>>62106618In all honesty the game is solid a Paper Mario spiritual success but Paper Mario games were always lame gameplay wise. What was cool was seeing the Mario characters reimagined in an RPG setting, NPCs got to be fully fleshed out characters with their own outfits and personalities. You got to explore new places outside of the popular landmarks. Sticker Star and onwards sucked because the gameplay was realy bad, but more importantly it sucked because all the soul was sucked out, toads were only allowed to look like toads, new races were no longer introduced, nobody was allowed to wear cool RPG esque costumes and ve visually distinct from one another.
Bug Fables attempts to recreate the classic paper mario trilogy feel and does it well, except it had none of the appeal which was the MARIO characters doing all those things. tl;dr the best spiritual success to paper mario is just making a good paper mario game for once
