RTGame Streams: Super Paper Mario

[@Spicygoats]

Fun fact: it took me years to figure out that the main gimmick of this game was something the Paper Mario series had all along, a 3rd axis. They took away an element of the game and gave it back to us like it was some special thing we've never had before... and it WORKED! Young me was so excited to play this game and now I'm just as excited to watch RT play it! Hell yea!

[@Nerdgirl9853]

Super Paper Mario was where the gameplay began to be ignored for purpose of gimmicks, yeah. The game was still great, but it was also the beginning of a bad pattern the series would afterwards devote themselves to

[@PlayerN101]

@@Nerdgirl9853 I give SPM a pass for that, but it would of been nice if it went back

[@BossAwesomeSauce]

@@Nerdgirl9853 I feel like the story made up for it cus imo super paper mario had the best story slightly biased cus i grew up with this game

[@Nerdgirl9853]

@@BossAwesomeSauce Oh I love the story of SPM the most. Has the best story and characters. I just prefer the gameplay of the original and TTYD.

[@NotEmilio]

super paper mario is the best paper mario game and i am 100% willing to die on this hill

[@JacobTheToadMan]

SUPER PAPER MARIO LETS GOOO! Time to get emotional over a pixilated butterfly again!

[@thebadassflareon5494]

Hope he plays all of them none of the KZbinrs I watch does

[@0gar485]

Every time!

[@ITS_PIZZA_TIME]

The best part about that girth check is that Peach out-girths Mario and Bowser with a whopping 1,000,170 girth points.

[@noone6991]

I find that hilarious

[@cloveland2210]

Girth units? Just come pick up these boxes

[@thequeenofcringe1585]

*What*

[@azazaeld2094]

@@thequeenofcringe1585 in shipping, boxes are weighed in girth units

[@thequeenofcringe1585]

@@azazaeld2094 *why*

[@Flipface4]

Super Paper Mario Spoilers: You notice how Count Bleck only speaks in third person sometimes? It's likely "Count Bleck" is a character in the Dark Prognosticus, thus when Blumier took the book, he forced the title upon himself.

[@cadence_2463]

The story only gets sadder the more you think about it

[@arcanosmox7113]

This is my absolute favorite game and I have absorbed as much info about this game I could. I have never once thought of this, what a fantastic theory

[@xViaOnYoutube]

bro went out of his way to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy smh

[@TheKelliestKelly]

I'd forgotten the new villain's name so I was really relieved when he said Count Bleck. I thought RT was taking the piss saying Count Bleck so many times but then I looked at the screen. I forgot how much the dude says his name

[@setech4441]

Almost makes you wonder if he owns a charizard

[@willphoenix5464]

said Count Bleck

[@ado-]

The man who hit the like button... is Count Bleck!

[@sopeachy.__]

Bleh bleh he he BLECK

[@TheGeladoo]

He talks as if he's the story's writer, narrating his own dialogue. It's really cool

[@Sod1ePop]

I still can't believe some people looked at Mimi and said "HOT GIRL ALERT"

[@loftwingheropon2743]

That’s the internet for you, it is messed up beyond reason.

[@idklol7558]

Cringe

[@MadWeegee]

They all be saying that til they see 2-4

[@sethingram987]

Unless they're just joking around and making a reference to chapter 3

[@TheJared38]

Well, it's projection on their part, but the maid outfit plays a role, plus her attitude puts her right into the " Bratty Little" square.

[@undefender]

1:45 RT starts talking 6:28 Game Starts

[@arwenxevenstar2060]

Thank you !

[@masterxanonomas]

Thanks dude.

[@jusgodsself-insertoc]

A decade ago i did literally get the whole million just by the hamster wheel room. I held down the button, changed the channel and switched back every few hours to see my progress. It took several hours but I did skip the whole vault part of the story

[@tehogpotato]

As a kid I never beat this game because I thought the pit of 100 rooms was mandatory and I couldn't beat it

[@MadWeegee]

Hah, I thought it was mandatory too, but I actually had my mom beat it for me. Thanks, mom.

