Highlights

  • The Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake fixed a missing dialogue issue regarding Goombella's Tattle ability in Chapter 4.
  • Fans appreciated the restoration of Goombella's dialogue on Doopliss's parrot, correcting a 20-year-old mistake from the original.
  • The remake made various changes, including updating scenes closer to the Japanese script and replacing slot machines with arcade cabinets.

The Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake restored a piece of dialogue that was missing from the original release. The Thousand-Year Door remake has been a huge hit on the Nintendo Switch, becoming one of the most lauded games on the system and one of the highest-rated games of the year. A lot of the praise is given to the amount of fine-tuning and fixing that Intelligent Systems and Nintendo did for this game, including updating the gameplay and fixing some problems of the GameCube original. One thing that was fixed was a piece of dialogue that was missing in the game when using Goombella.

In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, one of the partners that joins Mario at the start of his adventure is a college-aged student Goomba named Goombella. She provides Mario and the player additional statistics about an enemy in battle, thanks to her Tattle ability. Tattle can also be used to provide additional flavor text for any character or location the player visits. In the GameCube original, there was one spot where this ability didn't work as intended, with the dialogue being dummied out for an unknown reason. The remake restores this piece of dialogue.

A screenshot from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2024) showing Mario and Goombella.
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In the original Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the area where Goombella's Tattle didn't work was during Chapter 4, in Creepy Steeple. In the original game, if the player uses Tattle in the room, the message would say how there's no one around, except for the parrot. However, if the player asks Goombella to use Tattle on the parrot, she would simply repeat the dialogue about the room instead. Players knew of the unused message for the parrot itself because of fans snooping through the game's data. The remake restores this dialogue, allowing players to hear Goombella's thoughts on the parrot, as highlighted by GameXplain.

What Does Goombella Say About Doopliss's parrot?

In the remake, when Goombella uses her Tattle ability on Doopliss's parrot, she now says "That's Doopliss's parrot. Seems like he's been abandoned down here... Poor little guy..." referencing the chapter's events where Doopliss runs off after being defeated by Mario and his companions. Fans were appreciative at how the remake fixed this mistake after over twenty years.

There are a few other scenes in the Thousand-Year Door remake that also have been changed, either by correcting some mistakes made in the original English localization, or bringing the scenes closer to the Japanese script. Some elements have also been replaced outright, such as the slot machines in the Pianta Parlor being traded out for arcade cabinets due to simulated gambling laws being much stricter in 2024 compared to 2004.