Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Paper Mario: The Origami King

Paper Mario: The Origami King

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/March 9, 2021 by Wehwalt (talk) 16:32, 16 February 2021 (UTC)



Paper Mario: The Origami King is a cross-genre video game, developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo; it released exclusively for the Nintendo Switch console in July 2020. The story follows Mario, teaming up with the new ally Olivia, to prevent the Mushroom Kingdom from being transformed and folded entirely into origami. The land is designed to look entirely like paper with multiple open world areas allowing for exploration. Turn-based combat is organized into circular rings, which can be rotated to line up enemies to deal more damage. The producer, Kensuke Tanabe (pictured), assuming he could not satisfy every fan, opted for entirely new gameplay and concepts compared to previous games in the series. The game received generally positive reviews, being praised for its graphics, writing, and characters and critiqued for the lack of other role-playing game elements, such as experience points. Reception on gameplay, mainly the puzzle-style combat, was mixed.
 * Most recent similar article(s): December 20, 2020 (Oxenfree)
 * Main editors: Panini!
 * Promoted: January 21, 2021
 * Reasons for nomination: Not only my first TFA, but my first FA too. And, according to the WikiCup, has its own article in 35-39 other Wikis.
 * Support as nominator. P  anini 🥪 22:40, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Support Looks good. Homeostasis07 (talk/contributions) 02:16, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 11:26, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Support. DAP  💅 00:10, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Support.  Spy-cicle💥   Talk? 23:20, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose I'm gonna oppose because there's been a LOT of Mario on the front page since the series hit its 35th anniversary and many games hit their 30th year. If this runs there's potentially 4 Mario series articles in a 10 month period. That's a lot for one series, and it also means we might not have articles for the 40th and other anniversaries coming up. We should probably spread them out.

Harizotoh9 (talk) 16:18, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Super Mario All-Stars - September 13, 2020
 * Super Mario World - November 21, 2020
 * Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels - June 3, 2021 (Potential)
 * , Wehwalt was considering this to appear March 8th, meaning if this is to be official there's over a four-month gap between the most recent game on the front page. Also, reruns exist so we don't run out of these games to feature. P  anini 🥪 17:33, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
 * March 9, actually.--Wehwalt (talk) 02:06, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Sounds perfect for Mar10 - Mario Day. – The Grid  ( talk )  06:49, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Wish I could, but the date is taken with another anniversary date. P  anini 🥪 17:20, 15 February 2021 (UTC)