I just hope the next Paper Mario (which is gonna happen eventually whether this rumor is true or not) is much more like the first 3 games in terms of tone, humor, characters, story, etc. Say what you will about SPM
but it still had the heart and soul of a PM game, even if the gameplay was radically different.
One of the biggest problems with Sticker Star, beyond all the issues I have with the gameplay, was that it felt like another sterile Mario game, instead of it's own separate thing. Same world themes as NSMB (though I did love the papercraft look), generic enemy types, little to no real text or humor or story, heck I forget if Bowser even says anything in it. To go from having some of the best lines in the series to the regular old big bad who says pretty much nothing is crushing. It's just such a bland, nothing game. I could have tried to look past this stuff if the game itself was fun, but it just wasn't to me.
this topic has been beaten to death already... I just hope they don't repeat the same mistakes they made with Sticker Star. I'm honestly fine if they want to keep experimenting with the series (though I definitely wouldn't mind a return to the first 2 games' style), I just really want them to return to the quirky humor and stories and worlds of the older games above all else.