Mario starts off in a large field of emptiness, but you will soon see the occasional "SOS" distress signal. Follow them to the bottom-right corner of the map to find several sparkling stars.

In a follow-up tweet, Piscatella clarified that the original Super Paper Mario is actually the second ... letting them leap across the entire map in a single bound ...

being the successor to Paper Mario which was on the Nintendo 64 (also re-released on the Wii's Virtual Console), and the predecessor to Super Paper Mario on the Nintendo Wii. Paper Mario TTYD game ...

Mario follows the map only to find that Peach has gone ... It builds on the basics laid by Super Mario RPG and Paper Mario, giving you more tools, enemy variety, and partner versatility.