For the next game I’m going a bit retro (but only a little bit) and doing Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door for the Gamecube. I actually have the original Paper Mario as well, for the Virtual Console, and haven’t finished it yet, but it’s not like continuity is important in this series anyway. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s kind of an odd action/platformer/RPG game in the Mario universe where the world is 3D, but the people in it are like 2D paper cutouts.

I didn’t have much time left today so I only really got through the introduction (the Princess is missing, and sent me a treasure map) and basic combat tutorial (kinda RPG-ish, with some action elements), met my first party member, a female goomba (how do you tell?) archaeologist named Goombella, and found a couple star pieces in the first few buildings (I can’t remember what they’re for).