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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Description

A thousand years ago there was a city. One day the city was buried. Another city was built on top, and all that remains of the previous city is a door. This is where the title "the thousand-year door" comes from. It's not known what could be behind this door, but everyone has different theories.

Princess Peach finds a map and mails the map and a letter stating that Mario must come. So Mario comes to place called Rogueport where Peach was last seen. There he meets a female goomba named Goombella. Mario shows the map to Goombella. Goombella then takes Mario to her archeology professor. The professor decides to take Mario to the thousand-year door. When Mario stands in front of the door, the map begins to show the locations of stars which open the door. The adventure begins from this point.

Mario can jump, run, hammer, talk to people, etc.. Mario finds many partners on his quest. Battles play out on a stage in front of an audience. In battle, Mario must keep his fans happy by executing action commands (hitting buttons at the right time during his attacks). Occasionally, in battle, the crowd will throw things at Mario. The player can attack the crowd at this time.

Alternate Titles

• "马里奥物语2" -- Chinese Title (Simplified)
• "ペーパーマリオRPG" -- Japanese spelling
• "Paper Mario RPG" -- Japanese Title
• "Paper Mario: La Puerta Milenaria" -- Spanish title
• "Paper Mario: La porte millénaire" -- French Title
• "Paper Mario: Il Portale Millenario" -- Italian title
• "Paper Mario: Die Legende vom Äonentor" -- German Title
• "Paper Mario 2" -- Informal Name

Part of the Following Groups

• Mario licensees
• Mario RPG series
• Paper Mario series

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Another Deep and Fun Game from Nintendo!

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The Press Says

GameSpot	Oct 11, 2004	9.2 out of 10	92
IGN	Oct 11, 2004	9.1 out of 10	91
N-Zone	Sep 22, 2004	89 out of 100	89
Jeuxvideo.com	Nov 08, 2004	17 out of 20	85
Gaming Age	Oct 29, 2004	B+	83
Electric Playground	2004	8 out of 10	80
EL33TONLINE	Sep 22, 2006		80
GameSpy	Oct 07, 2004	4 out of 5	80
GotNext	Jan 10, 2005		70
Game Informer Magazine	Nov, 2004	6 out of 10	60

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Trivia

In the scene where Peach takes a data disk from Grodus' room and puts it in his computer, the image shown on the computer screen is the start-up theme for the Famicom Disk System, an add-on for the Famicom (a.k.a. Nintendo Entertainment System) released only in Japan. The Disk System used floppy-like disks instead of cartridges and helped to pioneer the concept of saving game progress. Some of Nintendo's most famous games, such as Metroid and The Legend of Zelda, were first released on this add-on system.