Paper Mario: Sticker Star | |
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North American packaging artwork
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Developer(s) | Intelligent Systems |
Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
Director(s) | Naohiko Aoyama Taro Kudo |
Producer(s) |
Kensuke Tanabe Toshiyuki Nakamura |
Designer(s) | Yukio Morimoto Toshitaka Muramatsu |
Programmer(s) | Junya Kadono |
Writer(s) | Taro Kudo |
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List of composers
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Series | Paper Mario |
Platform(s) | Nintendo 3DS |
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Genre(s) | Role-playing game |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
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Aggregator | Score |
GameRankings | 75.97% |
Metacritic | 75/100 |
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Publication | Score |
EGM | 6.5/10 |
Game Informer | 8.75/10 |
GameSpot | 7.5/10 |
IGN | 8.3/10 |
Paper Mario: Sticker Star, known in Japan as Paper Mario: Super Seal (ペーパーマリオスーパーシール Pēpā Mario Sūpā Shīru?), is a 2012 role-playing video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS console. It is the fourth installment of the Paper Mario series and is the first game in the series playable on a handheld console. The game was released in North America on November 11, 2012 and in December 2012 in Japan, Europe and Australia.
Unlike the previous Paper Mario games, Sticker Star uses a papercraft visual style that is also heavily incorporated into its gameplay mechanics. Sticker Star introduces the use of stickers, which are littered throughout the game world and are used as items or power-ups, aiding the player in turn-based battles against enemies or in solving puzzles. The plot follows Paper Mario's quest to gather the 6 Royal Stickers that were scattered by Paper Bowser.
Sticker Star features a visual style similar to its predecessors, in which the characters appear as paper cutouts in a 3D papercraft Mushroom Kingdom, with landscapes ranging from snowy areas and forests to volcanoes. The story focuses on Paper Mario's efforts to retrieve the 6 Royal Stickers that have been scattered by Paper Bowser after he attacked the annual Sticker Fest. Paper Mario is accompanied by Kersti, a sticker fairy, who bestows upon Paper Mario the power of stickers.