{"id":107588,"date":"2020-01-18T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/rumour_prolific_leaker_says_well_get_paper_mario_and_a_2d_metroid_this_year"},"modified":"2020-01-18T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T11:30:00","slug":"rumour-prolific-leaker-says-well-get-paper-mario-and-a-2d-metroid-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/18\/rumour-prolific-leaker-says-well-get-paper-mario-and-a-2d-metroid-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: Prolific Leaker Says We&#8217;ll Get Paper Mario And A 2D Metroid This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1f4c654cc7dde\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1f4c654cc7dde\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1f4c654cc7dde\/paper-mario-the-thousand-year-door.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1f4c654cc7dde\/paper-mario-the-thousand-year-door.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>There have been a number of Nintendo-related rumours flying about recently and now the &#8220;prolific&#8221; leaker <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/New_WabiSabi\">Sabi<\/a> \u2013 who has a respectable track record, we might add \u2013 is claiming there&#8217;ll be a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/paper_mario\">Paper Mario<\/a><\/strong> game released this year (presumably for Switch), that goes &#8220;back to how it was&#8221;, along with a 2D Metroid game seemingly &#8220;related&#8221; to the Game Boy Advance original, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gba\/metroid_fusion\">Metroid Fusion<\/a><\/strong>. Below was the exact information shared on Twitter:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Having looked into it for a bit, I find it reliable enough to complete back the mentions of Paper Mario and Metroid (not prime 4) for 2020. I\u2019ll tweet out the details I back based on talks I had.<\/span>\u2014 Sabi (@New_WabiSabi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/New_WabiSabi\/status\/1218362384642822144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Paper Mario going back to how it was, in 2020<\/span>\u2014 Sabi (@New_WabiSabi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/New_WabiSabi\/status\/1218363208618012672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 2D Metroid game does in fact seem to be related to Fusion, also sounds as though it\u2019s set for this year.<\/span>\u2014 Sabi (@New_WabiSabi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/New_WabiSabi\/status\/1218363344408629248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The person I know is legitimate mentioned it being a sequel I believe.<\/span>\u2014 Sabi (@New_WabiSabi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/New_WabiSabi\/status\/1218363768603676672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If this rumour does turn out to be something more, it would definitely good news for Nintendo fans. The Paper Mario series has struggled to live up to expectations since the 2004 GameCube release (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/paper_mario_the_thousand-year_door\">Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door<\/a><\/strong>) and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gba\/metroid_fusion\">Metroid Fusion<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 released in 2002 \u2013 is easily one of the best Metroid games of all time.<\/p>\n<p>As for the individual who posted the above tweets, they&#8217;ve got a strong track record and are previously known for leaking a number of major stories last year before E3. They even received a cease and desist from a lawyer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/nintendo_takes_legal_action_on_prolific_e3_leaker_ahead_of_tomorrows_direct\">representing<\/a> Nintendo, to prevent any further damage.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you make of this rumour, though? Would you like to see Paper Mario return to how it was? How about another adventure with Samus that&#8217;s tied to Metroid Fusion? As always, share your thoughts below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a number of Nintendo-related rumours flying about recently and now the &#8220;prolific&#8221; leaker Sabi \u2013 who has a respectable track record, we might add \u2013 is claiming there&#8217;ll be a Paper Mario game released this year (presumably for Switch), that goes &#8220;back to how it was&#8221;, along with a 2D Metroid game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}