The (Previous) Unfortunate Fate of Super Mario RPG (Prior to the Remake)
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
- This video was made prior to the announcement of the Super Mario RPG remake on Switch, and thus represents the feelings of a fan prior to the remake's announcement, at the peak of frustration with the game's treatment.
Super Mario RPG was a game that changed the Mario series forever, giving the Mario universe some actual definition while also introducing a formula that makes turn-based RPGs fun. It's the reason why we got Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi to begin with.
Find out more in the first part of my retrospectives on the Mario RPGs as I take a look at Super Mario RPG.
0:00 Intro
3:09 Adding a Mario Flavor
13:49 Adding an RPG Flavor
22:49 A Trip on the Weird Side
33:51 A Fading Legend
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WOW IT HAPPENED FINALLY GEEZ I THOUGHT IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN. I'M SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!
Though just for the inevitable "aged poorly" comments: 37:38 was put in just in case lol
hehe
I haven't even seen the video, I just saw the thumbnail go by a few days ago, and I came back to do some dunking. Oh, well. I never thought this would happen, either. Happy day!
Lol, I actually saw this in the recommended while trawling through the reaction videos for the remake, and I was gonna be like, "not so unfortunate anymore, lol".
This aged like milk bro. & I came here to say that because of the thumbnail. Get nintendoed
I love how this video suddenly hit my recommendations after the announcement
The fact that it was barely a month after this was posted is cosmically hilarious
😂😂😂 too hilarious. Nintendo got jokes
XD
Quick - someone go make a similar video about Metroid Prime 4 so Nintendo can announce it a month after! 🤣🤣🤣
I would say this aged like milk, but I think milk has a longer shelf life than this video did.
Nintendo is well aware of how well received this game is. It was a continuous best seller on the Wii's virtual console as well as the Wii U's eshop. Additionally Geno was one of the top 10 most requested characters since Super Smash Bros Brawl. Which ultimately lead to the inclusion of a Geno mii costume.
Fun story: my mom was not a fan of RPGs, but she loved SMRPG so much that when my brother took his SNES to college with him, my mom went out and bought her own console along with this game just because she wanted to replay it.
That's actually a really fun story. Thanks for sharing.
Wholesome ☺️
Legit something I would do.
This was the first RPG I ever tried and I was so baffled by the game play that I thought RPG stood for “really poor game.” Legit. Lol
As a kid I loved platformers and didn't like turn based combat games, but didn't know what an RPG was. I got SMRPG expecting a SMW sequel, found it was definitely not that but still had a lot of fun with it
WHO'S IRRELEVANT NOW
DuoStuff: The Unfortunate Fate of Super Mario RPG
Super Mario RPG: You do not decide my Fate!
*Gets a Remake to prove a point.*
Part of why Super Mario RPG has been forgotten (you know, in addition to hardly ever being re-released), is that it came out in 96, same year as the N64. So, we have an RPG with a special chip that makes the cartridge expensive on a console that Nintendo isn't focusing on anymore. If this came out in 94/95, it would've been way more popular.
Yeah, that certainly didn't help matter. It was such a late-console release that many might've skipped it. (I just didn't feel the need to bring it up as The Geek Critique discussed that in his video.)
I’m pretty sure it was the same price as other SNES cartridges at the time.
It was not even released in Europe, so we didn’t get the opportunity to love it
I know this is not technically practical at all, but I wonder if it would have done better ported as an early n64 title
And not to mention that Final Fantasy VII came out the year after, and I think Square was focusing more on that game's success and critical acclaim
Bro! BRO!
SMRPG is no longer irrelevant! Nintendo just announced a full blown remake of SMRPG!!
We are so back.
There was an interview last year with Chihiro Fujioka, one of the co-directors for the original game, and he had expressed how, even after all these years, he still wants to do a sequel to this lost gem, before retiring.
And while it may certainly seem like unrealistic wishful thinking, I don't think it's entirely out of the realm of possibility. There have been instances of throwing longtime fans a bone lately.
-Mario Party not faring super well, after a formula change? Superstars went back to the basics.
-Mario Strikers not getting any kind of attention, within a decade and a half? Got a proper third installment, just last year.
-Mario games not thinking outside the typical norm for characters to feature in their rosters? We got Baby Wario, who had been left dormant since his debut, in Dr. Mario World, Poochy in Mario Kart Tour, and even guys like Foreman Spike and Chunky Kong in the recent movie.
Hell, even when looking outside of Mario, Metroid Prime managed to get a remaster, after years of it just sounding like rumors and fake buzz. So again, nothing should be entirely dismissed as impossible, at this point. Unlikely, sure, but never impossible.
