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    EDIT: I have now given Color Splash a good bit of play time and must admit that it's a pretty fun game. The writing, experience system, Huey as a character, and much more easily exceeded my expectations. Mind you, I still hate Sticker Star and Paper Jam, and I will continue to fight for another TTYD-formula entry. Just, please, no one misconstrue this as primarily targeting Color Splash.
    So, although some copies of it have apparently been leaked on the Wii U eShop early, tomorrow was supposed to be the release of Paper Mario: Color Splash. Like most longtime fans of the series, I dreaded it straight from when it was announced up to a few days before its release when Nintendo finally stopped messing around and released gameplay footage that actally revealed how not terrible it was. The reason so many people hated it until then (and that many others still do) is the fact that it obviously takes after its infamous immediate predecessor, Paper Mario: Sticker Star, as opposed to any of the first three games, which are why most of us are even fans in the first place. Seriously, there is some major sentiment against the direction the series is taking right now. Sticker Star, with its carbon-copy Toad NPCs, pointless guessing-game puzzles, a battle system that was unbalanced and had no incentive to actually battle, and most of all, the almost total lack of story, was more than enough of an embarrassment to turn the series' fans against it. The recent crossover with Mario & Luigi, which had many of the same problems, didn't help either. So it's natural that fans don't react well to the fact that they're getting another New Paper Mario entry instead of what they want.
  Luckily, it looks like Nintendo has patched up many of the problems Sticker Star had, to the point where it's actually, if maybe not much of a Paper Mario game, a decent game in general. That's not what this meme is about. It's about the fact that they made another Sticker Star at all. They clearly know that the fans are giving them input (after all, they added an experience system and those atrocious Enemy Cards that they thought could pass for partners), but they adamantly refuse to go back to the formula that worked so well for the first two games. It's sad to see them sabotaging themselves, really.

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    EDIT: I have now given Color Splash a good bit of play time and must admit that it's a pretty fun game. The writing, experience system, Huey as a character, and much more easily exceeded my expectations. Mind you, I still hate Sticker Star and Paper Jam, and I will continue to fight for another TTYD-formula entry. Just, please, no one misconstrue this as primarily targeting Color Splash.
    So, although some copies of it have apparently been leaked on the Wii U eShop early, tomorrow was supposed to be the release of Paper Mario: Color Splash. Like most longtime fans of the series, I dreaded it straight from when it was announced up to a few days before its release when Nintendo finally stopped messing around and released gameplay footage that actally revealed how not terrible it was. The reason so many people hated it until then (and that many others still do) is the fact that it obviously takes after its infamous immediate predecessor, Paper Mario: Sticker Star, as opposed to any of the first three games, which are why most of us are even fans in the first place. Seriously, there is some major sentiment against the direction the series is taking right now. Sticker Star, with its carbon-copy Toad NPCs, pointless guessing-game puzzles, a battle system that was unbalanced and had no incentive to actually battle, and most of all, the almost total lack of story, was more than enough of an embarrassment to turn the series' fans against it. The recent crossover with Mario & Luigi, which had many of the same problems, didn't help either. So it's natural that fans don't react well to the fact that they're getting another New Paper Mario entry instead of what they want.
  Luckily, it looks like Nintendo has patched up many of the problems Sticker Star had, to the point where it's actually, if maybe not much of a Paper Mario game, a decent game in general. That's not what this meme is about. It's about the fact that they made another Sticker Star at all. They clearly know that the fans are giving them input (after all, they added an experience system and those atrocious Enemy Cards that they thought could pass for partners), but they adamantly refuse to go back to the formula that worked so well for the first two games. It's sad to see them sabotaging themselves, really.

www.change.org/p/nintendo-let-…