Paper Mario: Sticker Star

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Template:Infobox Paper Mario: Sticker Star is an upcoming RPG for the Nintendo 3DS developed by Intelligent Systems. As the fourth installment in the Paper Mario series, it is the first Paper Mario title to be released for a handheld console.

Storyline

From the game mini-site:

On the day of the annual Sticker Fest, Bowser decides to pull a prank and scatters six Royal Stickers across the land. To retrieve these mysterious, magical stickers, which are now stuck onto Bowser and his underlings, Mario sets off on an adventure with Kersti, a sticker fairy, visiting prairies, deserts, forests, snowy mountains and volcanoes around the world.

Gameplay

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Mario stomping on a Goomba.

After forgoing the classic battle system in favor of a sidescrolling platformer-style system in Super Paper Mario, Paper Mario: Sticker Star returns to the turn-based system from the first two installments. A screenshot shows Mario's original Jump and Hammer commands, with a redesigned layout for the system's touch screen. Partners also return after being replaced by the Pixls, with screenshots showing a Chain Chomp that is assumed to be a partner of Mario's. A clip of gameplay footage has shown this Chain Chomp being thrown by its chain in the overworld, not unlike one of Bowser's attacks in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (and loosely similar to Kooper and Koops from the first two games). One screenshot also shows an outlined object in the overworld, suggesting that players may have to move certain objects around the screen to solve puzzles to advance through the game. According to the Official Nintendo Magazine in Europe, stickers are a major part of the gameplay. These objects appear in the form of stickers, and they will also have the ability to give power ups to Mario, such as the Frog Suit. They can also be used to overcome obstacles. A new feature include a "Battle Spin" slot machine, which is similar to Bingo! in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door; it allows Mario to get set of extra stickers or coins.

The screenshots do not show the gauges for hit points, flower points, etc, during battle. This may suggest that such information will be visible on the touch screen instead. In this game, unlike the first two installments, the Special Points will have a gauge like in Super Paper Mario, instead of individual points.

Confirmed Characters

Protagonists

• Mario

Supporters

• Toads
• Princess Peach

Enemies

• Goomba
• Pokey
• Koopa Troopa
• Koopa Paratroopa
• Dry Bones
• Bob-omb
• Para-bomb
• Boomerang Bro.
• Ice Bro.
• Buzzy Beetle
• Spiny
• Swooper
• Magikoopa
• Snow Spike

Bosses

• Boss Goomba - A group of Goombas that have a Goomba boss on the back of them. Note: One of the Goombas has a crown that looks exactly like the Goomba King's
• Unnamed crowned Monty Mole
• Giant crowned Pokey

Partners

• A Chain Chomp
• A Green Toad
• Kersti

Other

• Wiggler
• Whomp
• Shy Guys wearing sombrero outfits

Confirmed Features

Items

Mario with a variety of items, or stickers.

• Question Block
• Fan
• Cat-0-Luck
• Faucet
• Trumpet
• Mushroom
• Brick Blocks
• Coin Blocks
• Coins
• POW Block
• Recovery Block
• Save Block
• Scissors
• Warp Pipe
• Mystery Box
• Stickers and a sticker book
• HP-Up Heart

Stickers

Attacks

• Jump
  • Power Bounce
  • Multibounce
  • Line Jump
  • Shiny Jump
  • Flashy Jump
  • Iron Jump
  • Worn-Out Jump
  • Unknown triple Boots
  • Hopslipper
• Hammer
  • Shiny Hammer
  • Eekhammer
  • Slaphammer
  • Hurlhammer
  • Burnhammer
  • Unknown Hammer with a bandage cross resembling the Dusty Hammer.
  • Hammer which resembles the Sleepy Sheep
  • Purple Hammer with a Sleepy Sheep label on it
• Frog Suit (Japanese: カエルシール, Frog Seal) -- Works like Multibounce badge from previous games. Does 10 damage to first enemy, 8 to second, and then goes on decreasing by two each bounce.
• Fire Flower
• Ice Flower
• Shiny Fire Flower
• Shiny Ice Flower
• Shiny Slaphapper
• Unknown green Spike Top shell or Spiky Goomba helmet, Japanese name トゲぼうし, which means "spiny hat".
• Koopa Shell
• Unknown green leaf
• Unknown Door

Other

• Battle Spin, similar to the Bingo slot that appears in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.

Obstacles

• Podoboo
• Paper which must be pulled off by pressing . "Koopa" is written on it and it has Bowser's emblem. It should be noted that it is similar to the paper that can be blown off by Flurrie in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.

Confirmed Locations

• A Town area similar to Toad Town.
• A Plains similar to World 1 of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, or Pleasant Path from Paper Mario that appears to be very windy in the trailer.
• A Desert similar to Dry Dry Desert.
• A Snow plains similar to Shiver Mountain from Paper Mario, or World 3 of New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
• A Jungle similar to World 4 of New Super Mario Bros. and World 5 of New Super Mario Bros. Wii. The jungle is shown to have a river.
• A Mountain area similar to World 6 of New Super Mario Bros. and World 6 of New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
• A Lava area similar to Barrel Volcano or Mt. Lavalava.
• A Creepy Steeple-like area.
• A Fortress
• A maze made out of giant playing cards.
• A cave area.
• A sticker shop.
• A Castle area.
• A Colosseum.
• A Ruins with a Yoshi head sphinx similar to the ones in Dry Dry Ruins from Mario Kart Wii.

External Links

• Paper Mario 3DS footage (E3 2010)
• Paper Mario 3DS footage (Nintendo World 2011)
• Paper Mario: Sticker Star (E3 2012)