Overview
- Number of Players
- 1 (Single Player)
- Genre
- Release Date
Wii U
7th Oct 2016
7th Oct 2016
- Series
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- Official Site
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Reviews
Review Paper Mario: Color Splash (Wii U)
Colour us impressed
For any long-running series, innovation is key to keeping fans coming back for more without getting too bored. Gameplay tweaks and changes to the setting can work wonders in refreshing a stale format, but some might argue that if an idea ain't broke, then don't keep trying to fix it. The Paper Mario series has been no stranger to...
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Paper Mario: Color Splash Guides
Guide Best Paper Mario Games Of All Time
All the Paper Mario games, ranked by you
Updated with Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for Switch, the HD remake of the 2004 GameCube original. Enjoy! The Paper Mario series began two decades ago when Paper Mario for the Nintendo 64 launched in Japan on 11th August 2000. Since then, we've seen five more mainline Paper Mario games of different...
Paper Mario: Color Splash News
Poll What's The Best RPG Starring Mario?
Paper, Partners, and everything in between
Mario, the world's favourite platforming plumber, has done everything — kart racing, tennis, golf, partying, and a little bit of turn-based RPG-ing. 1996 saw Mario's RPG debut in the Super NES favourite, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, and since then, he's starred in 14 different RPGs (plus...
Poll What's The Best Paper Mario Game?
Papers please
With the recent release of Paper Mario: The Origami King, the Paper Mario series now stands at a sizeable six entries. It all began with the original Paper Mario on Nintendo 64, before moving onto the GameCube with the celebrated Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. That was followed by Super Paper Mario on Wii before the series took...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (July 18th)
Here are our picks, but what are yours?
With yet another week down - this time bringing with it a new Switch update, the LEGO NES console and an official Animal Crossing Instagram account, no less - it's finally time to sit back and chat about our weekend gaming plans. Members of Tea
News Mario, Metroid And Star Fox Feature In The Latest European My Nintendo Rewards
And those Octopath Traveler case covers
The latest batch of My Nintendo rewards has now gone live in Europe, with a collection of Wii U and 3DS games being offered at a discounted price alongside those lovely Octopath Traveler Switch case covers that were released in the US recently. Here's the full list of games that have been added to the...
News Mario Party: Star Rush Struggles to Get Into the Mood in Japan
Nintendo hopes most buyers are just fashionably late
It's Wednesday, which means we can start eyeing the weekend, and also that the Japanese chart results are available. Considering the results, some at Nintendo may be doing the former and getting in some strong drinks. The big release last week, from Nintendo's perspective, was Mario Party: Star...
News Paper Mario: Color Splash Makes Modest Japanese Chart Debut
Monster Hunter Stories is still number one
It's that time of the week for the Media Create charts out of Japan, and there are a few major releases to consider; it's a mix of good and bad news for Nintendo. To start with the good news, Capcom's Monster Hunter Stories on 3DS is number one for the second successive week; though it's tracking a long...
News Paper Mario: Color Splash Sales Flatten Out Amid a Wave of New Releases
Wii U entry of Skylanders: Imaginators does 'ok'
The UK chart results are out, and they represent one of the busier weeks in the country in a number of months. Though FIFA 17 is comfortably number one ahead of Gears of War 4, there are a whole load of PlayStation VR titles arriving in the top 20 alongside the hardware. So, what about Nintendo...
Random Paper Mario: Color Splash Has an Iffy Issue in its Battle System
Time for a patch
We rather liked Paper Mario: Color Splash in our review, and now plenty of Wii U owners around the world have been trying it out for themselves. Naturally different play styles put its mechanics to the test, and an odd developer oversight (which should have really been found in QA testing) has emerged. As posted by 'Fatguy703' on...
News Paper Mario: Color Splash Makes Top 20 UK Debut as Mario Party: Star Rush Misses Out
Party pooped
Nintendo had two major retail releases last week - Paper Mario: Color Splash on Wii U and Mario Party: Star Rush on 3DS; one achieved a respectable albeit unremarkable result in the UK charts, and the other fell flat. Paper Mario: Color Splash, despite spelling colour wrong for the UK market, managed to secure 14th place in its debut...
Nintendo Download 6th October (North America)
Paper Mario: Color Splash! Mega Man X2! Mario vs. DK 2! More!
It's that time of the week, once again, when we take a look at the new downloadable goodies to be found on the Wii U and 3DS eShop in North America. This time around there's a major retail release on Wii U, while both eShop stores have a variety of interesting new arrivals. The Wii U and...
Previews
Preview Buckets Of Fun With Paper Mario: Color Splash
Colour us impressed
Paper Mario: Color Splash is one of the Wii U's last major releases of the year, and by all accounts it should be cause for some real excitement among fans. It's the latest entry in a series that's filled with humour, character, charm and amazing environments, with an interesting new paint mechanic to keep things fresh. Our time...
Hands On Painting a Clearer Picture of Paper Mario: Color Splash
"This is more of an adventure game"
There was an elephant in the room inside of Nintendo's off-site Comic-Con Nintendo Play Lounge. Not to be confused with a small stage shaped like an oversized Nintendo 3DS console, or the mammoth, room-sized inflatable Kirby set up to greet guests, this elephant took the shape of a video game kiosk. The game was...