[@NyanMango]

@@MadWeegee That's really sweet. The only game my mother would play is Wii Fit Plus

[@KuueenKumi]

That sounds like something I would have thought. As a kid, I thought the screen effect when your Pokemon was poisoned meant you had low batteries. My mom couldn't understand why my Gameboy needed so many batteries :P

[@starboundsingularity]

As a kid, I never beat this game because I couldn't get past the first fight with O'Chunks

[@williamcovington4752]

Paper Mario fans may not see this as the best of the series compared to TTYD, but god the memories I have of playing this with my dad are absolutely magical

[@sadnessofwildgoats]

yeah same I used to play this with my mom but when I tried it on my own I would always get too scared to complete the mimi fight. past that point i would just give the controller to my mom who would play while i watched.

[@ceoofceos5219]

Super and Origami King are probably my favourites.

[@voguishthrone5887]

When my dad had to be hospitalized, my mom would play this to cheer us up. It’s some of my fondest memories despite the bad situation

[@bobveinne2439]

Fucking hell! I literally just got done watching the Super Mario Galaxy 2 stream archive and thinking, "Man, really hope Dan does Super Paper Mario or TTYD some day." *BOOM!* Right here, most cherished game in my childhood. Thank you.

[@mcstar916]

Omfg he should play TTYD

[@RiverDragon-jv1ty]

@@mcstar916 what's ttyd?

[@RiverDragon-jv1ty]

wait nvm

[@bobveinne2439]

@@RiverDragon-jv1ty Old video game franchise called *Terror Tortoise: Yellow Danger.* It was developed in China 1993-94, but didn't do so well in the Western market.

[@disisgudcomic3629]

@@bobveinne2439 what

[@Natu-Shabby]

Throughout my entire time watching RT, (it's been a few years now at least) I've always thought "Man, it would be so cool if he could play Super Paper Mario!" (Probably one of my favorite games of all time, holds a very special place in my heart) Needless to say, when this popped up in my recommended? I was literally doing a pogface for several minutes

[@AlliumForest]

Same on all accounts!

[@amskakal]

Hey folks! He starts talking at 1:53 and gameplay starts at 7:27. Happy watching!

[@thebadassflareon5494]

Thank you good sir/lady i dont know which

[@Papercatts]

Thank you kind stranger

[@TheShinyiest]

Good man yourself

[@BossAwesomeSauce]

WYSI

[@wah-gb5xe]

bruh the text scroll sfx the nostalgia is hitting like a truck. this game holds such a special place in my heart, and im just so happy rt’s playing it. god this is going to be great

[@XenolithexDroid]

I watched the entire cut down version, and then came to watch all the VODs because I love this game and wanted to see RT play it all. Like seriously, this game is masterful

[@Sod1ePop]

"from count bleck!" Add that to the... COUNTER BLECK [Laugh Track]

[@v3r91l7]

This honestly means the world to our system, nearly all of us have an identity from this game and RT has helped us out of some dark times unknowingly. We love this man to death. Thank you so much, Dan.

[@KuueenKumi]

Huh?

[@stevendorries]

@@KuueenKumi dissociative identity disorder, I reckon.

[@jaysefgames1155]

"So what filename are we going for?" Me: 'call it gamer.' "Just call it gamer. Okay." :D magic

[@sadnessofwildgoats]

im surprised that count bleck hasn't been oncelerified yet . . .

[@willphoenix5464]

do not tempt fate

[@hobobohemian]

Eh he has more of a DILF energy

[@trisaratops8785]

Dont give the internet ideas

[@jeonghoonchoi5046]

@@hobobohemian good point

[@Anrd0meda]

...I can change that- But I'll keep that locked in a chamber for now at least

[@Rusty_Dino_Lover]

So we have a cat that we lovingly nicknamed "void boy" and I'm just imagining him is every scene, doing the whole 'stare into the void' thing cats do

[@magicalgh0st]

Ah gOD the voice at the end😂 it was so cursed and the chat was *horrified.* 😂😂

[@noodlelynoodle.]

His cursed voices are why I watch more than anything lmfao, I need to see him play something with toad as the main character

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

I had a dream last night featuring Tippi. I've never played or seen this game.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

5:01:50 Ah, yes. My favorite appetizer. *_The Oars Dorv._*

[@tinyz7575]

God I remember when I was young and couldn't read well I did chapter 2-3 manually the slowest way....jumping.

