<cite>Super Paper Mario</cite>: Behind The Funny

MTV's Stephen Totilo talks with Erik Peterson and Nate Bihldorff, the writers who made Super Paper Mario's English script laugh-out-loud hilarious.

I can't tell you how many games I've played that take themselves so seriously and yet have to come up with the most convoluted crap to explain this thing you have to do as a video game player and try to give it a real reason that you should be doing it, something that advances the plot. That is a really hard thing to do, especially if you specifically want somebody to go to these parts of a level and collect something and all of a sudden you have to contrive this plot point where the key is broken up into five pieces. This whole series isn't afraid of looking that thing in the face and say, 'Hey, this is a ridiculous thing we're making you do.'

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