No, it's different than Paper Mario. It has TWO PEOPLE, and you use mario & luigi to solve problems. Like say: There's a barrel in the way of a path, and you cant get by. So, what you do is get one of the brothers to hit the other brother with a hammer, then the one taht got hit with the hammer shrinks, so he an go under teh barrel, then you make him big again and now he has lifted the barrel.