[@alyxb7311]

... and rumor has it, TinyZ has not paid off their creditors to this day~

[@georgerobins4110]

You poor soul

[@noone6991]

How long did that take you??

[@gregorythehuman]

Damn that file naming music is boppin

[@jusgodsself-insertoc]

Oh this is makin my day. I love paper mario and have been dying to see one of my fav streamers play one of em.

[@rise-my-angel]

not often a video game bad guy has my name, was very suprised to hear Dan casually say "Mimi" lolol

[@spencercarlton4006]

"I am 256 times more powerful" proceeds to do 2 damage

[@noone6991]

That means that if they weren’t in that dimension, they would deal 0.0078125 damage. Yes, I used a calculator.

[@drzaiusplayground8597]

@@noone6991 actually its cause 256 causes an overflow, they do a normal amount of damage in the real world, but magic world fucks up the integer limit

[@perkyelixir2254]

@@drzaiusplayground8597 doesn't really make sense though, the damage should be a multiple of 256 which 2 is not. If you want to get 2 you would need a floating point number when multiplying by 256 and overflows don't happen with those

[@drzaiusplayground8597]

@@perkyelixir2254 yeah you're probably right i don't know much about overflows lol

[@jorjadavidson7243]

RT was talking about not knowing the controversy of the paper mario series, and I'm bored so I'm gonna try my best to list them. *Paper Mario*: Pretty universally liked, it was the second mario rpg ever made and the 2.5d style was because it was styled after a pop-up book. People liked it for the fun gameplay, interesting characters, and detailed world, it was just all very new and interesting at the time. (Additional fun fact, in paper mario Luigi's secretly wants to join mario, where in super star saga he desperately wants to stay home. Luigi's Mansion was released in-between these two games.) *Paper Mario, the thousand year door*: The fan favorite, it was everything people love of the original and more, the partners talked more and bantered with the bosses, there was an additional interlude for bowser bumbling about, the villain was intimidating, peach unknowingly seduced a computer. It was fun, it was funny, it had a cool story and even some character development. It was perfect, it set an absolute golden standard for the series. (Which may have effected peoples reaction to Super a bit) *Super Paper Mario*: Super was *very* different, a break away from the pack in every way. My guess, at least, is it was trying to get more people into the series by combining elements from other games. A paper mairo story taken to the next level, with more traditional mario gameplay, sounds good! The problem? Paper mario fans liked the rpg gameplay as much as they did the story and missed the talkative partners, while the usual mario fans found the story to be too much and the cutscenes long and slow. This lead to A LOT of negativity. Though, it was still the best seller. *Paper Mario, Sticker Star*: The bad one, a pretty universally disliked portable Paper Mario game. It was kinda just a dumbed down version of the first two, and was hated for it. According to what I've seen said the problems were- there was only one partner now and she hated you. The story boiled down to "Bowers did a bad and now he's extra evil." They refused go more than a sentence without mentioning the fucking stickers. Said stickers were the *only* way you could attack and annoying as well. And, it's greatest offence, it was the first game to switch paper mario from an rpg with an aesthetic to the "everything is paper, isn't that fun?" games (Which, I personally don't mind, but bothers most people). What it did do well, was bring in people who didn't have the ttyd standard, and just enjoyed the game as it was. It was a bad game, though perhaps a bit exaugurated. *Paper Mario, Color Splash*: An... okay game. It had a lot of the same stuff from Sticker star, but less jarringly. It focused even more on the idea of paper physics, but running around painting stuff was neat. It had the same battle mechanics with a few quality of life changes and a different name, and the story was really similar to sticker star, so people who hated sticker star still didn't like it. This is really where a divide set in, because lots of people loved the game while many original fans felt it was a cheap knock off of what once was. If nothing else, it was very pretty. *Paper Mario, Origami King*: A pretty good game. Basically just confirmation that the series has not and will not go back to how thing were, though old fans did get their multiple partners back, kinda. It's gimmicky, but pretty funny and seems to be agreed on as a generally fun time. The old fans aren't really as up in arms about it anymore so it's actually mark on it's own merits than it ttyd's shadow, so its just, good. And that's about it, I think that describes the internets opinion as well as I can, hope someone finds this helpful.

