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I never believed the latter two names were ever official in any capacity, mostly because 'Ala-Gold' (or rather Allah Gold) is from Star War The Third Gathers: The Backstroke of the West.
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Well yeah, that's why I mentioned "fan names", but maybe you can call it unofficial names if it suits them better. I never gotten the impression that they were official anyway, since the first mention for the more popular Bucken-Berry and Ala-Gold came from Destructoid. The 2009 article mentioned it came from a Nintendo rep who prefers not to make a record of it, and given how the names came from there, it's a parallel with IGN's Toad names since Yvan and Wolley came from their 2009 article.I never believed the latter two names were ever official in any capacity, mostly because 'Ala-Gold' (or rather Allah Gold) is from Star War The Third Gathers: The Backstroke of the West.
no safe/gimmicky plot
I agree that Origami King has the best Paper Mario soundtrack overall but I still think in terms of specific songs, there are one or two songs in Super Paper Mario that are as good as, if not better than Origami King's soundtrack. (Champion of Destruction, and maybe Soft Light and Bounding Through Time)I really have to agree that The Origami King has the best Paper Mario soundtrack period, and I say this as someone who has a lot of fond nostalgia for 64s soundtrack. Nothing in 64 can beat the autumn battle music.
I'm not trying to say this to be provocative (though maybe there's a touch of it) but I do think, tonally and from a world design standpoint, sticker star, color splash, and origami king are closer to what paper mario is supposed to be than either thousand year door or super paper mario.
I daresay they're closer to the original vision for paper mario 64.
Sticker star is to paper mario 64 as what paper mario 64 was to super mario rpg at least in terms what sticker star and paper mario 64 tried to do: dial back on plot elements, don't use oc characters in favor of established mario characters to preserve the brand, keep the story cheerful and straightforward.
They had different results in terms of player reception sure but i understand much better why sticker star exists after reading what developers wanted from paper mario 64
people here may know that i'm also guilty for blaming tanabe (and tanabe alone) for character restrictions, but the more i step back to look at the current state of the mario series as a whole, the more exponentially stupid that notion becomes.
Paper Mario: Titty-Widey's random audience mechanics, while not really necessary, are massively overstated.