Bowser's theme in this game. The wonderful artstyle, how positively pleasant the game look from the beautiful artistic value of the paper-crafted artsyle or how expressive the characters can be. The sound design, like the sound effects sound like TOK's take on TTYD's sfx. Overall this new era of modern Paper Mario on the Switch is just a beautifully bright future!!

I left off playing right before the Hooktail fight, and my favorite feature so far is the additional sprites to make the characters more expressive. My second favorite new feature is the Star Piece and Shine Sprite completion percentage for each area listed on the Map. I can't wait to check out Boggly Woods, because that was always my favorite area aesthetically in the original.

Can I just say I'm kind of surprised how quiet Nintendo has been about this game? Not in terms of marketing...I've seen several trailers and bits here and there. I mean more in the sense that...the last few games before release we've had interviews with Intelligent Systems talking about making the game and how things got to where they are now. I think this is the first Paper Mario game since Super where we know very little about the production of the game. Like I'm so excited to finally have this, but why now? What changed? I've heard alot of the Origami King team worked on this, but they've been so very quiet about this and I'm curious as to why.

Remaking that ending almost made me cry like how I did in the original version

One thing that I found out in my playthrough is that the Strange Sack (the reward on Floor 50 of the Pit of 100 Trials) increases the amount of items you can hold from 15 to 20. Which is a bit odd to me since it was originally 10 to 20 on the GameCube, so I thought, with the increase in the base item limit, they would double the amount as they did (So 30 items). Guess I was wrong, but hey more item slots are more item slots.

I had goosebumps when I started the game up! I played this game soo many times as a kid and havent for a decade. It felt like bumping into your childhood best friend as an adult!❤

I already know it’s glorious, not only because I’ve already played the GameCube version, but because you would never shut up about it. Seriously I’ve been watching since I started high school, and I’m on college now you’ve made perfectly clear how much you love this game (still no Big Fat Review).

I only just started this game and it’s so fun! You can really tell how much love was put into it

It's been a blast so fast playing alongside Arlo!

6:22 Very confused by his opinion here. It’s not a game changing update or anything, but it’s nice to have to swap quickly between partners, what’s not to like?

I have waited over 5 years to play this game. And now that I have it... I THINK THIS IS MY NEW FAVORITE GAME OF ALL TIME.

I love Mario’s new Charlie Brown expression where he’s looking straight up 😂

i wasnt breathing when the game first came out so being able to play this mythical game of legend passed down from generation to generation is neat

It’s awesome to see all of the characters again in this remake! Just got my copy at last and I’m in chapter 1 and I’m loving it! So far

There is one thing I don't think I'll be able to tolerate in further repeat playthroughs and that's the fact you can't press a mid dialogue to make all the text pop up so I can just skip through the text. like it's kinda nice to be given a pace to read at, but when I'm just going for gameplay in my next playthrough, the slow text is gonna be obnoxious. It feels like something they could patch, but I also don't think this is a game they'll patch at all. The time savers this game gives feel like they get immediately removed by the forced dialogue scroll and I really don't understand why they took away the ability to skip through, it makes an extremely replayable game so much less replayable. I'm not sure if I'm just remembering it wrong, but the time between actions feels longer too, like it's waiting for all the Star Points to fly into the bar when it didn't before, but it's definitely not as noticeable as the dialogue if it even is different. For context, I love (or feel neutral) almost if not all other changes the remake made. But it makes the quality of life feel like it's just giving you the time you lost from all these other things taking slightly longer constantly and I'll probably just end up going back to gamecube for future playthroughs unless people make mods for the game that "fix it" which I really don't think I should have to do

Two things I’ve noticed: First, you don’t interact with bushes with an A press anymore, you whack it with your hammer. I went all the way back to town to get a POW block for the second Schwonks fortress fight and the whole way I was like “I FEEL like there was a POW block somewhere on this path, but WHERE??” It was almost certainly in a bush and I didn’t think to whack it. I only realized you whack bushes late in chapter 2… Second, it’s nice that you don’t have to chase after everything you pop out of a bush or item block. Used to be as soon as an item fell on the ground you’d have to run after the little bastard, but now it falls neatly and predictably in front of where you free it from. Very nice touch!!

I cant wait for the 4 hour review in 6 months

loving the game so far! this is my first time. and honestly while the 30fps is noticeable, i adjusted to it very quickly. but i do also hope for a next-gen patch that gives us higher resolutions!

In terms of the writing: some of the more adult jokes seem to be omitted and I think it’s to keep it E rather than E10. One nice change though was they are referencing Hooktail with “she” rather than “he” like they did in the og. I remember as a kid it threw me off when later on in the game they refer to Hooktail as a sister dragon when up to that point Hooktail was “he”. Which I think was just a translation issue at the time.

Thank you, Arlo ❤you’re a big reason this is here, and I’ve spent the last two days feeling like a kid again. Thank you.

The OST is utterly amazing

1:04 Actually, in the code of the game, people have found evidence of 4K support in the works. This is the first switch game to have this, so it leans heavily towards the idea of the Switch 2 having 4K support.

Can confirm the badges and their effects on enemies in the original. And the treatment of a certain character compared to the original localization has been handled very well. I was very happy with the results when i started seeing stuff with them. Im so glad Nintendo didnt shy away from it this time around.

Enemies getting the effect of the badges they're holding has definitely been a thing in the original. I mostly noticed it in the pit of trials back then. But yeah, I've also had an enemy with an HP Plus badge in the main story.

The little rewrites around Vivian are so sweet. I really didn’t expect them to address her being trans in-game, but so far from what I’ve played, it’s done in such a delightful way

Exhibition matches in the Glitz Pit is the greatest addition that I didn’t even know I wanted.

My only real complaint about the game is that it feels laggy when in the combat menu, like if I click on attack it doesn’t immediately go into choose a target

This game is stylized really well. The original resolution on the GameCube still holds up. 30 fps for a turn based rpg is fine IMO.

All these years, hearing Thousand-Year Door music in your videos, and you finally get to play it in a video _about_ Thousand-Year Door!

7:18 I agree with this, and it managed to catch me off guard once in Chapter 2. I had an X-Naut show up in a battle holding an hp plus badge, and just before I could see that, I first saw and freaked out for a moment about it having 9 health at the start of the fight. Of course, it was a simple fight and the badge hardly changed a thing, but I never knew that was a badge enemies could hold. It a was a fun new experience that surprised me.

Arlo's love is absolutely gushing!!

Having beat Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Remake today, I can safely say that this was a fantastic remake, love that they updated the Underground Warps which makes the infamous Chapter 7 segment far more manageable, the new character animations as well as the new story bits that they added makes this game feel more flash out, and I love that they change some of the bosses strategies, as well as added in two new optional bosses and all-in-all, this was worth the wait.

Omg the 30fps just kills it. Total rip! 🤣 Seriously this looks so good, I cant wait to pick this up myself. 🎉

I still get the perfect timings just fine. The 60 fps to 30 fps change didn't affect my timing like I thought it might. It has been many years since I played the original though, so I don't have immediate whiplash from the potential timing.

I'm really happy with the new script. Adds some new jokes that are really good, fixes mistakes from the original release, and shows Vivian's character the respect it deserves by not censoring it this time.