[@Tulip_bip]

i just find it so sad how super paper mario went further with its story than any mario game ever did, and then the game after erased all of that and made it as generic as possible. super paper mario's story is like, shockingly meaningful and has some really good emotional moments, which is something that i think it did better than TTYD

[@Luigipotter]

Those two koopas with peach should be appreciated.

[@yourbiggestfangirllivv]

OMG THE MUSICAL TIMING AT 2:16:20 HELLO??? DID NO ONE NOTICE THAT BEAUTIFUL ACCIDENT

[@yukkikatsuki3341]

id like t o have a conversation with the people in development who decided we needed to see Mimi's head spin twice

[@charlesswinton2947]

I got my copy of Super Paper Mario offhandedly at a retail store several years ago. Didn't know then that I'd love it as much as I do now, but I'm so glad I got it when I did. A very great game that I highly recommend getting for yourself if this interests you.

[@noone6991]

1:53:20 the guy in Flipside said “um” 25 times, I counted.

[@BigCheeseIsReal]

um... um... um... um... um... um... um... um... um... um... um... um... um... um... um... um... um... um... um... um... um... um... um... um... um...

[@magicalgh0st]

“You learn something new everyday”

[@grassypond]

Totally watching this whilst waiting for Dan to livestream this game again. I am so goddamn ready to see the rest of the story. Never been so captivated by the plot of a Mario game before.

[@corruptedplayer]

this game has by far the best plot of any mario game. the final boss is also really amazing

[@AlliumForest]

It's so good!

[@NatetheNintendofan]

Dan who

[@corruptedplayer]

@@NatetheNintendofan RT's name is Dan

[@MrGowose]

OMG PAPER MARIO!! Honestly, it's one of my favorite game series even if the newer games of Paper Mario haven't been the best per se. I still find them fun because of all the colors, it's such a happy game and really cheers me up!

[@MrGowose]

The newer games aren't bad though. I like them. They're just not as good as I feel like they could've been.

[@cactusguy4363]

I don't know if it's the whole speech about girth, but even the name "Thudley" sounds like an innuendo.

[@natorgator]

When I saw toad I know that the world was gonna end.

[@quinnsakala5961]

I just hope my pixl boy Barry doesn’t get left behind in chapter three

[@yeehaw6334]

I'm so glad he's playing this!!! I replayed it every summer all through middle/high school it is my absolute favourite game!

[@LarsHayton]

oh this game has such a special place in my heart im so happy youre playing it

[@matteoquellobrutto5765]

1:42:41 in the italian version "count Bleck" is called "conte Cenere". Conte means count and cenere means ash, which as no correlation to the original name whatsoever. in fact, in the italian version the the "bleh heh heh" laugh never ends in "bleck" but in "bleh", however he still talks in third person. Also most of the game names are different. Also also O'chunks in the italian version il called "Pugnazzo" wich means "crazy strong punch" (it's difficult to explain it XD) in rome's dialect...he also talks in Rome's dialect.

[@galaxykirby18]

The sad thing is, with how things are going with Nintendo right now it seems like we're never going to get a game as ambitious and charming as this game again.

[@BananaWrathful]

It was the wrong day for RT to meet the girth pixl with bowser...

[@telephonontv]

Absolute childhood :)

[@Anrd0meda]

Honestly, this game and it's lore is incredible I really was naïve thinking Mario galaxy had some deep lore (with roselina's backstory and all which never fails to make me cry) But my god I really overlooked SPM just because it wasn't a traditional Mario game How foolish I was-

[@Sod1ePop]

honestly if someone went to me and said "hot boy alert" I'd be like "wow thank you but fuck off, you're scaring my family"

[@KetsYok]

Count your Bleckings eheh

[@tessselllate]

rewatching this series for the 3rd time while i work on hw. thank you for playing this game!

[@cloveland2210]

There is a special place in hell for people who don't make the png have a real transparent background

[@elliottwood5423]

I love this game with all my heart, if I forgot every game but one, I would want it to be this game, it’s not my favorite game technically, it has some dry parts, it might not even be the best in the series, but the precious memories this game brought me are unforgettable, when I’m old and not close with all of my family, and maybe some will have passed, I know i will come back to this game to cherish the joy that it brought me, thank you nintendo

[@chibi3593]

it's great seeing RT play one of my favorite games of all time

[@cadence_2463]

I forgot how charming the game aesthetic was.

