Paper Mario: Color Splash Reviews

Paper Mario: Color Splash is ranked in the 63rd percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Oct 6, 2016

Paper Mario Colour Splash might not be the Paper Mario game everyone wanted, but it's a game that oozes polish and manages to sit somewhere in a niche between RPG and adventure game. It's a memorable journey full of charm, craft, chuckles and a whole lot of paint.

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90 / 100
Oct 5, 2016

Paper Mario Color Splash isn’t frustration-free, but compared to the Mario platforming games Color Splash is light and refreshing, an opportunity to have an adventure with Mario and his friends that doesn’t require lightning-quick reflexes and high frustration tolerance. You’d better be ready for some cringe worthy puns, however.

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9 / 10.0
Oct 5, 2016

Paper Mario: Color Splash is an engrossing journey and a funny and colorful game. It plays a lot like Sticker Star, but does everything better.

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Unscored
Oct 5, 2016

Paper Mario: Color Splash has vibrancy but little depth

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Unscored
Oct 11, 2016

‘Paper Mario: Color Splash’ makes a game of dragging the past into the present

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Unscored
Oct 5, 2016

Color Splash is so damned imaginative and beautiful, though, so colorful and confidently funny. Even when it annoyed me, it was only fleetingly. It makes the abstract world of Mario so personable. Its gentle, playful weirdness and irreverence contrast so positively with the prevailing seriousness of fall’s big games

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Eurogamer
Top Critic
No Recommendation / Blank
Oct 11, 2016

Bowser's latest m'ch�-nations are boringly familiar. Despite the usual fizzy writing, this series doesn't make us crease up like it used to.

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GameXplain
Top Critic
Liked-a-lot
Oct 5, 2016
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Buy
Oct 5, 2016

Paper Mario: Color Splash is a beautiful game that leans on the classic paper aesthetic to deliver a funny, charming and virtually tactile experience.

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