I picture Col. Sanders.

Today was a good day

Exactly!

Did you miss the full title? They already called it Justinpressions. :-)

@@lwaves ah yeah I know, just putting a more literal spin on it

In my best mcbain voice..."thats the joke"

I'll second this.

You're thinking of Craig

This is Jim...MMMUUUHAHAHA.

I wonder what its like to take a stroll through sir sterlings mind

@@cream_soda you got to it before me.

He is. The personalities are so distinct they have different voices.

I replay the beginning several times due to how well that song syncs with the game.

This Justin?

Honestly I wouldn’t expect less of anyone who has hung out with Jim for more than an hour without running off into the night screaming.

What a great idea!

Couldn’t agree more

I can't stop watching it

agreed and nice to see you here!

I just want the paper!

8ball & MJG*

Tempted to make a similar vid with Rack City haha. Ain't as good as 90's but would still work.

@@MiguelDLewis Nah it's clearly the Fat Boys.

This. All of this

I disagree with the second point, because I doubt any big shots cared enough about the system of Color Splash to tell devs "NO, YOU CAN'T SORT BATTLE CARDS INTO SUBMENUS, EVERYONE MUST SCROLL THROUGH THE ENTIRE DECK EVERY TIME". I honestly just think this series is being developed by a team that either hate or simply don't understand turn-based combat. Thus, whenever the combat is uninspiring or frustrating, they think they've succeeded.

@@Nyzer_ Maybe it's less that and more of a need to reinvent the wheel each time something new is supposed to come out. Nintendo loves changing things up when they can as seen with the Wii, DS, and Switch now. Who's to say they aren't trying that with game mechanics?

Damn that second point is so on point. The charm of the core games is they have "character" with a fun streamlined combat, but when the devs see how well that worked in TTYD, they remove it. It's like obsessing at what makes the Mario platformers fun and then...remove Mario's jump. Wh-why?

@@Nyzer_ Given the Japanese cultural opposition to good UI, wouldn't surprise me. Just look at anything Fromsoft makes. They have a weird UI ethos and its not often user friendly.

Give him more time with Sterling. A few more years and his heart will be as black and bitter.

Haha 😆 I was thinking the exact same thing lolol “just give him more time with Jim... and let him learn about the cruel harsh realities of the industry, or even better, let him try for a bit the ‘joys’ or real GameDev in a company... his soul will be drained and his heart turn as black as Jim and most of us...”. 😊 in due time.

Lol me too!

Does ~~~ROYSTON!~~~ from the Duke Amiel du Hardcore days make more sense now, too? :-)

Only when it's Craig.

Jimpressions : This Justin

"Chip"-per, you say? Sure does remind me of someone...

That's exactly what he is. There isn't anything in this video that I couldn't picture Jim saying, but his manic delivery would have taken half the time as Justin's drawl. I wonder if they figured this was the only way to get this video to 5 minutes...

Justin is a sugary sweet cinnamon roll. The canon has been set.

...but isn't that what must Jim fans are here for?

I miss squirty plays

@@Lugh314 why not both?

@@Lugh314 Jim's been getting a bit preachy and his twitter has become abysmal where he's even retweeted softcore furry trans TF porn. Good Christ. So Justin saved my subscription here.

So the guy that everyone loves even though he’s technically #2?

You could say it was - just in time.

Burn the heretic! You thank God for him properly lol

Bravo...*slow clap* .. bravo...

Paper Mario used to have amazing world building with great combat and character dialogue. Calling it same'zy is quite insulting. Cause the only same'zy thing was the combat which could easily be improved/expanded upon.

mangos are coloured orange though

@@sawyerstudio they also had a flight combat series, sci-fi exploration series, and a sci-fi racing series they seemed to completely abandon for more Mario and Zelda... More Mario, Zelda. Mario, Zelda, Mario, Zelda, Mario, Zelda.... Give me a good fucking Starfox, F Zero and Metroid damnit!!! Also bring Starfy back damnit

That's because miyamoto hates rpgs and Nintendo fanboys won't stop thinking of him as an infallible god. Rpg haters shouldn't have any amount of say on how to make an rpg.

Miyamoto allegedly made the call for the games to be watered down garbage. Couldn't say why though. It's a shame, Iwata and Miyamoto were two absolute figureheads for Nintendo's brilliance for 20+ years- hard to say why they ever ruined their own legacy, not just for Paper Mario.

@@Hysteria98 I think Miyamoto's gone down the George Lucas route. Completely obsessing over his "perfect vision" for his creation, to the point that the franchise becomes stagnant and alienating to fans.

