Summary
ThePaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Doorremake restored a piece of dialogue that was missing from the original release.TheThousand-Year Doorremake has been a huge hit on the Nintendo Switch, becoming one of the most lauded games on the system and one of the highest-rated games of the year. A lot of the praise is given to the amount of fine-tuning and fixing that Intelligent Systems and Nintendo did for this game, including updating the gameplay and fixing some problems of the GameCube original. One thing that was fixed was a piece of dialogue that was missing in the game when using Goombella.
InPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, one of the partners that joins Mario at the start of his adventure is a college-aged student Goomba named Goombella. She provides Mario and the player additional statistics about an enemy in battle, thanks to her Tattle ability. Tattle can also be used to provide additional flavor text for any character or location the player visits. In the GameCube original, there was one spot where this ability didn’t work as intended, with the dialogue being dummied out for an unknown reason. The remake restores this piece of dialogue.
Inthe originalPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the area where Goombella’s Tattle didn’t work was during Chapter 4, in Creepy Steeple. In the original game, if the player uses Tattle in the room, the message would say how there’s no one around, except for the parrot. However, if the player asks Goombella to use Tattle on the parrot, she would simply repeat the dialogue about the room instead. Players knew of the unused message for the parrot itself because of fans snooping through the game’s data. The remake restores this dialogue, allowing players to hear Goombella’s thoughts on the parrot, as highlighted by GameXplain.
What Does Goombella Say About Doopliss’s parrot?
In the remake, whenGoombella uses her Tattle abilityon Doopliss’s parrot, she now says “That’s Doopliss’s parrot. Seems like he’s been abandoned down here… Poor little guy…” referencing the chapter’s events where Doopliss runs off after being defeated by Mario and his companions. Fans were appreciative at how the remake fixed this mistake after over twenty years.
There are a few otherscenes in theThousand-Year Doorremake that also have been changed, either by correcting some mistakes made in the original English localization, or bringing the scenes closer to the Japanese script. Some elements have also been replaced outright, such as the slot machines in the Pianta Parlor being traded out for arcade cabinets due to simulated gambling laws being much stricter in 2024 compared to 2004.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2024)
WHERE TO PLAY
Join Mario and friends on an epic paper adventure: A classic story unfolds on the Nintendo Switch system.Collect the Crystal Stars before the bad guys do: The X-Nauts are after the treasure behind the Thousand-Year Door! With a map from Princess Peach—and the help of a few locals—Mario must journey through a colorful world made of paper to find it first.Surprises abound in this deep and engaging tale, where everyone’s got something to say and it’s often not what you’d expect! Here are just a few of the colorful characters you’ll encounter along the way.Master your badges and timing-based attacks to impress the audience in a theatrical twist on turn-based RPG combat. Make use of all the abilities that come with being cursed—er, conveniently made of paper—like folding into a plane to cross big gaps or turning sideways to slip through narrow openings.
