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Paper Mario: Sticker Star

A sticky situation has never been so fun! There's trouble afoot in the town of Decalburg, where the devious Bowser has disrupted the beloved Sticker Fest by causing the Sticker Comet to explode. Now Royal…

79 10 November 2012

Paper Mario: Sticker Star is an adventure developed by Intelligent Systems, released 10 November 2012 on Nintendo 3DS.

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What Paper Mario: Sticker Star is

Paper Mario: Sticker Star is an adventure game developed by Intelligent Systems and released in 2012. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

On the day of the annual Sticker Fest, Bowser decides to pull a prank and scatters six Royal Stickers across the land. To retrieve these mysterious, magical stickers, which are now stuck onto Bowser and his underlings, Mario sets off on an adventure with Kersti, a sticker fairy, visiting prairies, deserts, forests, snowy mountains and volcanoes around the world.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Mario series

Paper Mario: Sticker Star is the 482nd of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was 25th Anniversary Super Mario Bros. in 2012. Its critic score of 79 is 2 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.

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How it was received

Paper Mario: Sticker Star holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 74, across 59 votes.

What it launched against

Paper Mario: Sticker Star launched on 10 November 2012, within three weeks of Far Cry 3, Hotline Miami, Assassin's Creed III and Halo 4. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Far Cry 3, Hotline Miami, Assassin's Creed III, Halo 4.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

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When did Paper Mario: Sticker Star come out?
Paper Mario: Sticker Star was released on 10 November 2012 for Nintendo 3DS.

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