It feels like it has been 1,000 years since Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door came out for the Nintendo GameCube; mostly because there hasn’t been a game like it since. Max, Logan, and special guest Scott White return to the seedy town of Rogueport to see if The Thousand-Year Door is a grand, epic stage production or a sloppy side show in the series.

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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

• Developer - Intelligent Systems
• Platform - Nintendo GameCube
• Release Date - July 22, 2004 in Japan, October 11, 2004 in North America
• Producers - Shigeru Miyamoto and Ryouichi Kitanishi
• Game Director - Ryota Kawade
• Composers - Yoshito Sekigawa, Yuka Tsujiyoko, and Saki Kasuga

Metacritic - 87/100

Links

• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Wiki
• Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door Prices
• Soundtrack
  • YouTube
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• Paper Mario Color Splash Developer Interview with GameXplain
• Paper Mario's Development Team Lays it All Out
• RPG University Episode 29 - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door with David Brevik

Episode Cover Art by Max Roberts

This episode was originally recorded on May 5, 2021.

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