Designing For | The Eternal Heart of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door -- Designing for Storytelling @DesigningFor | Uploaded May 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Designing For is a series which looks at one specific level, character, or idea in gaming and breaks down the central theme to that element to figure out what it's, well, designing for! In this episode, we break down Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and why it manages to stay resonant to a nearly untouchable degree to so many so many years down the road: an undying and bafflingly thorough devotion to the art of storytelling.

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Director/Writer/Voice Over/Footage: Tommy Eyler/Pyrrhickong (twitter.com/pyrrhickong)

Video Editing/Additional Direction: Lucasthe Enby - twitter.com/LucastheEnby

Intro Animation By: youtube.com/channel/UCb4-84eJw6K6Ij7EIsIBJpA

Intro Theme By: soundcloud.com/phil-thej/tracks

Greenscreen Goku Fortnite Dance: youtube.com/watch?v=OHC8NrnE80g

0:00 A Divisive Tale of Legacy
4:42 The History of Mario’s Story
7:54 Mario Minus the Mushroom Kingdom
11:37 A Story of Stories: Homage Through Chapters
14:49 The Stories of Party Members
16:17 The Legend of Flavio
20:01 The Story of Super Luigi
21:39 The Tremendous, Insignificant Stories of Rogueport
24:42 The Story of The Thousand-Year Door
28:32 The Heart of Mario’s Story