Paper Mario: The Origami King's announcement this morning was a major surprise, but the trailer's darker tone might have been even more surprising than the game's reveal. When the trailer begins, Peach slowly comes on-screen, but as she departs from a darkened room behind her, it becomes increasingly obvious that something terrible has happened to the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom. The scene is made all the creepier as she asks Mario whether or not he will "crease" himself, in order to be reborn like her. It's a surprisingly dark moment for a series that tends to put a huge emphasis on humor, and Mario fans were clearly taken aback by it!
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Keep reading to find out what fans think of Princess Peach's startling transformation in Paper Mario: The Origami King!
Talk about an effective way to start the trailer!
Nintendo fans were definitely taken aback by it!
The games are only gonna get darker from here...
It's no Eternal Darkness, but it'll do.
That's a scary line for any game!
No one was expecting this from a Paper Mario game!
And it'll live with a lot of other folks, it seems!