The Best Paper Mario

Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door

In my opinion Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door is the best Paper Mario to come out, as a game that came out in 2004 it is still known for its story line and being a game that really sticks in a persons mind due to how it has deep character development. Not only is this game an extremely entertaining game, but it also has many benefits. For example, the game teaches players key character development skills. A major skill being the importance of teamwork and cooperation. As many people carry out their lives, they are going to be in situations almost everyday where they need to work with other people and know how to cooperatively get along with one another. Throughout the stages of the game, you move through chapters, in each new chapter you acquire a new partner to help you move through the stages, which teaches players how to work with different types of people in different situations to solve problems.

A large part of the game is developing Mario and his partners, every time you level up you have a choice to either give Mario a plus five health bonus, a plus five flower power, or adding three points to your badge points. These all play a role in the game to decide how they want to beat the game. When the player level ups they are presented on a stage with the three choices and each choice describes how each choice will describe them, when you pick the health bonus it is described as "Increases max HP by 5! Great if you lack confidence." This is meaning if you are not confident in your ability to finish a fight quickly or if you are bad at blocking attacks and not confident in your abilities. When you chose to level up your flower points, which is used when you do special attacks. The game says "Max FP will go up by 5. Select this to use skills often." This is for when you equip badges for battle that enable special attacks such as the quack hammer, the spring jump, or even the ultra hammer. But if you have a high FP you will also need a large amount of Badge Points to be able to equip badges to even be able to use the special moves in battle. If you level up badge points the game describes it as "Increase max BP by 3! Great if you like to use badges." Thus meaning that when you level this up you can use more badges which is an easy way to gain an advantage over the enemies.

Overall Paper Mario the Thousand Year is still one of the best games to ever be created due to how much strategy there is as well as the character development and how the game treats the player throughout playing it with helpful advise but as well as being a fun game that at certain points breaks the third wall. The character development is crucial to a game because the player comes out better as a person with a faster mind, a new way to look at problems and a sense of adventure. Over all this game is definitely worth playing if you want a great experience and to develop your character or your child's mind.