Sounds like the game will be open world.
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/07/paper_mario_the_origami_king_features_a_seamless_open_world_and_huge_maps
The more I see of this the more of a nope from me it is.
It just looks like the last few titles which didn't thrill me at all.
I really don't like the rotation rings battle thing. I'm sure it's perfectly fine, but I just don't like the idea at all.
I've never meshed with Paper Mario.
I've played 64, Super and Sticker Star, three very different iterations of the same thing and not one has appealed to me.
So far, this one doesn't have anything to it that makes me want to rush out and give the series another go. I looks more like Sticker...