Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is a turn-based role-playing game and the second entry in the Paper Mario series, set in a world styled to look like paper. Players guide Mario through themed locations…
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is an adventure developed by Intelligent Systems, released 22 July 2004 on Nintendo GameCube. The main story takes about 24.9 hrs to finish.
What Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is an adventure game developed by Intelligent Systems and released in 2004. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only. It runs on In House Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the seaside town of Rogueport, Princess Peach acquires a mysterious treasure map said to point to a great fortune hidden behind the fabled Thousand-Year Door, sealed beneath ruins built atop a town that sank long ago. Peach sends the map to Mario, but she is soon kidnapped by an alien group called the X-Nauts who are after the same treasure. Mario travels to Rogueport and learns that the map reveals the locations of seven Crystal Stars needed to open the door. Gathering allies along the way, he sets out to collect the stars, rescue the princess, and uncover the secret of what lies behind the Thousand-Year Door.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Mario series
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is the 339th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Famicom Mini: Super Mario Bros. 2 in 2004. Its critic score of 90 is 13 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.
How it was received
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 91, across 567 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 24.9 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 40 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door launched on 22 July 2004, within three weeks of Doom 3, ESPN NFL 2K5, Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga and World Soccer: Winning Eleven 8 International. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Doom 3, ESPN NFL 2K5, Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga, World Soccer: Winning Eleven 8 International.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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