About The Game
A colorful mystery is afoot on Prism Island
A mystery is afoot on Prism Island - and only Paper Mario can solve it by restoring the island's vanishing colors with his new Paint Hammer and the powerful Battle Cards up his sleeve. These fresh layers of strategy, along with the hilarious action adventure gameplay the series is known for, make this one of the most colorful Paper Mario action-adventure games ever.
- A hilarious action-adventure game set on mysterious Prism Island.
- The Paint Hammer lets Mario restore the drained color of Prism Island
- Color in colorless spots to solve puzzles and search for clues.
- Revive Toads who have been drained of their color.
- New Battle Card system
- Cleverly use Battle Cards during puzzling battles to defeat enemies.
- Summon objects with Things cards.
- Use Enemy cards to summon allies.
- The new cutout feature allows you to extract areas from environments to overcome obstacles whenever possible
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Kill it with fire. This shouldn't happen. Story and real turn-based combat should be a main part of Paper Mario. Why did that stupid Japanese survey have to influence this series? (But hey, I guess ign and metacritic will receive this with open arms.)
Remember Paper Mario 2 how you were going up against an evil organization trying to revive a literal demon that could potentially destroy the world?
Now we get a hammer that paints whatever it touches! Isn't that exciting?
I've dropped sticker star for a lack of interest in fighting, no leveling, no reward whatsoever for fighting makes a very dull rpg. At least super paper was a platformer, and I knew what to expect. mario & luigi is now the best mario rpg series for me.
Give this a game a chance.
@Sticker
The trailer showed everything fans already don't like. Maybe it'll have a good story, but so far its just toads. If enough people try to like this game, Nintendo won't see any problem to fix; the PM series won't have a chance to return to its roots.
I'm actually super hyped for this game! I did really like Sticker Star...so that probably has something to do with it, but I think it'll be even better than that game! Color Splash looks like it won't be like the Thousand-Year Door, which is very saddening. However, what we ARE getting looks pretty good as well! The Rescue V trailers are very funny, the graphics are very pretty, and it all around looks like an enjoyable experience! The battle system may look disappointing, but regardless I bet this will be a solid Paper Mario game.
From the complaints, I'm pretty excited to try this out. I can't stand when 'games' go all out on story rather than gameplay. From when I played Paper Mario 1 & 2, I just remember wanting to get into more timing-based attacks/defends. If it was up to me that would be Paper Mario 3; no story, or walking around, or turn based battles, just timing-based actions, one after another, as that was the most enjoyable aspect of those games to me.
The more I see of this game, the more I like it. Admittedly, I would love for the series to return to its roots, but instead of complaining about what the game doesn't have, I'm rather excited by what is there... And it still looks more creative than most recent Nintendo games.
@Sticker I am MORE than willing to give this game a chance as I am not bothered about the gimmicks that the developers add.
I have Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door to fall back on after all.
However I will NOT purchase a game with an American title just because I am in the UK and we spell it "Colour"
"Color" Nope...
While this is not the Paper Mario game I wanted, I'm really enjoying it so far.
@Alundra-1998 Very few products from America get released in the UK with the correct spelling.
Does anyone know how many gigabytes this would take up?
One of my all time favorite Mario Games and one of my all time favorite games EVER!!!! Anyone saying negative comments about this game should really give this game a chance. This game is so much fun!!
(PD: I haven't played the original two, they seem the best games in my opinion but I haven't actually played them so if you see this review don't say I'm a Thousand-Year Door purist or something like that, in fact, I love Origami King).
I already played the game, it has a lot going for it. Gorgeous visuals, very interesting locales, great soundtrack, improved story over Sticker Star, and great humor. Good game overall but dragged down by 3 things:
1. The battle system, it's a bummer the game is still on boards with the stickers/cards system, which could be cooler if it weren't so OP. You can buy every card you want because there are so many coins, and weapons cost so little. In the boss battles, you need to enter with the exact thing card, if not you have to go all the way back to a certain level to find it. This makes the normal battles incredibly easy and the boss battles feel like trial and error. At least there is a decent incentive to battle with the hammer scraps, but you'll run of paint very few times, even with the first capacity.
2. Lack of original characters or partners. Again, I didn't play the two originals but I did play Super with had one of the most elaborate stories, which had characters with incredible personalities and a deep ending. This game, even though it improves the basic elements of Sticker Star, still is the same idea as all the Mario games; Bowser kidnapping Peach. Most of the designs are just normal besides some toads but nothing that special.
3. The world map. Yes, I mentioned before that I liked the locations but the world map makes it feel a little generic. The areas aren't connected; you need to travel one at a time. This one isn't a major issue though, I still like the locales.
I could give it somewhere around a 6/10, good game overall but not a type of game that I will be looking to return to.
@Sticker I gave it a chance this year after playing Origami King but I tell you, it's not bad but it doesn't keep me engaged.
Played it all and it's a superb game in every way.
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