Some of these play into the real world looking items that are in the paper world, others just have a neat hook. The game is divided into levels and each one has a gimmick of some sort. Sure, you might want to make judicious decisions when using them, using regular jumps to take out weak enemies like Koopa Troopers and saving the huge jump and five jump cards for bosses, but nothing sticks in the inventory for long. Cards are plentiful, meaning there is rarely any reason to horde them. Mario can carry up to 100 cards and use as many as four a turn. Mario still does have HP, but that is about it. There are almost no numbers to be seen, no levels or experience. The game has also been almost completely lost its RPG elements. Mario can only do what he has the cards to do. Here they are cards instead of stickers, but the concept is generally the same.

(No, I haven’t played the game in nearly a decade, but I am sure my memory of it is perfect.) There are no companions and Mario’s abilities are still represented by a randomly drawn deck. Super Paper Mario was perfect the first time out. Like Thousand Year Door took the original Paper Mario and perfected it, Color Splash perfects the enjoyable but flawed Sticker Star. That surely was a big disappointment for the people who hated Sticker Star, but Color Splash truly refines what that game did and feels like the culmination of this conception of Paper Mario. It turns out that Color Splash, like most of Nintendo’s WiiU output is an excellent game.Ĭolor Splash is built in the same mold as its predecessor, Sticker Star for DS. For some reason, I got the notion to finally give a play a few weeks ago. While I had been greatly anticipating the game, for some reason the game pretty much immediately fell on the back burner. Nearly three years ago, my brother’s got me Paper Mario Color Splash for Christmas.

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