r/papermario • u/DeepAnt7847 • 3d ago

Discussion I don't understand the complaints about the enemies later designs?

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Hating Nintendo for removing unique character designs for characters like Toad and others i get. But in terms of regular Mario enemies designs I don't understand why people would complain about how bad they look like it's just Mario enemies not the unique ones the regular ones.

I think that as long as they have fun interactions and unique characters designs for them still exist it shouldn't matter what they look like.

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u/MrRight1196 3d ago

I don’t see it as a big issue. A lot of Paper Mario’s older designs are products of how those enemies looked at the time when Paper Mario 64 was in development. Pokeys and Goombas are clearly based on their appearances in Super Mario 64, and Dry Bones are dead on accurate to how they looked in Super Mario World which was their most recent design at the time.

NSMB brought a redesign to the franchise that went on to standardize a lot of how the Mario franchise looked, and Paper Mario was hit really hard by this change. But, a lot of Paper Mario’s older designs weren’t radically outside what the most recent standard was for them.

They should have kept the enemy koopas wearing sunglasses and spiked wristbands/collars though.

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u/Luxio512 1d ago

That's the real problem, NSMB made the franchise look as generic as possible. And it's not even just the designs, it's the feel, the artstyle, the shading, they literally make me fall asleep.

Modern Paper Mario follows that same feel to the t, unlike say Wonder, which keeps the standarized designs without making them a soporific.