Paper Mario: Color Splash review: Beauty at a finger swipe
Paper Mario: Color Splash unleashes beautiful scenes from the Wii U gamepad's screen. Credit: Nintendo
PLOT It’s Mario to the resuce again.
RATED E for Everyone
DETAILS Wii U: $59.99
BOTTOM LINE It helps to have a familiarity with previous Mario games.
As with much of the entertainment adults make for children, the seemingly harmless Paper Mario: Color Splash is rife with winkingly hostile moments, which are made imaginable by the proposition that people are paper. The game opens following a traumatic ink-letting involving three masked characters and a postal worker. Princess Peach is frightened after having received the postal worker’s drained corpse in the mail and decides this is a problem only a hero like Mario can solve. Using the postmark as a convenient reference, they trace the letter back to Port Prima, which, they discover upon arrival, has become a ghost town strewn with the blank white scraps of paper that used to be life. Fortunately, death is always reversible in cartoons, and soon enough Mario is launched on a familiar quest to hunt down Bowser — the series’ unkillable master villain who’s vexed Mario since Nintendo lore began in 1985.
— The Washington Post
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