I don't think it's impossible, but it just feels like Nintendo and Square won't bother.
And if we're getting remakes, while I'd love a SMRPG remake, I'd *really* like to see a Thousand Year Door Remake.
@@DuoStuff
Yeah, that would certainly be a nice surprise to see.
In terms of how I became familiar with this game, I hadn't played it for the longest time, but I knew of the push to try to get Geno into Smash, and then when his costume came back in Sephiroth's showcase, his fan base got a lot of mocking and scorn thrown at them, and I just felt awful for them that night.
I've always been super sympathetic for underdogs, so the next day, my sister and I had gone to this retro game store, to try and get some old consoles looked at, and I found a used copy of the game. I took it home, played through it, and I had an absolute blast with it.
Yeah that's the thing: Smash fans were so unnecessarily toxic about that situation, but I don't think a lot of them realize that there's a reason why people wanted him so desperately. Not just because the game itself is remarkably good, but because for a lot of people, this was *their* first major game they really cared about, much the same way TTYD was for me.
I really hope Geno does get in one day too, even if I highly doubt that will ever happen.
@@DuoStuff Honestly I'd kinda prefer if Smithy got in instead of Geno, but that's mostly bc we don't have that much playable villain rep in Smash Bros. Heck, we don't even have a playable *Eggman,* and you'd think that'd be the obvious choice for a playable Smash villain...
I like Smithy and all, but I just feel like it'd mean more if they chose Geno, especially because he's been requested for over a decade at this point. But I also wouldn't say no to both Geno and Smithy. lol
When you were talking about Smithy's world full of soulless clones, I thought you were going to put up a picture of generic toad from Sticker Star or Color Splash.
Lol. I just wanted to make the video dramatic, even if that would've been really funny in its own right.
By that logic smithy actually won in the end
It's also notable that the mass produced unfinished/unpainted "Machine Made" bosses are weaker than the original bosses.
Nintendo saw this and really was "ow hell no"
I ran a super mario rpg fansite (super mario rpg'ers paradise) in the 90s. It's how I learned how to write html, because at the time, there was no editing software. It's sad to me that a game that I loved so much during my teenage years would be so utterly forgotten now. The fan community back then was huge, and very active - in an era where few people were on the internet my site got tens of thousands of visitors to it. Now you can't even buy it on the Switch. Truly a sad end to one of the best games ever made.
I haven’t played it since my Wii U died a few years ago.
I think it's interesting how the current state of awareness around Mario RPG has kind of skewed younger gamers' perception of what that period of time was like. I see some comments here that suggest the game might have needed help with sales or exposure and I think you and I can agree that was faaar from the case. I for one remember our Blockbusters having a whole shelf dedicated to just Mario RPG copies that were actively being rented out for weeks. At the time we felt more than certain that a Mario RPG sequel would be around the corner, or at least that we would see some of its newly introduced characters in something again. The course of events was a surprise to literally everybody.
I think it's even more interesting when you contrast Mario RPG's history with something like the Fire Emblem series today, a series that was Japan-locked for years and overshadowed by games like Shining Force that are completely off the map today. It's almost like a coinflip of reality. I bet the younger Golden Sun fans who considered Mario RPG obscure during their time now realize what this feels like, to see a great game you love fall into the shadows through no fault of its own.
I’m pretty sure I learned how to time super jumps from that site, thank you for your service
Did you have like jpegs up from the game? That site sounds really familiar and I was obsessed with the game for a while so I wouldn't be surprised if I was familiar with it
Wow thats crazy, i remember this website fondly
Coming back to this after the remake was announced.
The VERY first thing I thought about after the trailer was this video
Im SO SO *SO* happy they remembered!!!!
I appreciate you tweaking the title and thumbnail in an effort to lessen the amount of people rubbing it in your face that the game is relevant again thanks to the upcoming remake. =P
"Irrelevant" yet the Super Mario RPG remake was just announced. 😂😂😂
You really went the whole hog on making sure people knew this was before the remake was announced 💀
I legit have to because otherwise people will just assume this was after. Lol
And just like that were back guys!
Ladies and gentlemen I've come bearing good news; They are finally remastering the game.
Super Mario RPG is getting a remake spread the good news
"was" hah awesome right. We all hyped.
I guess this video is now ...........
Irrelevant.
Jokes aside, I hope at least some who came here just to crack a comment actually watched the video. Very well done and edited retrospective from an obviously-passionate fan! Hopefully with the remake, it'll bring plenty of new fans to see why it's considered an "underplayed cult classic".
The whole thing about Culex was that he was a 2D character who couldn't inhabit the 3D world. If you look at the japanese translation of the dialog, it explains it better.
