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{{about|the first Paper Mario game for the [[Nintendo 64]]|the series as a whole|[[Paper Mario (series)]]|the character in [[Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam]] based on [[Mario]]'s appearance in the Paper Mario series|[[Paper Mario (character)]]|the stage in [[Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS]] and [[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]|[[Paper Mario (stage)]]}}

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''Paper Mario'' was initially in development for the [[Nintendo 64DD]] under the name ''Super Mario RPG 2''<ref>Owsen, Dan (January 1998). ''Nintendo Power'' Volume 104, "Insider Collector's Edition". [[Media:Nintendo Power NSider Collector's Edition Volume 104 Page 16.png|Page 16]].</ref> (also called ''Mario RPG 2''<ref>[https://www.ign.com/articles/1997/07/30/miyamoto-reveals-secrets-fire-emblem-mario-paint-64 IGN: Miyamoto Reveals Secrets: Fire Emblem, Mario Paint 64] - interview from 1997 where ''Paper Mario'' (under the name ''Mario RPG 2'') is mentioned as a 64DD title in development</ref> or ''Mario RPG 64''<ref>[https://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/papermario/0/1 Iwata Asks: Paper Mario: Sticker Star: "Going All Out with Stickers"]</ref>) and intended as a sequel to ''[[Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars]]''. Concept art posted by ''Super Mario RPG'' artist Kazuyuki Kurashima on his Instagram account in 2019 indicated that [[Samus Aran]] and [[Link]] from the ''Metroid'' and ''The Legend of Zelda'' franchises would have appeared alongside ''Super Mario'' characters.<ref>{{media link|SMRPG2 Concept Artwork 1.jpg}}</ref> It later became the first installment of the [[Paper Mario (series)|''Paper Mario'' series]] and would go on to receive several sequels; the first in the same style of gameplay (''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''), followed by four in different playstyles (''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', ''[[Paper Mario: Sticker Star]]'', ''[[Paper Mario: Color Splash]]'', and ''[[Paper Mario: The Origami King]]'').

The story opens with a place that lies far beyond the sky and far above the clouds, called [[Star Haven]]. Within the sanctuary of Star Haven lies the Star Rod, which can grant any and all wishes. The seven [[Star Spirits]] use this artifact to watch over and protect the [[Mushroom Kingdom]]. Until one day, [[Bowser]] and [[Kammy Koopa]] appear in the sanctuary. Bowser shatters the protective seal over the Star Rod and grabs it in hopes of using its power to defeat Mario. The Star Spirits are then trapped inside cards by Kammy Koopa.

The prologue begins with the seven Star Spirits manifesting over Mario on the ground, and use their remaining power to save his life. Mario's unconscious body is then found by a family of friendly [[Goomba]]s, who carry him back to their [[Goomba Village (location)|village]]. While knocked out, he receives a vision from one of the Star Spirits, [[Eldstar]], urging him to go to [[Star Hill|Shooting Star Summit]]. After waking up, Mario meets the Goomba family who found him, including [[Goombario]], the family's son. Kammy Koopa appears to confirm that Mario is still alive, and blocks the gate out of Goomba Village with a yellow block. After a short venture that involves Mario saving the family's grandfather and a battle with a local troublemaker called [[Jr. Troopa]], Mario breaks the block using [[Goompa]]'s hammer. Goompa requests that Goombario join Mario on his quest and together they leave Goomba Village. While traveling [[Goomba Road]], the connecting strip of land between Goomba Village and Toad Town, Mario and Goombario are confronted by the [[Goomboss|Goomba King]] and his two lackeys, the [[Red & Blue Goomba Bros.]] The protagonists manage to defeat them and reach Toad Town, where they continue on towards Shooting Star Summit.

