Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is a video game for the GameCube, and a sequel to Paper Mario which was released three years prior to this game's release. In the game, you take the role of Mario in paper form. You'll meet new friends, and traverse through new worlds. Like all Mario RPGs, the game is also has more of a storyline than most Mario games, and can be quite funny.

Gameplay
The gameplay should be familiar to fans of the original game in the series. There arn't any major additions to the gameplay compared to the third one in the series (Super Paper Mario). During battle, Mario will have a few options - To attack the enemy by jumping on him, by smashing him with your hammer, to use special items or Crystal Shards, and others. The partners also have their own unique abilities such as Yoshi being able to eat the opponents, Goombella's ability to give you information on every enemy, and Vivian's ability to heavily guard Mario. You are only able to have one partner out on battle with Mario (you can switch them in battle though).

While out of battle, each partner also has special and unique abilities - Koops can go inside of his shell and shoot at far off items, Yoshi will allow Mario to run faster and jump farther while being riden, and Flurrie can blow a giant gust of air to reveal secret passageways.

After you finish a chapter, you are able to play as Princess Peach and then Bowser. First is the Princess', where you travel through the mother ship talking to TEC and sending messages to Mario. Bowser's is more of a platform based minigame where you go across Super Mario Bros. inspired levels as non other than Bowser himself.

Other games in the series

 * Paper Mario - Paper Mario is the first game in the series that was released on the Nintendo 64 three years prior to this game's release.
 * Super Paper Mario - Super Paper Mario is the third in the series that was released on the Wii three years after this game's release.