Paper Mario: Color Splash
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North American cover art
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| Developer(s) | Intelligent Systems |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Naohiko Aoyama Taro Kudo |
| Producer(s) | Kensuke Tanabe |
| Designer(s) | Yukio Morimoto Shingo Igata |
| Programmer(s) | Junya Kadono |
| Artist(s) | Masahiko Nagaya |
| Writer(s) | Taro Kudo |
| Composer(s) | Takeru Kanazaki Shigemitsu Goto Fumihiro Isobe |
| Series | Paper Mario |
| Platform(s) | Wii U |
| Release date(s) | |
| Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Aggregate score | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| Metacritic | 76/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Game Informer | 8.5/10 |
| GameSpot | 7/10 |
| GamesRadar |    |
| Giant Bomb | |
| IGN | 7.3/10 |
Paper Mario: Color Splash (ペーパーマリオ カラースプラッシュ Pēpā Mario: Karā Supurasshu?) is an action-adventure video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Wii U. The game was released worldwide in October 2016.
Paper Mario and Princess Peach get a letter from Prism Island, which they find out is a color-drained Toad. This causes Mario, Peach, and another Toad to set sail for Prism Island. Upon arriving at Port Prisma, the three travelers find the town deserted, with many spots and objects missing color, and that the fountain at the center is dry. A large metal vault appears out of the bottom of the fountain containing a paint can. After Mario tries to open it, the can is revealed to be Huey, the Color Fountain's guardian. After fending off an attack on Toad from a straw-wielding Shy Guy, Huey explains that the fountain is usually powered by six Big Paint Stars, which never run out of paint and are the main sources of it for the entire island. Huey is dismayed to learn that the Big Paint Stars are missing, and asks Mario to assist him in recovering them from Bowser and the Koopalings.
Paper Mario: Color Splash was announced during a Nintendo Direct presentation on March 3, 2016.
On September 22, 2016, the game was made available for pre-purchasing on the Nintendo eShop. However, it was quickly discovered that Nintendo of America had accidentally made the full game available through this method, two weeks in advance of its intended launch date. Nintendo pulled the pre-load option off of the North American eShop on the following day.
Upon its reveal, Color Splash received overall negative reception from fans of the series, who were critical of the game for seemingly continuing the gameplay style used in Sticker Star, which had a lessened focus on RPG elements and story, featured no original characters besides Kersti, and had an over-emphasis on the paper theme instead of returning to the gameplay style of the first Paper Mario game and The Thousand-Year Door. Following the game's announcement, a petition on Change.org was created calling for the game's cancellation, similar to what happened with Metroid Prime: Federation Force (another game that received a poor reception when announced). Nick Pino of TechRadar described the petition as "a frightening example of how quickly, and harshly, we judge games we know next to nothing about."
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