Paper Mario: Sticker Star team cut mini-games due to a lack of time

Paper Mario: Sticker Star could have offered a series of mini-games in Bowser’s Castle. However, the team didn’t have enough time to implement the content.

Producer Kensuke Tanabe told ONM:

“In Bowser’s Castle, we were planning on having the player complete a number of different mini-games as they went along, but unfortunately we had to cut this because we didn’t have time. I’m sure these mini-games would have been very silly and fun, so that was a bit of a shame.”

Co-director Naohiko Aoyama added that the mini-games would have required “a lot of effort into making events to really show off their uniqueness.”

“If we had, then we would certainly have had to put a lot of effort into making events to really show off their uniqueness.”

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