Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is coming back to Switch next year and while we’ve already seen some ratings pop up online, it’s now also been rated by the ESRB.
Rated ‘E’ for “Everyone” and contains “mild fantasy violence” and “mild suggestive themes” with “no interactive elements”. Here’s the description, which also states that there is “brief flirtatious dialogue” and “exaggerated proportions”:
“This is an adventure role-playing game in which players help Mario rescue Princess Peach from an alien group. As players travel through magical worlds, they interact with characters and engage in turn/puzzle-based combat against paper creatures. Players use various attacks (eg. boot, hammer blow, fireballs) against cartoon enemies that disappear into stars and coins. Several characters engage in brief flirtatious dialogue (e.g. “Aren’t you a fine specimen of a man”; “Maybe if I grabbed you and gave you some sugar”) and/or are designed with large breasts/exaggerated proportions.”
In comparison, the original ESRB GameCube rating of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door was also rated ‘E’ for “Everybody” and featured “mild cartoon violence” with “no interactive elements”. This latest rating of the Switch version follows ratings in Brazil and Korea in October.
There’s no set launch date for Thousand-Year Door on Switch, but hopefully this latest rating means it’ll arrive sooner rather than later in 2024. You can see more dates for upcoming Nintendo titles in our previous story.