I love the updated thumbnail 🤣 I’m here after seeing the tweet about it
Yeah, figured it'd be a funny way to keep the original vibe while indicating that the messaging behind it is a bit outdated now, lol
Super Mario RPG is undoubtedly my favorite RPG OAT. I am not a fan of many RPGs and I generally can’t stand the format, but Super Mario RPG is so stand out for it’s genre that it is able to consistently make my top 5 games list. There is something special about this game and I know we will have our time eventually, I just don’t want to have to wait till I’m 40. We will get our day.
It really does seem to hit a lot of people like that. It's certainly not my favorite, as it was Thousand Year Door that really hit me, but undoubtedly Super Mario RPG is fantastic. The fact that I could play it in 2010 for the first time, despite having played its successors and despite not even knowing what a "Super Nintendo" was, and still fall in love with it says a lot about how much this game nailed.
Looks like you won't have to wait much longer!
Super mario rpg is def a game i can recommend to people who arent traditionally fans. Due mainly to the battle system being more interactive. Also mario.
Same with chrono trigger. The way it uses ATB and enemy encounters being identical to this game it feels so seemless that you barely notice. Also the double and triple techs are just super visually rewarding.
@@DuoStuff Super Mario RPG getting a 3D Remake... not only will that give people a new interest in the game, but we could use those in-game models for fan animations. Take that FP Flower for example, that one resembled a lot like the Classic Fire Flower of the 80s, people might use that for SMBSS Mario (recreated nicely by JCThornton) to transform into Fire Mario. We might also get 3D models of specific items that were original looking, but couldn't be turned into a sprite... like the Kerokero Cola item.
This aged like milk. Nintendo just announced a Super Mario RPG remake.
For the sake of accuracy, you should refer to the company as Squaresoft, as they were not merged with Enix yet when they helped develop Mario RPG. Plus, Squaresoft and SquareEnix are noticeably different companies regarding quality and feel.
I played this game when it came out and was blown away! It was my first rpg and is one of the few games from my childhood that I still play today with my own kids!
Mastering the 100 jumps…took almost a decade!
Oooh you introduced it to your kids? Nice!
Sure did! I can’t say I did my job as dad unless I show them what fun really is. Ha!
When I have kids, I will do the same. Working SNES and cartridge, ready at hand. :D
Very nice!
DuoStuff: Makes video about the sad fate of Super Mario RPG
Nintendo: Imma end this mans RUclips career
Already aged like milk.
This video aged like milk for the greater good
I hope they keep the "???" In the remake.
It may just be a dumb hope,but... more details on it?
This video is only a month old, and its aged super poorly. lol
I was 12 when this game was released, summer 1996. A close friend of mine’s sister worked in the games department at a big box, so she got us this one not fully knowing what it was (to be fair, neither did we). With no internet at either of our homes until the following summer, we wrote down notes of everything, and were obsessed with Croco for some reason, lol. Got through the Bowyer fight, wrote down Geno’s name ❤️🎵⁉️and some other cool mechanics in the game. I try to revisit it in some way at least once a year.
Love the shoutout too dude. This game will go down in history for us both. I'm glad I played it and meeting such a cool dude!
It's an important game to me for many reasons, but our friendship is definitely the biggest one.
Well well well
37:41 random commenters incoming
This video aged like shit and thats a good thing
Unreal that it's been announced!
Just coming back to this. Loved this video but it looks like we just got a remake on the switch. Woooo!! 🎉🎉🎉❤❤
The remake is gonna be so much fun! Been hoping for a sequel ever since RPG came out in 96!
IT HAPPENED 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
You know one thing (among others) that I really appreciated about this game coming back to it is how short and sweet the towns and dungeons are, it never feels like you spend too long in one place and they pack them with just the right amount of things to do that I don't get that "There should've been more" feeling. Also, considering when this game was made, it had a lot of QoL additions to it that you really wouldn't start recently seeing in RPG's until more recently like making it so you could just go anywhere from the map without having to actually backtrack through an area to go back to older dungeons and towns for example or how dying doesn't make you load your last save, you still keep your levels and items you got and instead you just get sent back to the last save block you were at.
To be honest, if this game were to ever be remade the only things i'd actually want out of it are updated sprites (to make reading enemy attacks easier) and the ability to swap Mario out of the party cause in my eyes it's already a near perfect game.
I do appreciate the fast pace of everything, even if sometimes I do think I'd like more time spent on actual character interactions, as there aren't as many as I'd like to flesh out the cast as a whole.
Hilarious cuz the remake is still at the end of the switch’s life cycle too
Honestly they totally should’ve had Toad as a full playable party member. Like it would’ve been so cool!
