Tanabe: (Paper Mario) It’s no longer possible to modify Mario characters or to create original characters that touch on the Mario universe

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Tanabe: (Paper Mario) It's no longer possible to modify Mario characters or to create original characters that touch on the Mario universe | ResetEra

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Tanabe: Since Paper Mario: Sticker Star, it's no longer possible to modify Mario characters or to create original characters that touch on the Mario universe. That means that if we aren't using Mario characters for bosses, we need to create original characters with designs that don't involve the Mario universe at all, like we've done with Olly and the stationery bosses.

 Whether a character becomes an all-time hit or not isn't up to us on the development side; I think it's more the case that characters that fans truly accept naturally end up that way. I hope that the origami siblings in Paper Mario: The Origami King will stay in players' memories, even if they do only end up appearing in this title.  Click to expand... Click to shrink...  

So there we have it folks, official confirmation that Nintendo is mandating the Paper Mario games to no longer have original characters like the ones we saw in PM64/TTYD/SPM.

 What battleship.  

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