Dark Aspects of Paper Mario: Sticker Star | A Complete Analysis

The Dark Aspects of Paper Mario: Sticker Star analysis is here! Topics include Royal Stickers that grant its wearer power in exchange for their minds, the toxic game show Snifit or Whiffit, the eerie Enigmansion, and the mysterious unsolved code XD3R-B8HH-9ZR2-FL16.

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Music used (in order):

♫ Sticker Battle (Got Attacked Intro) - Sticker Star
♫ Spacetoneer - EarthBound
♫ Main Title - Paper Mario
♫ Sticker Battle - Sticker Star
♫ The Rampaging Din
♫ Bobby's Memories - The Origami King
♫ Intro Story - The Thousand Year Door
♫ Paper Mario Sticker Star
♫ The Sticker Fest
♫ Bowser Battle - TTYD
♫ Shooting Star Summit - PM
♫ CROWNED - Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe
♫ Sorrow on the Waves - SS
♫ Gooper Blooper Battle Boogie
♫ A City in the Stars - PM
♫ Vs. Gooper Blooper - Super Mario Sunshine
♫ Power of the Royal Sticker - SS
♫ Supreme Sparkling King, Bowser Battle
♫ Madam Merlar - PM
♫ Spectacular Finale - SS
♫ Wishes Come True
♫ Snifit or Whiffit!
♫ Outside the Haunted Enigmansion
♫ SMW Ghost House - Super Mario Maker 2
♫ Mansion (Luigi Humming, Low Health) - Luigi's Mansion
♫ Boo's Mansion Theme - PM
♫ The Toad's Mansion - SS
♫ A Thousand Miles Away
♫ Big Cheep Cheep Appears
♫ Maritime Battle - The Wind Waker
♫ Approach of the Giant Fish - SS
♫ Game Over - Donkey Kong Country 2
♫ Jungly Jungle - SS
♫ Tower of Murals, Drybake Stadium
♫ Origami Castle - TOK
♫ Detective Mario - SS
♫ Prisma Splash! - CS

Sources & further reading

Additional video clips:

⍟ Sticker Star footage by Nintendo Everything
   • Paper Mario Sticker Star 100% Walkthr...  
⍟ Sticker Star Gooper Blooper, Wiggler Diary, game over, and Thing sticker footage by packattack04082
   • Paper Mario Sticker Star Walkthrough  
⍟ Color Splash quicksand footage by Gaming Reinvented
   • Drowning in Quicksand in Paper Mario ...  
⍟ Sticker Star garbage heap footage by Mario Party Legacy
   • Paper Mario: Sticker Star Walkthrough...  
⍟ Paper Mario TTYD quiz footage by HowToDoVideoGames
   • Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door Su...  
⍟ The Obscurities of Animal Crossing by Hunter R.
   • The Obscurities of Animal Crossing  
⍟ Zelda 64 Triforce Temple by Hard4Games
   • Zelda 64 Triforce Temple  
⍟ Boundary Break: Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door by Shesez
   • Boundary Break: Paper Mario The Thous...  
⍟ Resident Evil Director's Cut - Dog Scare footage by Anton Semchenko
   • Resident Evil: Director's Cut - Dog S...  

Images:

⍟ Thumbnail sprites ripped by Dazz, Ploaj, fawfulthegreat64, DogToon64, and redblueyellow
https://www.spriters-resource.com/3ds...
⍟ Art used for the "spoiler warning" archived by Shokora
https://www.mariowiki.com/File:PMSS_-...
⍟ The "Thane Gaming" logo uses a connected font called “filaturestd” by JBFoundry.

Articles referenced:

⍟ Iwata Asks - Paper Mario: Sticker Star
https://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interv...

Sound effects:

⍟ EarthBound "Wow!" from intro uploaded by Starmen dot net
https://starmen.net/mother2/soundfx/
⍟ The Wind Waker Redead sound effect compiled by Noproblo, presented by HelpTheWretched
https://noproblo.dayjo.org/ZeldaSound...
⍟ Super Mario 64 voice clips & sounds by The Mushroom Kingom
https://themushroomkingdom.net/media/...
⍟ rubber duck small 2 by ermfilm
https://freesound.org/s/130011/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

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0:00 - Introduction
2:01 - The shattered comet
4:57 - C-R-O-W-N-E-D
9:31 - Character sacrifice
12:19 - A toxic gameshow
14:39 - Enigmansion
17:04 - Game overs
19:55 - Surprising "Things"
20:32 - XD3R-B8HH-9ZR2-FL16
23:17 - Creepy murals
24:11 - Resident Evil
24:43 - Wrapping up
26:08 - Credits
26:46 - End card

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