Right

@@Hysteria98 There's rumours that there's a "QA Team" in Nintendo that is obsessed with standardizing Mario design, which explains not only why the Paper Mario series became so bland but also the New Super Mario Bros series as well being as spicy as salt. This along with an intentional de-emphasis of plot and character that was given after Super Paper Mario (apparently less than 1% of Club Nintendo poll responders said they liked the plot which is... very frustrating) and a mandate for novelty in Nintendo's design philosophy (that never seemed to appear in the New Super Mario Bros series but whatever) that "required" the undoing of the jrpg style combat. Again, this is all rumours, and there are contradictions (why was BoTW and BoTW allowed to do design seperate from Miyamoto and allowed to experiment with odd tonality and new characters when Paper Mario, a spinoff isn't ...?). But allegedly this rumored group is also to blame for why Waluigi is so segregated from the rest of the Mario universe.

@@fluidthought42 A key component to take away from all this is that the market they listen to predominantly (if any other at all) is Japan. Nintendo have often screwed over the west from time to time. America got off easy compared to Europe. And then whomever else.

Seriously go back and play the first two games and realize that the depth of the combat was the same. Rose-tinted glasses.

@@jacobpipers at least in those first 2 games the battles weren't completely pointless. It was engaging and rewarded you by making you and your partners stronger. Rose tinted glasses my ass.

Jacob Pipers It’s not the “depth” of the combat that’s the problem, but rather the design. The reason people want the old PM gameplay back is because it was *fun to play,* and rewarded you for playing skillfully while at the same time still having variety due to the various badges and partners at your disposal. Whereas in TOK, it doesn’t know whether it wants to be an RPG or puzzle game and so comes across as a half-assed amalgamation of both instead. If it wants the combat to work better, it should either remove the turn-based. battles entirely like in Super Paper Mario or return EXP and badges so that the RPG progression feels more meaningful.

@@amirgarcia547 The game perfectly knows what it wants to be, but you guys are way too narrow minded to see it. Game is a modern classic and time will put it on its place.

If you haven't played it, Underhero is worth a look.

Combat its great, you are all sheeps blinded by nostalgia and dogmatism

@@alejandropradalozano6525 You just responded to mild expressions of differing taste to go into hyperbolic rants about how their opinions are wrong and that makes them dogmatic... apparently without irony? lol Edit: And now i see you're also spamming responses at dissenters. Yikes mate.

Seconded

Thirded

Fourthted?

Fifthed

Sixththed

Yeah especially since a gamecube copy is like $100 disc only now. I would prefer not to emulate it and play a gamecube game with a ps4 controller on my pc, but I won't feel bad about doing so if there's no other reasonable alternative.

Sweet god yes nintendo why do you hate my money

I wouldn't even need it to be remastered, just slap it on the Switch as is.

I mean I've heard other people say that the combat system is not that bad, so... I'm reserving judgement?

@@twiexcursori The combat system is extremely repetitious and lack in choices, that's the main issue. It's more (boring) puzzle than actual combat. Boss battles are more complex and innovative but regular combat is an absolute chore.

@@twiexcursori Imagine twisting/shifting the rings before every single battle. For hundreds of battles. Shouldn't be too hard to decide if you're going to enjoy or despise that level of tedium.

@@LaMangouste You mean like most turn-based battle systems. All battle systems are repetitive.

Jacob Pipers All turn-based battles can get repetitive if you play the game for an extended period of time, but the gameplay in TOK is repetitive by design since you’re basically doing the same thing each battle with little variation due to having no EXP or upgrade system.

And they would somehow ruin it by not including Geno, a massive fan favorite.

Team members for that game formed a new company as AlphaDream and made the Mario & Luigi games. What they're up to now since that company fell through, i'd like to know.

I rather like the idea of Jim adding his two cents into Justin-impressions videos as to just why he doesn’t give a shit about the games in the first place. Just a quick comment like in this one is funny and keeps things connected to him still.

Paper Mario is dead. Bug Fables has risen from it's ashes to take it's throne.

@@nobodyinparticular9640 Not really. Bug Fables easily rivals TTYD, yes, but as far as I'm aware it's a one-off that they don't intend to follow up on ? Like, the strength of Paper Mario is that it's a franchise. It's something you can look forward to every few years (or at least we could have, if they stopped fucking with the formula...). Bug Fables was excellent, and I'm certainly going to replay it every so often 'cause it's just that good, but we're not waiting for a Bug Fable 2. It's done and over with. It doesn't fulfill the same itch for me.

