Decided to wait til Christmas for this. There are much better 3DS games coming out next year that I'd rather spend my money on.
Yea... I don't like how they systematically removed partners. They made the game for me. A Paper Mario game without parters seems very very lonely to me and weird. At least Super Paper Mario had a somewhat of a partner system. We also had Luigi, Peach, and Bowser...The first two were amazing. I played TTYD first, but the N64 one still holds up to this day. They're both brilliantly fun RPGs.
Super Paper Mario was okay, but like I said earlier, I'm still waiting for the next great Paper Mario RPG.