Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

About Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is a 2004 role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo, part of the Mario series. It released on Nintendo GameCube, holding a 9.1 / 10 aggregate score.

What sleeps behind the door? Time passes, the pages turn… and a new chapter unfolds in an unfamiliar land!

Get ready for a two-dimensional role-playing adventure for the ages as Mario returns to paper form to discover a mystery that sleeps behind an ancient, legendary portal called the Thousand-Year Door. The quest is long, the dangers many, and this time, Mario will have to make full use of his papery qualities just to survive.

JRPG details

Developer	Intelligent Systems
Publisher	Nintendo
Platforms	Nintendo GameCube
Genres	Role-playing (RPG)Adventure
Themes	Action Fantasy Science fiction Comedy
Modes	Single player
Perspective	Third person
Engine	In-house engine
Franchise	Mario
Series	Paper Mario
Languages	English Japanese
Tags	ghosts dinosaurs gravity detective magic mascot turn-based death 2.5d maze cooking backtracking undead princess blocks dialogue trees slavery easter egg sequel high score yoshi silent protagonist turn-based combat bats turtle boss fight anthropomorphism platform exclusive train level alternate costumes professional wrestler leveling up human polygonal 3d damsel in distress upgradeable weapons breaking the fourth wall transforming boss party system collectibles non-player character save point treasure chest character growth side quests royalty using dialogue to avoid combat melee secret area unbeatable enemies self-referential humor parrot violent plants floating island moving platforms real-time waiting villain recurring boss level cap sleeping tentacles temporary invincibility vore boss assistance evil organization unskippable cutscene fetch quests not-so-bad guys linear gameplay gliding boomerang bros.kidnapping poisoning in-game e-mail fire manipulation resized enemy surprising character switches sleeping enemies battle screen hammer bros.counter system restoration creature compendium foreshadowing moat sealing your own fate hidden room dark second act greatest hits interactive battle system ship deck battle interactive achievement awards 2005 turn-based rpg dinosaur riding nintendo gateway system interconnected-world