Nobody In particular "BuG fAbLeS" no

Well there's main Mari... oh. Well there's Legend of Zeld... ah. Metroid? Hoo dumpster fire there. What else do they have? ... That they REMEMBER they have?

i mean to be fair mario and zelda's reinventions were super well received and i kind of respect a company that, for the most part, explicitly wants to do something different and new each time in an industry filled with games that are the same as the first really successful one but with a different gimmick. i wish some of that would rub off on gamefreak, id kill for an interesting pokemon game.

VenomSnake1984 ... Zelda 2.

@@adamvancleave9200 why do you think "Zelda 2 was bad" is a good counter point? You know that was made thirty years ago, right? At a time when games were an incredibly new medium. There have been Zelda games made since that one. I'd think you'd be over it by now.

@@DiamondDogVenomSnake1984 I didn't say it was bad. Just that it's hated.

No. This game has trash collectibles and the collecting of these collectibles is the real gameplay which is just absurd. You unlock tools to help you find the collectibles which just makes one wonder why the collectibles even exist.. It's just stupid lazy """content"""

@@yuuup862 sounds like a harsh critique of dk64

I like this game and it's combat system BUT I've never played a Paper Mario or Mario RPG title.

The collectibles in a platforming game are only fun to collect if the platforming is fun. Paper Mario is not a platformer.

@@Gothstana It has many platforming elements.

I remember reading that they took it in this direction originally cause they wanted to promote the Mario & Luigi series as they main flagship mario rpg series. Which is ironic considering that they guys who made those games are now bankrupt. I just wish they would take it back to the old rpg formula they had.

@@Altoryu But can't you use logic to dictate that they went bankrupt because nobody was bloody buying the games? If they revert Paper Mario to it's old form, the wankers in all of us will like it because "It's like thousand year door" but they won't sell any copies so what's the point?

@@JoeyMarshall The last 'couple' of games AlphaDream developed were Remakes that had needless and often-times disliked additions made to them. The studio went bankrupt because they weren't allowed to develop anything new since 2015 and the release of the 'Paper Jam' game, which would be on Nintendo. The only games they worked on (and likely only allowed to do) were the remake of Superstar Saga for 2017 and the remake of Bowser's Inside Story for 2019. They usually had at least one other project in development for release alongside the Mario and Luigi series, but after 2009 that was halted. I can't speak of what all was happening, but that was likely what killed the studio. That, and Nintendo exerting more control... especially since by 2012 the Paper Mario team were barred from modifying or creating new characters that 'touch upon the Mario universe', which might be partly why they were made to scale back. It can be rather difficult to get insider information as to what happened though with Japanese companies unless it starts to hit upon Kojima/Konami levels of fractures. It could be a situation like 'Metroid: Other M' where development went... fine, but the game was just trash. Or it could have been a bloody mess of things with Nintendo cracking down harder on what they could or couldn't do. The only thing of note I've seen about things regarding Nintendo is them shoving Paper Mario away from the RPG spectrum because they didn't feel the need for it with Mario and Luigi around. Which implies that AlphaDream may have been needlessly locked by Nintendo into it without being allowed to really adjust or sculpt the RPG mechanics for M&L since they were the defacto 'rpg game' side then.

@@JoeyMarshall this is exactly the problem. The mario RPGs don't sell well.

Because they like hurting us.

I think it depends if u like puzzle game or not there. If u are not good at them, i can see u not liking the battle system. I love it especially during boss battle as it really make me think and i need to that in limited time. Remind me a lot of Inteligent System Pushmo puzzle game there. Great puzzle series.

I personally like the mook battles, but the boss battles sometimes have me ripping my hair out (Looking at you Ice Vellumental)

@@jefurihartono1630 I'm generally *good* at puzzle games, but what I am not is super *fast* at puzzle games, and that's what gets me--if there weren't a time limit or if failure to complete it perfectly just meant you got off a less-than-great attack rather than no attack at all? It probably would have been massively better. Instead, I'm kind of enjoying it but I am burning a hell of a lot of coins on extending the time, and I'm not even that far in yet. When I have to do that even for routine fights often, oof.

@@jefurihartono1630 I like puzzles, but to have to do one every single time I enter combat sounds really annoying, especially considering what the series was like early on.

@@ultimateblade4127 u dont need to enter combat everytime actually. Remember u can upgrade mario health? The higher his health, he will be able to kill goomba or normal enemies without entering battle just like Shin Megami Tensei.

Even Color Splash was visually impressive, but it was wrapped in a shite game nobody really liked. This game is improved enough I can see people actually liking it, but not good enough for me to want to play it. I'll probably just watch Let's Plays of it.