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.
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.