YMMV / Book of Mario: Thousands of Doors

• Accidental Innuendo:
  • The phrase "Come on!" turns into "I came!" often. It's to the point that it's practically Goombell's catch phrase.
  • Many characters in Chapter 2 seem to be fond of BDSM practices.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • The whole thing, really. Nothing in the story makes any sort of sense, thanks to the script being butchered by Google Translate.
  • Miraculously downplayed in the prequel, as much as a Google Translated game can be, anyway. The game follows an improbably consistent narrative about how Browser is seemingly the Hero Antagonist rebelling against the Stellarvinden's reign, heavily supported by Mario carrying out several morally grey or outright villainous acts on his journey in areas under Browser's protection before revealing that he was Dead All Along and being used as a puppet by the Stellarvinden, culminating in his consumption of all the peaches, which instigated the shortage responsible for the war in Thousands of Doors.
• Cargo Ship: Characters being in love with objects is fairly common, with Mario and Peach being in love with Peach's fireplace as just one example.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Carbon is undoubtedly the most popular character in Thousands of Doors thanks to his hilarious dialogue, and his tendency to shatter the fourth wall.
  • Paul is a very minor character in 64 but is everyone's favorite in-universe and out, and has a surprise role in the finale.
• Even Better Sequel: Prequel, rather. While Thousands of Doors has tons of hilarious moments, 64 not only matches those but has a coherent, original story with insanely high stakes and drama by the end, resulting in it being even more liked than ToD.
• Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: Thanks to the nonsensical story of the patch, people like to try and make sense of the chaotic mess that Google Translate churned out.
• Fan Nickname: Some fans call Sir Snow "Sir John Snow", a reference to Jon Snow of Game of Thrones.
• Good Bad Translation: The whole point is to see how silly the translation can get.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Mario's countless diseases in Thousands of Doors despite showing no symptoms became even funnier in Fatguy703's Randomized Badge Bonanza TTYD stream, where badges were randomized and had to be equipped even if the effect was negative. By the midpoint of chapter 6 Mario lost the ability to hammer and the ability to jump, attacks deal way more damage to him than they should, and he can only walk at a snail's pace—like he was infected and dying of a degenerative disease.
  • In Book of Mario 64, a major plot point is that Mario was Brainwashed and Crazy at the start of the game by the Evil All Along Stellarvinden. Paper Mario: The Origami King, announced shortly after the hack's release, shows Princess Peach becomes Brainwashed and Crazy at the start of the game by King Olly.
  • One of Admiral Bob's many, many names includes Bobby. Paper Mario: The Origami King includes a Bob-Omb partner nicknamed Bobby.
  • In Thousands of Doors, Goombell's Blah ability is described as letting you "watch the war in HD." In September of 2023, it was announced that The Thousand-Year Door, which Thousands of Doors is a text mod of, would be getting a remake for the Switch, meaning all of the events can now be seen in HD.
• Hollywood Homely: Belda claims that Viviana resembles a horse at one point. She... really doesn't.
• Ho Yay:
  • Most of King K's dialogue in this version seems to have him flirting with Mario. Depending on how you interpret his dialogue from the end of Section 3, the two of them may even have had a child at some point during that section.
  • Mario receives kisses from several different (now apparently male) characters.
• Memetic Psychopath: Carbon wants to end all fathers, destroyed his home town, one of his attacks is called "Nuclear Noise" and he has a positive view on Big High Grodan, despite the fact he's the leader of the Iranian Nazi community.
• Narm Charm: The Translation Train Wreck^note Honesty Professor Caesar Reality calling enemies "objects that society has thrown away", Carbon being as narcissistic as he is troubled, Browser actually being an artificial clone and Mario being possessed by a Greater-Scope Villain makes both games a great modern Soap Opera.
• So Bad, It's Good: Entirely intentional.
• Spiritual Successor: Imagine if Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal were a Paper Mario game instead of a Pokémon game, and you have Book of Mario.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: It may be a fan-made patch for a Mario game, but thanks to Translate's poor algorithm, it unintentionally comes off as this, what with the Obligatory Swearing, themes of war, and even implied rape.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: We would only stretch on the surface with these lines who seem to come from the imaginations of illiterates from the whole political spectrum:
  • Many characters change gender depending on the sentence and nobody seems to be bothered by this.
  • Honesty Professor Caesar Reality's description of enemies as "objects that society has thrown away" may be a Marxist pamphlet about how society treats people as intellectuals or criminals depending on their social and cultural level before their race, especially if you consider he's a Goomba working with the heroes.
  • Goombell can show you the war in HD, lampshading how Mario's Blood Knight tendencies matter more than saving the world, and makes racist comments despite the fact she's a Goomba fighting alongside Mario.
  • Carbon's obsession for being hard and his desire to end all fathers can be interpretated as an internal conflict between injunctions to become a real man and other injunctions to give up this spirit by destroying patriarchy.
  • 1-TEC 20 abusing his position as the Princess of Peaches' captor to make sexual advances to her may be a reminder of how powerful people abuse their status to profit of women who want to start in life. She accuses him of being "a cop who takes care of bastards" because of it, reminding why these scandals take time to be revealed.
  • The "Unemployed Graduate" item who lives in a small block in Rogue Harbor Sanitary seems to criticize United States' college system which forces to take ridiculously high mortgages for no guaranteed results.
  • Don Piano is an Affably Evil mafia boss who loves grandchildren, but also a Mood-Swinger who's the leader of The European Union, despite the fact he only leads a small organization in a crappy port town. This one is on the verge between a souverainiste pamphlet and conspiracy theory.
  • The fact that Flavio Candy's Rich Boredom leads him to go on a crusade to bomb the United States has nothing to envy to conspiracy theorists neither, especially when he describes his enthusiasm as... ahem, "full of terrorism".