Paper Mario: Sticker Star is as big a departure from the RPG stylings of the Paper Mario series as Super Paper Mario and offers a unique adventure enjoyable on its own merits. The Basics The Sticker ...

A trio of goombas ran up and attacked Mario when I started playing Paper Mario: Sticker Star. Instead of selecting fight or magic, Mario selects stickers on the touch screen to do different attacks.

I hate one-time-use items in games. If I get an item that I can only use once in something like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, it’ll sit in my inventory forever. I’m afraid that if I use it, then I ...

Paper Mario: Sticker Star's many charms make it a sweet and worthwhile adventure, though a few flaws interfere with its feel-good attitude. Mario has had many incarnations over the years, but Paper ...

Paper Mario: Sticker Star is one of the more clever chapters in the Paper Mario series, and its sticker-based design rewards exploration and smart thinking. It isn't as RPG-like as the previous Paper ...

The Sticker Star comet flies over the Mushroom Kingdom every so often, and the people celebrate it with a festival. Bowser, king of the Koopas, wants to rule the Mushroom Kingdom, and he crashes the ...

The thing about Mario is that, as much as he looks like a little dungareed chap, he's not really a character. Ever since Nintendo's rise in the 1980s, he's been an icon: the embodiment of pure gaming ...

It’s great to see Paper Mario back in action. In the pantheon of Mario games, this series offers up a delightfully offbeat, light-hearted, self-referential take on the plumber’s world. The central ...

If there's one thing we can learn from its 3DS catalogue so far, it's that Nintendo is great at the safe sequel. Sure, there are out-there exceptions like Kid Icarus: Uprising, but by and large we've ...

"As much as possible, complete it with only characters from the Super Mario world ... it's fine without a story, so do we really need one?" These comments, attributed to Mario series creator Shigeru ...

After beating the game (and watching the credits), the screen will shift to the book from the start of the game. The book closes and the light turns off. At this point, just wait about three minutes.