Meanwhile, in the sky, Princess Peach finds herself trapped in her room. Not knowing what to do, she wishes for someone to help her, which summons [[Twink]], a Star Kid who only recently ascended to Star Haven. Though unable to help Peach deal with Bowser directly, he agrees to deliver the [[Lucky Star (Paper Mario)|Lucky Star]], Peach's magical pendant, to Mario and help in whichever way he can.

|Fra=Prologue: L'appel des Etoiles

|FraM=Prologue: The call of the Stars

After leaving town, Mario finds the way to the Koopa Bros. Fortress inaccessible to him, so he takes another path to [[Koopa Village]]. He arrives to see the local [[Koopa Troopa]]s being harassed by [[Fuzzy|Fuzzies]], who are stealing their shells. One of the victims is [[Kooper]], who asks Mario for assistance in getting his shell back. Upon returning it, Kooper is so grateful that he joins Mario's group.

|Fra=Chapitre 1: A l'assaut de la forteresse!

|FraM=Chapter 1: Assaulting the fortress!

After crossing Dry Dry Desert, Mario enters a settlement called [[Dry Dry Outpost]]. After exchanging some items for information, he meets with the town leader [[Moustafa]], who hands him a [[Pulse Stone]] and tells him to let it guide him to the resting place of [[Dry Dry Ruins (Paper Mario)|Dry Dry Ruins]]. Following the Pulse Stone's signal through the desert, Mario finds a stone pedestal to set the stone into. The entrance to Dry Dry Ruins rises out of the sand before Mario, and he enters the ruins.

|Fra=Chapitre 2: Le mystère des Ruines Sec Sec

|FraM=Chapter 2: The mystery of Dry Dry Ruins

After returning to Toad Town from his trip to Forever Forest, Mario finds the town overrun with [[Shy Guy]]s stealing people's belongings. Mario and his friends are able to trace the source of the Shy Guy attacks to one of the vacant houses in the residential area. By hiding inside with Lady Bow's ability, Mario is able to observe one of the Shy Guys open a hidden door to a secret back room hiding the Shy Guy's Toy Box.

|Fra=Chapitre 3: L'Invincible Tubba Blubba

|FraM=Chapter 3: The Invincible Tubba Blubba

Eventually, Mario reaches Red Station, where he encounters and battles the [[Big Lantern Ghost]], who upon defeat drops his lantern and flees. Inside the lantern is [[Watt]], a [[Lil Sparky|Li'l Sparky]] who was captured by the Shy Guys and used as a light source. Being grateful for being rescued, Watt joins Mario's group.

After that, Mario locates the Shy Guys' central base of operations, where he meets their leader, [[General Guy]]. He rallies his men and sends several waves of Shy Guy infantry against Mario and his friends, who dispatch them one after another, and eventually himself. After defeat, General Guy and his Shy Guys flee, leaving Mario able to rescue [[Muskular]], the fourth Star Spirit.

In Peach's Castle, the Princess encounters Gourmet Guy during one of her secret trips outside of her room. Gourmet Guy tells Peach that he is technically obligated to let the guards know he saw her wandering around, but that he might look the other way if she went into the castle kitchen and baked him a cake. Peach complies and, with Twink's help, bakes a strawberry cake, which makes Gourmet Guy ecstatic. Once he regains his composure, he informs Peach that the next Star Spirit is being held on [[Lavalava Island]], an island to the south. The Princess ends up being spotted by Kammy Koopa and escorted back to her room.

Mario heads to the Toad Town harbor where he meets [[Kolorado]] the archeologist and a [[Whale (character)|whale]]. The whale offers to carry Mario and his friends over the ocean, but only if Mario enters his belly to cure a bellyache he has been having. Inside, Mario finds a [[Fuzzipede]] irritating the whale's belly. After fighting the Fuzzipede and getting it out of the whale's belly, Mario's group ride the whale to Lavalava Island, with Kolorado joining them to find treasure.

