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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - DF Switch Review - Brilliant Visuals... At 30FPS

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Nintendo returns to its classic library once again to revitalise a brilliant, older game with vastly superior visuals. However, a GameCube original that ran at 60 frames per second only runs at 30fps on Switch. Tom Morgan stacks up the new version of the game up against the original - the visuals are obviously a massive improvement, but to what extent does Paper Mario *need* to be a 60fps game?

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0:12:17

1.8 GB

3840x2160, 59.94fps, 19.0mbps

AC3 2.0, 448kbps, 48000Hz

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0:12:17

1.1 GB

3840x2160, 59.94fps, 11.1mbps

AC3 2.0, 448kbps, 48000Hz

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