[@JohonTheMighty]

This was my childhood game, glad to see him play it

[@zoltankiss3737]

11:55 thankfully that's the last scene in the game with a toad

[@JOHNCENA-ji3rm]

Nooooooooo!!!

[@NatetheNintendofan]

@@JOHNCENA-ji3rm nobody cares John Cena I don't like wrestlers like you neither does my brother crystal said you will be cursed by the gods of Minecraft bow down to to Crystal the shapeshifter or prepare for death has John Cena doesn't bow down okay death just kill me I want to die okay shape-shift into killer bee from Minecraft mod things you to death shape-shift back into healed Minecraft person then like bye bye have fun dead

[@FSTR_4]

cultured irishman plays Super Paper Mario.

[@mohabexpert123]

In mu honest opinion this is easily the second best paper mario behind ttyd, I say that having put like 100+ hours into it as a kid, and its my favorite game of all time, this game's story is an absolute phenomenon, and the worldbuilding is excellent

[@ShizzyMcCreepy]

This game is so fucking good

[@Robin_Glorb]

Bosses O'Chunks ~ 1:13:30 *Fracktail* ~ 1:29:18 *Mimi* ~ 3:23:30 Bowser ~ 4:23:18 Blooper ~ 4:42:00 Dimentio ~ 4:59:23 *Francis* ~ 5:25:04 Character Themes Evil King Bowser Here ~ 12:09 The Evil Count Bleck ~ 13:29 Bleck's Minions: Count Bleck's Plan ~ 32:26 The Pixls: Strange Company ~ 58:48 O'Chunks, Warrior ~ 1:13:30 Fracktail Appears ~ 1:29:18 Dimentio, Charming Magician ~ 1:30:33 Count Bleck: Champion of Destruction ~ 2:09:55 Mimi, Copycat ~ 3:12:00 Big Blooper Appears ~ 4:42:00 Francis: Butterfly Collecting ~ 5:04:23

[@yaboi467]

Omg this is my favourite game of all time I haven't played it for years I'm so hype rn

[@NotEmilio]

Super paper Mario is the best paper Mario game and I will die and this hill

[@ghetis396]

3:12:30 I just realized, Mimi predicted Nosk from Hollow Knight

[@shamussarrazine6623]

RT talking about Swamp levels reminded me of the entirety of Celica route Act 4 in Echoes

[@Dalestair]

This is certainly not what I was expecting to be the marathon game.

[@evebolton2236]

2:36:25 'this is the chapter where my old copy of the game would just break' Um so I started playing this game now on my very old Wii and after going in all the rooms, went back to Mimi. Needless to say, the screen froze and my Wii made a horrific sound :D

[@georgerobins4110]

YES I LOVE THIS GAME I KNOW WHAT IM DOING FOR THE NEXT 15 HOURS

[@superwooper5210]

Yoooo, my favorite game ever

[@nisrasha6842]

Who stole princess peach it must have been that bad guy Von Karma

[@KuueenKumi]

Pretty sure Mimi was on a list of top ten effed up Nintendo bosses....

[@madds6983]

Dude I cried in Paper Mario: Sticker Star over a God damn sticker. If this is anything like that Let's Go Edit: Wait I didn't mean to kinda repeat one of the other comments sorryyy

[@hazmat7242]

i dont know if its because im sick or its just the game, but this feels like a fever dream.

[@bricelory9534]

Definitely the game leans into that, for sure.

[@frost598]

Did...did a boomer just vibe check him xD

[@saxophonekat1444]

Yooooo super Paper Mario I love this game!!!!! Also this games music is amazing!! So is the story and characters and settings and art and game play and everything

[@loftwingheropon2743]

4:30:24 both xenoblade 1 and 2 have amazing swamp levels so that’s a example of a good swamp level, other than that I got nothing.

[@KuueenKumi]

The one from Banjo Kazooie wasn't too terrible

[@edwardvandermeer7455]

Ah a fellow man of culture i see. Xenoblade did so wel with the swamps

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

4:37:17 and he makes fun of chat for liking the funny numbers

[@polarvortex6496]

Everyone gangster until Peach pulls out the sudo rm -rf /*

[@Sod1ePop]

you missed a strawberry.

