Paper Mario: Color Splash has been around 30 minutes and people already hate it

By Nick Pino

Like any other fanbase, certain sects of the gaming community can get a little … intense. Today that troup’s target is Paper Mario: Color Splash, the newly announced sequel to 2012’s Paper Mario: Sticker Star and the continuation of Nintendo’s longstanding experiment with Super Mario RPGs.

Paper Mario: Color Splash was announced during a Nintendo Direct held earlier today and, within 30 minutes of its trailer debuting, already had a petition on Change.org calling for the game to be canceled.

You might be thinking, “Well, the game probably has some offensive material in it like a hateful, sexist message or an attack on a group of people.”

That might be the case normally, but from the brief one minute and ten seconds we’ve actually seen of the game, it didn’t look like it.

So why are some people up in arms? Fans of the franchise claim that the game looks too similar to Paper Mario: Sticker Star, the last entry in the series that was released in 2012 to positive or slightly less than positive reviews from critics and media.

Check out the trailer from today’s Nintendo Direct for yourself below. (The portion with Paper Mario: Color Splash …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming