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Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam - How Sticker Star influenced the game, how tutorials were handled

by nintendaan
08 February 2016
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This comes from a GameInformer interview...

How Paper Mario: Sticker Star influenced the game
AlphaDream: While we referenced all of the Paper Mario series games during production of this title, the title we were influenced by the most was definitely Paper Mario: Sticker Star. This is because we wanted to base the game on the latest data. We of course received advice and supervision from Intelligent Systems during production. We think that this is one of the reasons that we were able to refine our depiction of paper elements and better express the “paper-like” design in this title. If you look closely, you can see a white border around the paper characters, right? This did not exist in Sticker Star, but we think that this design makes it easier for the player to understand that “this is a paper character!”

On how tutorials are handled in Paper Jam
AlphaDream: We didn’t “remove” the tutorial for this title. (Laugh) There are actually tutorials (or guides) for all of the action and battle systems. In previous games, we had the game ask “Do you want to see the Tutorial? Yes/No”. Players who didn’t have any other information would have to choose “Yes”, but when they actually viewed the Tutorial it was information that they already knew. This time, we implemented a system where the game would detect whether the player was skilled at action games or not, and had the game display a detailed tutorial for players who were not as good at action games (who cannot get “Excellent” or perform Countering Attacks).

The tutorial is not displayed for players who are good at action games, leading them to think that “there is no tutorial for this title”. Of course, we show tutorials for all players for game systems that were newly implemented in this title, such as Trio Attacks and Battle Cards.


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