Toad huh? Hmm.... Not sure if I really vibe with it, but I'm also not really a Toad fan soooooo..... XD
@@DuoStuff it would be so awesome
Speaking of that, there IS coding for a 6th Party Member in Super Mario RPG but it's quite incomplete. (Luigi maybe?)
Talking about Unutilized Characters, I have a thought. Instead of recieving the Black Belt & Dojo for bearing Jynx, why not consider a Secret Boss Fight with Baby Bowser? If You beat Him, He joins the Team!
@@CesarTorres61296 there is?!
I'd never heard this irrelevency you've talked about, though I completely understand why it might exist. To be honest, I never really got into either Paper Mario or M&L series. But when I first played Mario RPG around 2 years ago (on emulator, since square doesn't deserve my money), I fell in love with it. It's probably my favorite RPG right now.
I mean, if you did manage to enjoy Mario RPG, then I think you might end up enjoying Paper Mario if you gave it another shot.
@@DuoStuff I've played the original on emulator, but wasn't too impressed by it. I also own a 3ds, with sticker star on it, so for a while that was my only exposure to the franchise (I'm so sorry). I also saw some playthroughs of both thousand year door and SPM, of which I think I would enjoy the latter far more.
Thousand Year Door and Super are the far more impressive ones. I love 64 for what it is, but it's definitely simpler than the latter two entries.
You can't even give Square your money for the game even if you wanted to since it is currently unavailable for purchase. Especially since the Wii and Wii U shops are dead.
@@DuoStuff I arguably think I prefer the N64 version more than TTYD and Super. The music is better, and I think some of the “simpler” things if anything make the game less broken compared to TTYD.
This aged extremely poorly
Funny, as far as my memory is concerned, Super Mario RPG is probably the first full on let's play video i watched on youtube, it was the first series a Mexican youtuber called PatronL made, his relaxing voice will forever be embedded into this game in my head for that reason.
I first encountered the game on RUclips, specifically because of the video Rawest Forest.
@@DuoStuffsame. But the guy I first watched play it was Chuggaaconroy.
@GameTower brooo yo tambien lo vi con patronL
@@awesomeocelot7475same
nuh uh
The meme. XD
Wow. This didn't age well.
Jack Black's Bowser definitely was pretty close to the Bowser on this timeless game! Great movie! And this is one of the best games on the SNES ie, all time!
Yeah, the movie Bowser was building off of the mainline/RPG Bowser which got its start *in* Super Mario RPG. Legit the character would not be the same nowadays if it weren't for this game.
I've never played Mario RPG myself, but it's always intrigued me. I always love finding videos on older more obscure games with a passionate fanbase like this one.
Good stuff as always 👍
Glad you enjoyed the video!
Maybe you should go play it.
You are missing out. Mario RPG is one of my favorite games of all time
I am going to agree with them: Super Mario RPG is definitely worth checking out if you get the chance.
You will love it. There's so much love and care put into the world and it has battle mechanics that make turn based fun. A new game called Sea of Stars takes inspiration from SMRPG and Chrono Trigger. Highly recommend playing the demo if you want a modern take on retro mechanics
Part of the reason for it's obscurity is because they flat out just never released it in Europe. Okay, so it was _eventually_ available on the Virtual Console, but that was a decade or so after the fact. Nowadays, you need to have some older system or a mini-SNES... (which might also count as an older system?) to play it (or a perfectly cromulent emulator).
Europe got screwed in general when it came to 16-bit era JRPGs. They didn't get Final Fantasy 4, 6, or Chrono Trigger until the Playstation rereleases either.
@@megavolt67 You mean "II" and "III" on the SNES... which looked suspiciously like the Japanese "IV" and "VI" by some miraculous twist of fate. /s
It is really unfortunate that Nintendo just flat out decided Europe wouldn't care about the game. It's like... Why wouldn't they want another Mario game?
@@DuoStuff Same reason they cancelled Starfox 2, it was simply too close to the release of the "Ultra 64" (as it was known before launch). The European release of SNES games would usually be anywhere from 3 months to a full year later (probably the later considering this game was dialogue heavy), and the N64 came out only 4 months after the American release of SMRPG. So, while I understand the whole "not wanting to compete with yourself" thing; they probably _should_ have released it in 1997 after Mario 64 and before Zelda 64 when there was a huge gap that needed filling.
lmao
teehee funny
Ah, Mario RPG, this game has a really special place in my heart. This game was one of the first games I ever played when I was a child and the first RPG I ever played and the one game that made me learn english (my main language is spanish).
