My Introduction: About a year ago, I bought a game called Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door. It changed my life. I had loved the first one for the Nintendo since I was five. Anyway, I saw this game come out and my first thoughts were, screw that, it will never beat the first one ever! I didn't buy it. It took me about 6 years to come to my senses and give this game a try. Now, I have very few regrets in my life but not playing this game when it came out was the biggest gaming mistake I ever made and one of my biggest regrets ever. This game was simply fantastic! I loved every minute of it! After I beat it, I looked at an in depth description of the story was simply speechless at how well written and deep this story was. I have played this game tons and this game and the First Paper Mario are my favorite games. I always wanted to write a story based on this game and then I heard of this website. That was all the motivation I needed. That's why I wrote this story. I have always wanted to give something back to the people who made this life changing game.
The next thing I noticed were that other people apparently had the same idea. There were probably about 5 or 6 other fan fictions that I read that were novelizations of the game. First, I appreciate those people writing about the game too but none of the stories quite did it for me. First things first, I am not talking about stories that involve the game but in a new way (such as the Paper Slash series which is great) I am talking about people who are telling the story of the game. These were all great writings but none of them captured the true power and emotions that I feel that this story has.
Here's is what I have done. I am doing a novelization of the story but I am telling it the way it needs to be told. I am looking at all of the characters from a much deeper and realistic point of view. I am telling the stories of the characters and putting in the emotions that they would have really been feeling. This story falls under the category of drama for a reason. It has all the adventure and action in the game but it also has tragedy and emotions in it that I believe the characters would have shown in their situations. Also, I rated this T but I feel I should warn you that this story takes the T rating to the limit and then some, containing some strong violence and brief strong language so please be advised. This story also contains strong angst on some occasions but it is brief. To sum it up, this is not a silly Mario fiction about the game, it is a realistic and deep story that is not always cheerful. Even though there is violence and language, I believe it fits and enhances the story in a positive manor. I just wanted to warn any young readers. And by the way, even though this story contains angst and tragedy, it is also an adventure story with strong friendship and many happy and lighthearted parts. I don't want to scare you off by making you think you will be depressed reading this because you won't. Most of it is fun to read and action oriented. However, not all of it is happy and lighthearted so be warned.
I have recently begun to receive more feedback on my story and I wanted to emphasise some things. I have had messages sent to me that stated that there is no god in the mushroom kingdom so why do I use phrases such as "Oh my god" and similar things. The reason is that this is written as if it were real life. There is religion in real life and while I will never go deeper into a religion other then a phrase such as "Oh my god," I don't see any harm with using a simple phrase like that. Also, due to popular request, from this point on I will be dividing my chapters into three or four sections to avoid confusion.
Some changes from the game to the story. Everything in the game is paper. I am telling the story in 3d, like everything is normal. As for the plot of the story, I always found novelizations that follow the thing that it is based on too closely to be boring. You know everything that is going to happen, who lives, who is victorious, everything. I have or course stuck with the basic plot of the game, otherwise, it wouldn't be a novelization. I have completely re imagined most of the situations to make this story exciting and unpredictable even for a person who has played the game 1000 times and can recite story backwards. I also made Mario be allowed to talk to make it more interesting. One of the things I can't stand is just reading the original dialogue from the game so I tried to avoid that wherever I can.
A last point I have to make is originality. The only thing in this story that isn't original is the base story, what you see in the game isn't original of course. That is why the story is based on the game. Every detail that was added that was not in the game is completely original. I stole nothing from the previous writers on this site. If something is similar, it is purely a coincidence. Everything from the side stories, to the added details, is completely from my imagination. THIS STORY IS NOT INSPIRED BY ANYONE ELSE AND NOTHING IS TAKEN FROM ANOTHER STORY. I cannot stress this point enough. However, I do not own the rights to any of the characters or the game. These belong to Intelligent Systems and Nintendo. Don't sue me please.
Also, if its not to much trouble, can you please leave a review? I like knowing what people think about my writing.
I would also like to thank all the people that have read my story and left encouraging reviews. It is really hard to keep writing if you are getting bad reviews so I thank everyone for not flaming my work and being nice from the bottom of my heart.
Well that just about all I have to say. Thank you for reading this. I am always working on it but due to the size of the chapters, I takes a while to write. I am forever in the debt of the creators of this game so I wrote this to do the game justice. So enjoy the story of Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door how it was meant to be told, with all the power and emotion that this incredible game deserves.