[@Nerdgirl9853]

He missed a lot of strawberries, yeah. Its annoying. 😔

[@LumberZeus421]

This about to be the best 16 hours of my life

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

5:37:54 may he step on a lego

[@jackhazardous4008]

I literally stopped playing this game because every other line of dialog was a pun

[@Ridiculous77]

You missed out big time

[@ANobodyNamedDex]

Well you sound fun.

[@MrGowose]

I loved this game because of its puns

[@MrGowose]

@@ANobodyNamedDex They're just not a fan of puns. It's not a bad thing to dislike puns.

[@ANobodyNamedDex]

@@MrGowose it’s less about that they don’t like puns, it’s about the way they phrased it. If they said “oh yeah I don’t like puns so I didn’t finish it” then that would have been fine. But saying “ I LITERALLY (I’m just putting emphasis here) stopped because EVERY OTHER LINE(again emphasis) was a pun” they are acting like because puns are common in a Mario rpg game that it ruins it. The puns are common but it’s not like they take away from the beautiful story it’s telling.

[@yallowapples]

Mario but make it a Lovecraftian horror story

[@leobastian_]

2-3 is by far my favorite level in this game. i dont really know why, the gimmick is very charming to me

[@TheJared38]

But let's ask the important question here: How much GIRTH is there, in Dimension D?

[@ShaOryDow]

WARNING TOAD VOICE INCOMING! XD

[@NatetheNintendofan]

5:15:08 that reminds me of some of a Minecraft mod call Dimensional Doors and you can get the fabric block and it also fabric reminded me of another Minecraft API called fabric yeah rtgames should really do a stream of modded Minecraft

[@NatetheNintendofan]

4:55:40 those Koopas look like they're the most swag the series

[@solidfire2923]

one of my major problems with this new hub, and how it doesn feel like a hub. It feels like the generic towns in the other regions, just stretched out. I would particularly feel very glad if this acted more as a hub, like the older games, where you find the entrance to the world's by exploring the hub. Every entrance to the new world is just replaced by the Heart Pillar. And presenting the new heart opens it up. It would work really well with a new gimmick. How Flipside is really empty, except for a few people. And the more chapters you complete, more residents from those worlds come join you in flipside

[@cryochick6736]

No joke The chameleon scene with peach made me uncomfortable enough I muted this and fast forwarded

[@NatetheNintendofan]

3:31:35 this must not be Merlin from Super Paper Mario oops that's I'm pretty sure that the N64 one is also called that or is it called Paper Mario 64 and Paper Mario the Thousand-Year Door

[@Gamer22Mad]

13:40 Uhhh, watcha lookin at Bowser?

[@amahe7043]

Halo CE had the best and most horrifying swamp level

[@galaxygerm1037]

This is late but the freezing thing was a uh. a glitch in the European version of the game, where if u talked to Mimi a second time in chapter 2-2 it juts froze for some reason, they recalled the copies I think. I know the wiiu version of the game (unsure which version) literally has a chance to freeze on EVERY screen which i believe has killed speedruns of it.

[@the.muffin]

Omg im so hyped for this

[@NatetheNintendofan]

4:42:00 I know we just played on this game so I wonder what happens if you go back there as luigi

[@KuueenKumi]

1:38:08 5:36:34 This song in the bg sounds awfully similar to a track from FFX. 'Phantoms'.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

3:29:35 Luigi, and... Bowser...

[@loftwingheropon2743]

Did RT say this was a blind play through or not? If he did I missed it.

[@superwooper5210]

He's played through it before, but it was a long time ago so he doesn't remember everything.

[@MrGowose]

He said he's played before, he doesn't remember everything but he remembers the twist at the end I think, that's why he got so upset when people on Twitch decided to be assholes and spoil the game for other people

[@loftwingheropon2743]

Super Wooper thank you

[@isolatedegg3234]

Francis was too ahead of its time.

[@austinknightdark5768]

After rewatching the first 2 games the lack of 3d actually is upsetting lol

[@NatetheNintendofan]

The HP is critical sound is the same as Paper Mario 64