|Fra=Chapitre 4: Joujou dans le Coffre à jouets

|FraM=Chapter 4: Toy in the Toy Box

On the island, Mario and Kolorado find the entrance to [[Mt. Lavalava]] inaccessible due to a lava river. They head to the nearby [[Yoshi's Village]] to ask the locals for information, but the village is in a state of panic because their kids went missing in [[Jade Jungle]]. Mario heads into the jungle to search for the missing children and finds their caretaker, [[Sushie]], stuck in a tree. After being freed, she joins Mario to locate all of the missing Yoshis and bring them back to their parents. With the kids returned and the villagers pacified, Mario is able to talk to the [[Village Leader]] about reaching Mt. Lavalava. The Yoshi suggests seeking out [[Raphael the Raven]] in Jade Jungle. Mario finds Raphael on top of a large tree in an area accessible only with the [[Jade Raven]]. Raphael offers his assistance by summoning his Raven followers to construct a set of ropeways to help Mario across the lava river.

|Fra=Chapitre 5: Ça chauffe sur l'Île Lavelave

|FraM=Chapter 5: Hot on Lavelave Island

|Fra=Chapitre 6: Sale temps au Champ de Fleurs

|FraM=Chapter 6: Bad weather in the Flower Field

|Fra=Chapitre 7: Etoile des neiges

|FraM=Chapter 7: Snow star

|Fra=Chapitre 8: Final des Etoiles

|FraM=Chapter 8: Finale of the Stars

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*Parakarry withdraws into his shell and attacks all enemies regardless of their position and ignores their defense rating.

*When standing at a wooden platform near water, Mario can jump on Sushie's back and ride her through the water.

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|Restores 15 HP.

|Restores 5 HP and 15 FP. It can be used to bribe [[Anti Guy]] and get access to his [[Power Plus (badge)|Power Plus]] Badge without a fight.

|Restores 20 HP.

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*[[Toad Minister]]

===Oink-Oink Farm===

[[File:Lil Oinks.png|thumb|Lil' Oinks in their pen.]]

Once the Koopa Bros. have been defeated and the road to the southern part of Toad Town has been cleared of debris, Mario can visit Oink-Oink Farm. For 10 coins, the player can purchase an egg that will hatch into a Li'l Oink and move into the nearby pigpen.

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*'' Paper Mario'' was originally going to be called ''[[Super Mario RPG 2]]'', but was later renamed "''Super Mario Adventure''" (while still in development) due to legal reasons. Eventually, it received its finalized international title to emphasize the unique graphical style of the game.  

*After the cutscene that takes place when Mario is defeated by Bowser, the ''Paper Mario'' logo is displayed similarly to how the ''Super Mario RPG'' logo (sans subtitle) is displayed after [[Exor]] crashes into [[Bowser's Castle|Bowser's Keep]] and destroys the [[Star Road (Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars)|Star Road]].

*Revised versions of [[Star Hill]] and the Chancellor from ''Super Mario RPG'' reappear, although this is lost in translation in the international versions, with the former being renamed Shooting Star Summit and the latter the [[Toad Minister]].

*The [[Shy Guy]] riot in [[Toad Town]] is similar to [[Mack]] and the [[Shyster]]s' takeover of the Mushroom Kingdom in ''Super Mario RPG''.

*In both games, Bowser's castle is unreachable throughout most of the story. In ''Super Mario RPG'', it cannot be reached because the bridge is down; in ''Paper Mario'', the castle is up in the sky. Also, both games feature a special vehicle that is used to reach the castle (the [[Royal Bus]] and [[Star Ship]], respectively).

*Both games feature a volcano as a location where a star is hidden. Both areas have an escape sequence after locating the Star, though the reason behind it is different (in ''Super Mario RPG'', the Axem Rangers are escaping with the Star; in ''Paper Mario'', the volcano is erupting).

*Both games feature a sidequest involving helping an artist ([[Toadofsky]] in ''Super Mario RPG'' and the [[Master Poet]] in ''Paper Mario'') complete a piece of music, though the specifics of how they're resolved is different.

*''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' - Piranha Plant turns into a [[Putrid Piranha]] during its Poison Breath move, and spits poisonous gas to damage other fighters. It is also mentioned briefly by Viridi during Palutena's Guidance dialogue for Piranha Plant.

