Weekend Paper Mario OC thread

I think the issue with the battle system is Mario himself.
He is the star, and as such, he has 70% of all the moves, badges and stuff, not to mention he has to be in the party at all times. He could be by himself and still be fine. The partners are just supplements to his coverage.
It would be better if it was like Bug Fables where all party members are mostly the same in what they can do, just with different specialties. So either everyone in the party is a Mario, or Mario is gone and you focus on other species.
I remember someone mentioning in pasts threads about using a Hammer Bro as a protagonist, since they can jump and hammer like Mario can, and also have the story be about a ragtag bunch of Bowser's minions instead of Mario saving the Mushroom Kingdom for the 9999th time, and it would allow for plots that Mario would never tackle.
Nintendo would never do it since they need Mario to sell, but a fangame could make something like that happen.

so how does this work?
is it a discount vermin Zig Forumseekend without the tournaments literally?

That and just making up chapters and locations, we also have a booru

sounds fucking lit mate, tho before i start drawing stuff, i should likely watch a lot of gameplay videos so i know more on the lore and less likely to fuck up
and before you ask questions yes i'm sort of moving out of Zig Forumsermin Zig Forumseekend, its now fucking full of shitposters and unirocally fucking dead

I'd like to see a fan game like that be made, but to try to fix what you said about Mario and the party members as well as expand on the badge idea, what if partners could wear badges? There could be partner exclusive badges or universal ones or even character exclusive ones that change their attacks

Here is the link to the booru paperbooru.booru.org/

Any ideas for new badges?

thanks bro, enjoy this mermaid that i got on a NSR thread
now maybe i should draw something by copying the Paper mario style, so thats gon' be fucking hard with fucking Dysgraphia

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Not really, but I did post this
The only idea I kinda had was one that just increased the speed of everything in battle. Just something to speed things up/add difficulty if you wanted it. Not my idea, but I'd love if the berserker badge was actually put into a game

>what if partners could wear badges? There could be partner exclusive badges or universal ones or even character exclusive ones that change their attacks
That's literally what Bug Fables does and it works pretty well there since it expands a lot on your build options. If we go with the idea that all party members are on Mario's level in what they can do, then it can expand a lot of the battle system as everyone is capable of many special builds and things better suited to that specific character.

Should we also let it be possible to fight without Mario

I'm kinda amazed these threads became a thing instead of just a one off.

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I’m happy that they’re still around

If the game stars Mario then he will hog all glory anyway, if it is a Nintendo made game.
Fangames can get away with it by making him optional, but I think the best idea is to ditch Mario completely and focus on a ragtag team of random species or minor characters just trying to do something Mario wouldn't, a smaller story that builds on the lives of the random people in the Mushroom and Koopa kingdoms instead of always focused on Peach, Bowser and all the faces we already saw thousands of times.
Unfortunately Nintendo will never do something like that since they can't do such a "risky" idea without guarantee success for the shareholders.
It reminds me of this fan project I saw once called Everclear Night that starred just a bunch of random mooks, no Mario in sight. Too bad it didn't go too far before the artist gave up on it.

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speaking off, here some rough sketchs i designed recently, while they arent truly Paper mario like, they are more or so sketch that i could in theory re-use for the PM style

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Honestly kind of hard to tell what each is supposed to be, but still pretty neat

going from top to bottom
1: unmanned Missile artillery thing powered by wood in WW2 ,germans experimented with wooden powered tanks
2: Potential 'broken mech strapped to a moving platform on the cieling' boss design
3: 2 wheeled bullet bill assault vehicle
4:a submarine with those tanks turrets slapped on it

Sounds pretty cool

ye though if i ever should refine them, i should try to do the PM style,well if i can

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Change some of them to be stylized to be bullet bills, banzai bills, king bills or torpedo teds