Toads are everywhere in the game, and they're almost all hilarious. Sharks dance-off between Koopas all expertly tickle your giggle-glands, it is the uniformly designed, but easily distinguishable cast of Toads that coax the biggest laughs. While a stealthy Dark Souls reference, an Exorcist-like spider-walking Shy Guy and a Jets vs. Really though, the location is just a superb blank canvas for chucklesome in-jokes and a showcase for one particular race of characters: the Toads. Ostensibly, Color Splash is all about collecting Paint Stars to restore the island to its technicolour glory, besting Bowser and stomping Goombas along the way. In a playful inverse of Super Mario Sunshine, this particular sun-drenched resort also has a paint problem - only this time it's a lack of the stuff. In this way, Color Splash's light-hearted, innuendo-filled, fourth-wall-breaking humour is exactly the kind of Paper Mario game fans should love.Ĭolor Splash sees wafer-thin cutouts of Mario and Princess Peach whisked off to Prisma Island. into a enjoyably ludicrous, self-referential farce. It is about Nintendo letting loose and turning the deification of Mario and co. Paper Mario is not about giving the fans what they want. A loosely written rulebook that utilises traditional Super Mario assets to have a long, hard laugh at the lofty reputation of a world principally constructed from mushrooms, magic and otherwise.
Nintendo has enjoyed several similarly knee-jerk, futile petitions over the past few years (hello Metroid Prime: Federation Force), but in hindsight, this particular call-to-arms somehow cut right to the core of Color Splash's gameplay issues whilst simultaneously missing the point of the series entirely.Įver since the halcyon days of the Nintendo 64, the Paper Mario franchise has toyed with the tropes and accepted norms of gaming's most iconic figurehead.īuilding on the off-the-wall, dimension-hopping antics of 1996's Super Mario RPG on each console it has graced, Paper Mario has repeatedly thrown out its own rulebook. Within 30 minutes of its Nintendo Direct debut, Paper Mario: Color Splash and its paint-fuelled take on the idiosyncratic Super Mario spin-off had riled a select few fans enough to warrant a petition calling for its immediate cancellation.Ĭiting similarities to the last Paper Mario release - Sticker Star for Nintendo 3DS - the 'campaign' asked the Japanese publisher to bin the newly-announced game and instead "give fans what they've actually been waiting for."
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