''Paper Mario'' started development as a sequel to ''[[Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars]]'' and production was initially handled by staff that worked on the game. [[Ryota Kawade]] was brought in as the chief director and designer,<ref name="Shmuplations">GSLA (English translation by "Blackoak", August 20), "[http://shmuplations.com/papermario/ ''Paper Mario'' – 2000 Developer Interview" (GSLA)]". ''Shmuplations'', Retrieved August 24, 2020.</ref> with [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] co-producing the game. Early in development, it was decided to divorce the project from ''Super Mario RPG'' and the developers took a year and a half to experiment with character and graphical style ideas, including pre-rendered sprites (like ''Super Mario RPG'') and polygons. Although development was initially done with {{wp|Silicon Graphics}} workstations as with most first-party Nintendo 64 games, the final game's graphics were done with internal [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super Famicom]] tools. Art director Naohiko Aoyama was responsible for creating the series' distinct paper-like style for character graphics,<ref name="twenty">[https://www.pcmag.com/news/20-years-ago-nintendo-transformed-the-rpg-genre-with-paper-mario#:~:text=20%20Years%20Ago%2C%20Nintendo%20Transformed%20the%20RPG%20Genre%20With%20Paper%20Mario,-Thor%20Jensen&text=Error!&text=It's%20undeniable%20that%20Nintendo%20masters,the%20kart%20racer%20and%20more. "20 Years Ago, Nintendo Transformed the RPG Genre with ''Paper Mario''"]. ''{{wp|PCMag}}''. August 11, 2020.</ref> taking inspiration from the graphics of the PlayStation's ''{{wp|PaRappa the Rapper}}'' and traditional animated films, such as those in the {{wp|Walt Disney Animation Studios|Disney}} animation canon or the ''{{wp|Looney Tunes}}'' franchise.<ref>[https://www.ign.com/articles/1997/11/22/mario-rpg-is-for-the-kids "Mario RPG is for the Kids"]. {{wp|IGN}}. November 21, 1997.</ref> Aoyama believed that players would prefer a game with "cute" paper-like character designs over one with low-polygon 3D graphics.<ref name="twenty"/>

The original characters introduced in ''Super Mario RPG'' were not featured as the developers felt it was better to stick to "the main road" of the ''Super Mario'' franchise.<ref name="Shmuplations"></ref> The story was conceived early in development and the developers decided to focus on making other aspects of the game appealing to all players in the long run rather than making it "about some grand enticing story", especially as it was felt serious and dramatic themes would be at odd with the lighthearted feel of the franchise.<ref name="Shmuplations"></ref>

Particular focus was placed on the battle system, its designing taking up about half of the game's production time.<ref name="Shmuplations"></ref> As the developers were aware the game would be primarily played by a young audience, the game was balanced around the idea that combat would not be so easy as to be mindless but not so difficult that it would discourage players. The [[Action Command]]s were included to appeal to more seasoned players and the [[Badge]] system was put in place to simulate the traditional RPG feeling of growing stronger as the game progresses without featuring equipable weapons or a large amount of stats.<ref name="Shmuplations"></ref>

 

The development of ''Paper Mario'' took four years, a very long development cycle for the time.<ref name="Shmuplations"></ref> Outside of Intelligent Systems, the development involved auxiliary work by uncredited personnel from {{wp|LucasArts}}, {{wp|Sonic Team}}, [[Rare Ltd.]], and [[Ubisoft]], according to Miyamoto.<ref>Imamura, Takao; Miyamoto, Shigeru (1997). Nintendo Power August 1997 - Pak Watch E3 Report "The Game Masters". Nintendo. pp. 104–105.</ref>

PM Prerelease Poochy.jpg|An early screenshot of ''Paper Mario'' with Poochy in it.

PM Prerelease Net-Enut.jpg|A [[Nep-Enut]] as seen in an early screenshot of the game.

PM Prerelease Forever Forest 2.jpg|A pre-release screenshot of the Forever Forest, with different trees from the final game.

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*The name "Paper Mario" appears in transcribed form in certain Japanese materials related to this game, including on the back of that region's packaging, despite it not being the title of the game itself there.