Highlights

  • The Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake is one of the highest-rated new game releases of the year.
  • The remake retains the core experience of the 2004 original while updating its visuals and making other changes.
  • The high scores make Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door the seventh highest-rated game of 2024 so far.

The reviews are in, making the Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake one of the highest-rated new game releases of the year so far. The Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake has been a long time coming. The original version of the beloved Mario RPG has been trapped on the Nintendo GameCube for two decades, and with prices for a secondhand copy soaring out of control, many have been looking forward to a way to play it on a modern console.

Rumors persisted that Nintendo was finally going to be pulling the trigger on a Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake, and the rumors were finally proven true. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door was confirmed last year as part of a Nintendo Direct presentation, creating quite a bit of buzz and fanfare in the process. The game is finally available to the masses, and luckily for those that have been patiently waiting Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door's return, it seems to have lived up to expectations.

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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake reviews have been positive enough to earn the RPG an impressive 89 rating on review aggregate site OpenCritic. This makes Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door the seventh highest-rated game of 2024 so far, discounting remasters and early access games. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door finds itself ahead of Solium Infernum, Timemelters, and Athenian Rhapsody, though it's currently beaten by Animal Well, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Tekken 8, 1000xRESIST, Balatro, and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, the latter of which stands as the highest-rated game of the year with a 93 overall rating.

Highest-Rated Games of 2024 So Far

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  1. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - 93
  2. Balatro - 91
  3. 1000xRESIST - 91
  4. Tekken 8 - 90
  5. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth - 90
  6. Animal Well - 89
  7. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - 89
  8. Solium Infernum - 88
  9. Timemelters - 88
  10. Athenian Rhapsody - 88

The reviews have praised the Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake for retaining the core experience of the 2004 original while making some important tweaks and updating the visuals to modern standards. Some critics felt that the Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake changes should have gone further to address some of the criticisms that were levied at the original release, but otherwise, it seems that the majority of those that have played it have come away incredibly impressed with the game, hence its 89 overall rating.

It's unlikely that Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door's overall review score will fluctuate much in either direction at this point, meaning it will likely stay at 89. It's possible that Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door will maintain its spot in the top 10 highest-rated games of 2024 by the time the year is over, but it's also low enough that it could potentially be knocked out.