Seeing something something this good is a fake broke my poor lit'l heart...just like few years ago when there was screen shot of Valkyrie Profile Touhou style only to find in the end that all was April Fool's joke..:(
unicode said: Programming a game is easier than to draw the sprites. It takes only a few weeks to write all the codes.
That all depends on what you're good at. Sure, for you or me it would be easier to write the code, but I know a lot of people who could do the art a lot faster than they could ever program.
Cirno, of course being Mario. Keine being the Informer (Or Tattletale, works considering her knowledge and headbutt) Alice being the Explosion (I would thought she would be also to retrieve from far away distance). Orin being the Carrier. And I'm guessing Yuyuko be the one to make you invisible?
Man...I wanna play Paper Mario again now... But yes...this game. Take my money. ALL of it, dammit.