The 2004 role-playing video game, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the GameCube, may be receiving a remastered version soon. As the second installment in the Paper Mario series and part of the larger Mario franchise, the game features Mario and Princess Peach searching for a mystic treasure with great fortune, only for Peach to be kidnapped by an alien group called the X-Nauts. Mario then embarks on a mission to find the treasure and rescue the princess.
Rumors of a potential remaster surfaced when a famiboards user known as PikminSnezkov shared that they had contacted three sources, likely employees at Intelligent Systems, via LinkedIn. According to PikminSnezkov, the sources indicated that they are indeed working on a remastered version of The Thousand-Year Door. Although the release date remains unconfirmed, it seems that the Paper Mario team might be focusing on this project after their work on The Origami King.
In a post on famiboards, PikminSnezkov wrote,
Good evening Fami, hope you all are having a brilliant day : )
I usually don’t do this, as I don’t like attention. And I hope even after this we will focus on the game, not me.
As some of you know, I do hobby journalism behind the scenes and research various things for fun. Some accurate Nintendo rumors that were reported by YouTubers and other sites in the past partially were based on my research. As I said, I don’t like attention and thus always asked everyone to keep me private, which I intend to continue remain private in those stories.
However, now I have something super excited that I’m aware of. Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door Remaster is finally happening and coming out soon!
I have been in touch with 3 sources with this. One of them redirected to me to the third source, who I hadn’t interacted before so it was just me cold messaging them on LinkedIn. Because this third source wouldn’t acknowledge the release date I had heard from the previous two sources, I’ll just leave it as “coming soon.”
I informed both @NintendoPrime and @NateDrake about this privately. There’s one more person I have informed, but they wish to remain anonymous.
I personally had always wished for TTYD remaster. I never played it on GCN so I’m over the moon excited to finally play it on Switch soon.
As these details are based on rumors and insider sources, fans of the Paper Mario series should take this information with a grain of caution until an official announcement is made.
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