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Super Paper Mario is a platformer role-playing game released in 2007 for the Wii, as well as the first game starring Mario for the console. Rather than employing a turn-based battle system typical of the Paper Mario series, Super Paper Mario focuses on level-based platforming gameplay while repurposing some side-scroller mechanics into RPG elements, such as using points as experience. The game fuses elements of 2-D and 3-D gameplay together, shifting back and forth between dimensions as a major mechanic, once being described as a "2.5D" sidescroller by Nintendo Power magazine. The story focuses on Mario, Princess Peach, Bowser, and Luigi journeying across various dimensions to stop a villain named Count Bleck from destroying all of existence. These four Heroes of Light are joined by fairy-like Pixls along the way, granting them extra abilities such as hammering objects or calling up a temporary shield. Their quest requires the collection of eight Pure Hearts, relics imbued with the power of love and key to neutralizing the prophesized end of all worlds.
