So, I really hurt my eyes trying to watch gameplay of Paper Jam in French version (most of the French translations sucks) and......ouch, some did hurt
But at the end of the video we saw new stuff!
Paper Mario seems to have another unique ability that wasn't mentioned until i realised it: he can defend. It's jsut what it sounds like, you press X and he will do the TTYD defend pose and take much less damage, what is very interesting is that this is coming from his gameplay in SS, but that gameplay part did came from TTYD.
Again, this is something interesting because they really almost never mention SS (maybe cause they know what people think of the game), but they reuse the mechanic that was....I guess fine on their own. Though, tbh honest with you, it's a smart idea to keep the defend mechanic because m&l again, it's more execution than strategy so allowing this mechanic makes Paper Mario.......I guess fit better.
Btw, i just thought of soemthing mind blowing, the jump where you have multiple copy......it's from SS, even the fact of him getting copied several times is from SS, more specifically this sticker:
This is big shiny clone jump, forget the big shiny, all it does is you have multiple jump because Paper Mario clones himself with 4 copies which does the jumps. The only difference in m&l is you make 6 copies, but the attack is essentially the same as the Paper Mario all do each one jump and they are relaying the attack one after another which is what happens in paper jam.
Now, again, this mechanic in SS: it really doesn't do much, but in paper jam? It's more an addition and a good thing for paper mario more than anything because it is exactly like a normal jump action command in SS which I will say it now, is much better than the TTYD or pm64 one as it has more button presses, I just wish the action command were as hard as TTYD because SS was a joke.
M&l however, they are always fine in terms of action command input so it would be better.
Also, we are exactly a week away from the release in JP, maybe someone could dump a decrypted rom for me so i can rip the data off, but we'll see