Most awesome and creative Wii game so far.
Super Paper Mario is another RPG alike the other two Paper Mario games, however it delivers quite a difference in it's gameplay style. A very good change to. Where the old games were slow in there exploring and very slow in there turn-based battles this game keeps moving alike the platforming titles. You never have to go into a battle screen or anything, you battle the enemies right there by jumping on top of them (most of the time). However, its not one hit kills like the platformers, you do damage, you have health and they have health. Some may take upwards 10 jumps, some only 1, it all depends.
You will gain a handful of little friends to help along the way as well (just as the other games did). These friends will let you do things like shrink, user a hammer, ground pound, turn paper thin, etc. You'll have to use these guys to solve puzzles throughout the levels and work your way to the Pure Hearts.
The Pure Hearts are the main focus of this game. You have to collect all 8 of the Pure Hearts to stop the void from consuming all of the worlds. And it will be quite a journey as there is a lot of stuff to do. If you go straight for the story it'll probably take you around 15 hours, but if you really go for all the enemy cards and hidden treasures and everything I'm sure you could easily double that game time. The cards aren't just worthless items either like they are in some games. The cards will allow you to double damage on an enemy for each card you have of that enemy. But, you more than likely not going to end up with cards of bosses until after you have fought the boss. Getting cards is easy to, you can buy some of them or you can buy/find "Capture Cards" which you use like an item on enemies and that enemy will get turned into a card.
This game also changes up the Mario series in general by allowing you to play as not only Mario, but also Peach, Luigi and most suprisingly Bowser. Each have their own abilities such as Peaches umbrella for floating and blocking attacks, Luigi's speed and high jump and Bowsers doubled attack and fire breath. You'll have to work with all these guys to make it through levels.
However, only Mario can pull the real tricks in this game, the 3d flip. Anyone who has seen anything about this game has probably seen the flip from the 2d paper world to the 3d world. Probably the most awesome feature of this game to. With the press of the A button the world will flip sideways and you'll find all kinds of things. You may find hidden pipes, hidden passages, hidden items, hidden enemies. Basically, your going to find yourself doing a lot of swapping hopeing to find something hidden behind that pipe or another passage way to go through.
The story isn't to shabby either. It can feel slow because its a lot of text reading at times, but I never fell asleep reading it so thats a good sign. It's actually paced out pretty well to. Now, my only complaint really is that the game still feels like a novelty more than a real hardcore gamers game. The flipping is really cool, to the point where it seems to feel like the reason I kept playing. But that's not exactly a good thing, at least I don't think so. Hopefully Nintendo puts out a lot more quality games this year for the Wii, but I also hope they feel like less of a novelty and more like a game. Either way this game is a ton of fun to play and extremely creative. I hope that every Wii owner takes the time to give this one a shot. I don't think anyone will regret it.