Wii U GamePad special features and support, including Off-TV Play! -Fun for gamers of any age. Originally released for mobile platforms, Paper Monsters has received a new coat of paint and several new features to make its console debut. The result is Paper Monsters Recut, a game that boasts a lot of charm and, a few problems aside, makes for a fun little adventure. The aesthetics make a large part of Paper Monsters Recut's initial appeal. In this world, everything is made of paper, from the cute little cardboard protagonist to every enemy and scenery. The lighting is great, adding depth to the beautiful (if a bit simple) environments. The game certainly has its own appealing style, which by itself is a great way to try and make an impression. As a stage-based 2D platformer with focus on exploration, the game plays pretty much how you'd think it would.
Our hero has to transverse five main worlds, one secret world and several bonus stages. Each level holds loads of grey buttons, which work like the coins in Super Mario Bros. Or the rings in Sonic the Hedgehog, along with three golden paperclips and one golden button. Finding everything is, in general, quite easy, even if sometimes the game tries to make things harder by adding twists to the level design. Another nice touch is how the main character can change shapes and costumes depending on the stage: he'll turn into a submarine, or a small spaceship, or even a laser-gun-wielding, rocket-powered astronaut, adding variety to the gameplay.
As a game that originated in mobile platforms, Paper Monsters Recut generally works quite well as an unassuming, budget console title. Sometimes it becomes plain that the developers weren't able to completely excise the mobile vibe from it, though, and this is seen especially in the soundtrack. The music has its heart on the right place, but gets annoyingly repetitive really fast. This is an endless runner where the player simply has to run as far as possible without dying.Even worse, there are problems in overall optimization and hit detection, meaning you'll sometimes fall through a perfectly solid platform, or experience severe frame rate drops. In addition to the regular platforming there are also underwater sections where the player takes controls of a submarine and flying levels where a helicopter is used.Īdditionally there is also a bonus game called Drag 'n Dash. For example there's a winter themed chapter which features yetis and falling icicles while the western levels have snakes and cacti. Each chapter consists of four levels and ends with a boss fight The locations have their own themes with different enemies.
The game is divided into four chapters each set in a different location. Each level also has three golden paper clips that the player can collect. For every fifty silver buttons a golden button is given. Silver buttons are most common and are worth points while golden buttons, which are a bit harder to find, can be used to buy different outfits for the hero. Bad guys are taken out by simply jumping on them, unless they have spikes on the back. The controls are as simple as can be expected with the player being able to move back and forth and jumping.
The game is very much a platformer in the traditional sense, sharing many similarities with the original Super Mario Bros games. Only one person can stop them, a little guy made of cardboard boxes. It was once a happy land but then one day Lord Papyrus and his legion of paper monsters showed up doing the stuff that the bad guys usually do. Paper Monsters is a platformer set in a world made of paper.
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