Stephanie and I finished Super Paper Mario over the weekend.  It was a pretty good game I guess, although it had quite a lot of reading.  Voice actors next time please?  Anyway, what I was going to mention here is something that’s pretty unique to the Paper Mario games (at least the last two, I don’t remember if this was the case with the first one).  After you beat the game, you are given the option to save, and then you can go back into the game and still do stuff, with the final boss defeated.  It’s not a “second quest” type of thing where you start the game over and play through a harder version.  And it’s not that you start over just before the boss, with the option of backtracking.  You’re actually in the game world, and the final boss is defeated, and the people are no more on the edge of doom.  In fact, some of the former bad guys can be seen around town, moping about how they messed up but they’re going to start over fresh and do things right this time around.  There is even a challenge that doesn’t open up until after beating the game.  Although really there’s not that much of a point then, I still think it’s kind of neat that you get a glimpse of the world restored to order that you can still interact with.