New Leak For Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Before 2024 Release

The Mario RPGs you love are back. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, according to rumours, will be released soon after Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the franchise’s fastest-selling title.

New Leak For Paper Mario

The ESRB age rating for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door suggests a release date near. We only know that the remaster will be released in 2024, but it may come sooner if it has an age rating. As expected, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is rated E (Everyone) for light fantasy violence and “suggestive themes“. Though the remaster has received age ratings before, this is significant because it allows the game to be marketed in one of its main markets, predicting a first-half 2024 release.

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Users noticed this and reassured fans that some explicit jokes were left in. The ESRB reports that certain characters engage in “brief flirtatious dialogue” with players, such as “Perhaps if I…grabbed you and gave you a little sugar”. Naughty.

Even more thrilling than a slew of characters hitting on Mario, the rating suggests the game can’t be too far from release if the ESRB has evaluated its material. Since nothing is confirmed, you may wish to plan for something in Spring 2024, or even earlier if we’re optimistic. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door debuted on GameCube in 2004. Nintendo could release it later in the year to celebrate the game’s 20th anniversary because it was published in Japan on July 22 and elsewhere in October.

Since Super Mario RPG just launched on Switch, this would offer the game extra breathing room. It appears the game is in decent condition. Being playable doesn’t mean Nintendo wants to drop a game. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was delayed a year for polishing. Before that, Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma said the game was “pretty much complete”. Though smaller than Tears of the Kingdom, we can expect the game to arrive in 2024, even if it’s not ready now. When? We’ll see. The ‘E‘ grade means “Everyone” and includes “mild fantasy violence” and “mild suggestive themes” with “no interactive elements”. 

It also mentions “brief flirtatious dialogue” and “exaggerated proportions”: ESRB rated Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door ‘E’ for “Everyone” for its “mild cartoon violence” and “no interactive elements” on the GameCube. The Switch’s latest rating follows October ratings in Brazil and Korea. This rating suggests that Thousand-Year Door will appear on the Switch in 2024. However, there’s no official date. See our previous page for additional Nintendo game dates.