Hello and welcome to Nintendo Voice Chat. I'm your host, Brian Altonna with me, Rebecca

Valentine, Parrish Knighter, and Seth Macy. Good morning. Happy Nintendo Direct Day.

We just got a brand new Nintendo Direct, 40 minutes of games we knew about, some surprises,

some little things, some stuff launching literally today. So it's great. I want to start

off with Paper Mario 2, the Thousand Year Door, which in 2004, Parrish Knighter called when

he reviewed it. Highly recommended, takes the cake as the best Mario RPG yet. Parr was

racking his brain to figure out if he actually remembered reviewing that himself turns out

you did. Yeah, he makes the cake, man. I don't remember what system it was on though.

What a game. Parr says the story is funny. The gameplay varied in the world is so charming

you want to explore every last corner of it. I love this game. It is. It's a great game.

This is one of those games that is once again highly beloved by Nintendo fans, was kind

of landlocked to the GameCube for a very long time. Also, you know, the Paper Mario franchise

went in some interesting directions after this. I personally enjoyed Super Paper Mario

after this, but I think it's pretty well. It was more of an action game. Yeah, it's pretty

well regarded that it kind of dipped away from its more traditional RPG roots.

It sort of split into the Mario and Luigi's stories, Rest in Peace. And then there's

the 3DS one, which I didn't really like. I thought I thought our, you know, our Switch

Paper Mario installment was a quality game, but the battle system was kind of messed up,

right? Yeah. It just wasn't as fun at this spinning disk system for battles, not as

great as what this game did, which is, you know, it really, it really brought turn-based

battles to life with the, you know, button presses, the time button presses. It's a common

thing that you can see in so many games today. Yeah. This was, this was still really fresh

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