With the E3 Expo off the calendar this Summer, game publishers have been scrambling to figure out how best to announce all the projects that would have debuted at the big show. So here we are on a random morning in May, and Nintendo has just announced that a new Paper Mario game will launch in less than two months.
Paper Mario: The Origami King will be available for the Switch on July 17, and not only is Mario forced to team up with Bowser once again, but it also looks like Princess Peach has turned evil…
Mario faces one of his most thrilling challenges yet in Paper Mario: The Origami King when the dangerous King Olly unleashes his plan to fold the entire world. Just when matters couldn’t get worse, he’s bound Princess Peach’s Castle in giant, colored streamers and transported it to a distant mountain. He’s even transformed Bowser’s minions into Folded Soldiers and enlisted them in his treacherous cause.
The game’s Announcement Trailer, which has been embedded above, gives us a good look at some of the new features coming to The Origami King.
Fans of Arms will be thrilled to learn that Mario is getting a set of stretchy arms to call his own. These “1000-Fold Arms” give Mario the ability to “interact with the landscape” by peeling away at the game’s world to solve puzzles and reveal “unexpected surprises.” And speaking of puzzles, the new ring-based battle system will ask players to “maximize damage” by correctly lining up Mario against his opponents.
With Super Mario Bros. celebrating its 35th anniversary this year, we’ll likely hear a lot more about Mario throughout the year. It just won’t be at the E3 Expo.
