Paper Mario: Color Splash is built on paper and paint, but it places its biggest bet on cards. With the RPG inclinations of the original Paper Mario and its beloved follow-up Paper Mario: The Thousand ...

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Paper Mario Color Splash feels more like walking through a board game or a diorama than like playing a video game on Nintendo’s Wii U console. The fifth game in this side-series, Color Splash also ...

The Yellow Toad Rescue Squad is one of five squads in Paper Mario: Color Splash that you’ll need to find in order to progress further. You’ll find the Yellow Squad leader at the entrance of the Sacred ...

Paper Mario: Color Splash‘s release date announcement was accompanied by a trailer shown during Nintendo’s Treehouse E3 livestream, which showed off the upcoming Wii U game and some of its new ...

Paper Mario: Color Splash is one of those games that looks to the past to help shape the future. Everywhere you look, it’s referencing previous entries in the series, employing nostalgia to create ...

It's that time of the week for the Media Create charts out of Japan, and there are a few major releases to consider; it's a mix of good and bad news for Nintendo. Elsewhere in the top 20 there's Rise ...

The latest installment in the Paper Mario series that of Paper Mario: Color Splash, has finally been released on Wii U. This was because it was an interesting mix of role-playing and puzzle-based ...

Mario has come in a lot of different styles and shapes over the years, but few have been as memorable as the Paper Mario series. Just like it sounds, the series gives us a 2D cutout version of Mario ...

Paper Mario: Color Splash puts a new spin on the “Mario Paint” idea. Reminiscent of the adhesive gimmickry of Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Color Splash’s main appeal hinges on the joys of painting blank ...

For all the grief Nintendo receives for playing it safe with its marquee franchises, it usually attempts some twist or new gameplay element whenever making another entry in a long-running series. Most ...

Lou Contaldi specializes in both reviews and the business behind gaming. He began writing about tech and video games while getting his Juris Doctor at Hofstra University School of Law. He is maybe the ...