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#Super mario rpg mallow series
While Super Mario RPG is a joining together of the series and genre of its title, what makes it work so well is how it both pays homage and parody to both parties involved, and turns them on their heads. The fact that Super Mario RPG remains one of the most beloved Mario games should be a testament to just how successful the finished product was. Though a fan-favorite today, at the time many wondered if converting the Mario series into the narrative-heavy RPG genre could work. A joint effort between series’ publisher Nintendo and Final Fantasy developer Square-Enix (then Squaresoft), Super Mario RPG took the characters and world of Nintendo’s flagship franchise, and merged it with the RPG genre that Square was renowned for. But while Mario Kart might be the most famous of Mario’s detours, the most outstanding might just be the 1996 SNES classic, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, the title that sent Mario into most unfamiliar territory. Of the various “spinoff” Mario titles, Mario Kart gets the most widespread recognition, as it created the ‘kart racer’ sub-genre while simultaneously producing a series that rivals the core Mario titles in popularity. This design philosophy has not only allowed the core platformers of the Super Mario series to consistently reinvent themselves, but has also turned its titular plumber into gaming’s renaissance man, able to adapt to seemingly any genre Nintendo decides to cast him in. Since its inception in 1985, the Super Mario series has proven to be the avant garde of video games, prioritizing gameplay innovation and concepts unique to the video game medium over all else. *Review based on Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars release as part of the SNES Classic* I reviewed Super Mario RPG as my special 300th video game review. Why not add another character people have actually wanted and asked for for years?Īnyway, happy anniversary to Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars! A Legend indeed. You can’t stop adding those Fire Emblem swordsmen that no one asked for. The actual character as a playable fighter. We’ve only been asking for it for twenty years! I don’t mean an insulting, slap-to-the-face Mii costume. Seriously Nintendo, just put Geno in Super Smash Bros. But that hasn’t stopped fans (myself most assuredly included) from hoping and begging Nintendo and Square to bring back this beloved game either through a sequel or simply resurrecting its characters for new titles. And it’s basically the only Mario game to not have its characters or world elements carry over to subsequent games (save for a cameo or two). Sadly, despite being one of the most acclaimed and beloved Mario games of all time, it’s one of the very few that never received a direct sequel (it did inspire the wonderful Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi series, but none of them quite recaptured the same magic as the originator). If you ask me, it’s still the best damn RPG ever. Today, May 13th of 2020, marks the twenty-fourth anniversary of Super Mario RPG’s release in the US (it was released in Japan two months prior, in March of 1996, and wouldn’t be released in Europe until its 2008 release on the Wii’s Virtual Console, which at the time was a record for longest delay between region releases for a single title).Īs far as I’m concerned, Super Mario RPG is one of Nintendo’s finest achievements, and has steadily remained an all-time favorite of mine for these twenty-four years. I need to squeeze Super Mario World and Odyssey in there somehow…” “Behold, my Super Mario RPG poster! Fittingly next to the poster of my other favorite SNES game, DKC2, and one of my other favorite Mario games, Galaxy 2.
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