Paper Mario: Sticker Star Everyone is made of paper, buildings are made of cardboard, and you and enemies can even get "crumpled" by powerful attacks and have to wait to be flattened out to fight.

"As much as possible, complete it with only characters from the Super Mario world ... it's fine without a story, so do we really need one?" These comments, attributed to Mario series creator Shigeru ...

Paper Mario appears on the surface to hearken back to earlier games in the series, before Super Paper Mario added dimension-flipping mechanics and other complications. And in many ways, it does.