Same. First Paper Mario I've played, actually. Loving everything else about it, but not really wild about the battle system, at least for non-boss encounters. Literally every other aspect of the game is great though. Art, writing, music, and the gameplay outside of the puzzle battles are wonderful. I'm on Purple Streamer rn and do feel like this part of the game's a bit weaker than past areas, but hopefully it doesn't trend to subsequent parts.
I'm just about done with the yellow streamer myself; been slow burning this game cause I don't know what to play next. But I do agree with your assessment, save for the battle system everything else has been very polished so far.
If you've never played any of the other ones then you should definitely look into the first two! The first one is one of my favorite games of all time, and while I just though the sequel was good many people think that it is even better than the first. So either way you can't go wrong. I do think that TOK has better writing though, but from what I remember there's a lot less dialogue in the first two, so they didn't have quite as many opportunities to throw in little jokes.
Cool, I'm definitely interested in looking at more of the series later (ginna be RPG'd out after this).
Worth disclaiming that my opinion of the battle system is probably made a bit worse because the last thing I'd been playing was Indivisible, which happens to be a game that does a much better job of breaking from traditional RPG battling.
Did they? I know that there was spme concern prerelease about the lack of experience points, but I've primarily heard positive things since it dropped.
Seems like its a neat new take even if its not the return to TTYD I'd like to see. I'm looking forward to playing it once I've cleared out some other stuff I've been working on.
It seemed to me like the Switch subreddit was split prior to release; half excited and half dooming it to failure.
It's a solid game though. I do miss the old turn based JRPG elements from 1 and 2, and I have a few other minor gripes, but overall as long as you approach it as its own game you'll have a good time.
Paper Mario: The Origami King
I'm liking it so far. It's a shame that so many people decided it was bad before it even hit the shelves. They're missing out!
Same. First Paper Mario I've played, actually. Loving everything else about it, but not really wild about the battle system, at least for non-boss encounters. Literally every other aspect of the game is great though. Art, writing, music, and the gameplay outside of the puzzle battles are wonderful. I'm on Purple Streamer rn and do feel like this part of the game's a bit weaker than past areas, but hopefully it doesn't trend to subsequent parts.
I'm just about done with the yellow streamer myself; been slow burning this game cause I don't know what to play next. But I do agree with your assessment, save for the battle system everything else has been very polished so far.
If you've never played any of the other ones then you should definitely look into the first two! The first one is one of my favorite games of all time, and while I just though the sequel was good many people think that it is even better than the first. So either way you can't go wrong. I do think that TOK has better writing though, but from what I remember there's a lot less dialogue in the first two, so they didn't have quite as many opportunities to throw in little jokes.
Cool, I'm definitely interested in looking at more of the series later (ginna be RPG'd out after this).
Worth disclaiming that my opinion of the battle system is probably made a bit worse because the last thing I'd been playing was Indivisible, which happens to be a game that does a much better job of breaking from traditional RPG battling.
Did they? I know that there was spme concern prerelease about the lack of experience points, but I've primarily heard positive things since it dropped.
Seems like its a neat new take even if its not the return to TTYD I'd like to see. I'm looking forward to playing it once I've cleared out some other stuff I've been working on.
It seemed to me like the Switch subreddit was split prior to release; half excited and half dooming it to failure.
It's a solid game though. I do miss the old turn based JRPG elements from 1 and 2, and I have a few other minor gripes, but overall as long as you approach it as its own game you'll have a good time.