Having spent a few hours with the Japanese version - already a chart-topper in the Far East - we've few doubts that it deserves the publicity. And with Paper Mario 2: The Thousand Year Door, favoured first-party Intelligent Systems is arguably working on the first 'highly anticipated' title of the bunch. Super Mario RPG, the original Square/Nintendo crossover, laid the foundations - but it was latter day titles like Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi that developed the concept into something indispensable. may have a handle on the serious RPG, but - ignoring green tights and Master Swords - over the past few years Nintendo's quiet little series of quirky Mario-led role-players has done more to excite the minds of its fans than anything on the same format.