I actually played kinda recently again (two year ago I think) and yeah, it's kinda simplistic at times and has some issues (like a few mistranslations) but I'd say it aged really well and it's still really fun to play.
Yeah, unlike several RPGs from its era, Super Mario RPG is consistently fun to play the whole way through. It's basic in a lot of respects, but fun nonetheless.
There are some neat rom hacks that increase the difficulty and add some depth to the mechanics iirc.
First time playing SMRPG was Browser Emulation on my Middle School Chromebook at a glorious 14 frames per year and no audio- replayed it like 3 times that year, and its absolutley one of my favorite games still. Been thinking about replaying it as of late and this videos resold me on it, especially with how hungry I am for any SMRPG-Related video. Good stuff!!
First: wow, that had to be a hard way to play it lol. I don't think I would've enjoyed it as much like that.
Second: Glad you enjoyed the video!
lol my chromebook snes game was Super Metroid, unfortunately i never finished it (my tab eventually crashed)
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Its reaaaal
The artstyle combined with the music make this game so unique, it's a very specific and even bittersweet vibe. Love the game to death
It came out during a very specific era, and couldn't have looked like this before or afterwards. Kinda neat.
@@DuoStuff Gotta love the mid 90s
As someone who has been watching you since looking for some dumb death note theories all the way back in 2017/18, watching you slowly grow and improve over the years to become a mini Scott the Woz has been one of my favorite 3am past times for the past 5 years
Well I'm glad to hear you enjoy my content that much. Though IDK if I'm exactly "Scott the Woz," as our writing styles are super different.
Nintendo: And I took that personally
Only halfway through and already my fav video I've seen this week, much love, Duo!
Glad to hear it! I tried my best to make the best video I could out of the subject. I'm very happy with how it turned out.
lol, said the time traveler, lmao
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Hi I'm from the future and I have some news.
Is this the real life equivalent to getting ratioed on Twitter?
Nintendo seeing this: well that sucks. Anyway let's do that again!
Bro two months after this video it came out on switch remastered hah
I wouldn’t say it’s not talked about completely. Back in 2008-2012 when I was a kid on the internet I saw this game all over the place and ppl would go as far to say it’s the best game of all time. I bought it on the Wii virtual console and played it and loved it back then. (It’s defiantly less talked about today tho). Imo a REAL forgotten Mario RPG game is Partners in Time on the DS. I never hear people talk about that one.
So I guess ti is time to eat those words huh?
I never knew it wasn't that popular. THIS GAME WAS MY CHILDHOOD!! BEST GAME EVER!!! This made me buy a switch.
I only found your channel today, but I’m already a huge fan. Great retrospective, and keep up the good work!
The remake news feels like a bolt from the blue. I don't think any of us were expecting it, I never heard any remake rumors, and once it was announced the amount of positive feedback was overwhelming. A lot of people are happy about the remake and that's really fun to see.
When I first heard of this game I was upset by the idea of its existence because I have never been a fan of RPGs. Then I played it and totally changed my mind. I still think RPGs are too long and complex, but this game had enough action and pace to make me happy.
Man I love the weirdness of the Mario RPGs. I just wish that weirdness hadn't died.
Yeah, I miss when these games used to be crazy ambitious and strange.
@@DuoStuff The GameCube era was so good man...it's the reason I'm making videos on Chibi-Robo in the first place
I miss it honestly. Made a couple videos about it (DDR Mario Mix and Luigi's Mansion), but there was just a unique weirdness present in everything Nintendo did, from the major to the obscure.
@@Danominator creatively speaking, I feel like nintendo hit a peak with the GCN/GBA/early DS era. They were utilising most of thier ips and were willing to push a variety of interesting games (pikmin, eternal darkness, baten kaitos, kuru kuru kuririn, chibi robo, Doshin, geist, hotel dusk, another code, starfy, magical vacation, golden sun). Not to mention it was Mario spinoffs in thier prime which completely blow the modern titles out of the water
@@Mal-go5dl Oh absolutely. There are some absolutely RIDICULOUS games from this era. Most of them end up being super charming and creative though.
I LOVE THE EDITED TITLE AND THUMBNAIL HAHAHAH
I remember buying Super Mario RPG on launch, and I was very hyped about it as a fan of both the SNES Final Fantasy series and the Mario games. One thing I think you forgot to mention is that the SNES Classic included it in its library, and I feel like that was a sign it was never really forgotten.
My 6 year old daughter is a huge Peach fan. The other day she was asking me about games where Peach is playable and I mentioned Super Mario RPG. I didn't mention that she would need to put in a few hours to unlock her. I dusted off the SNES and she immediately got hooked. She had never played an RPG before, so hopefully this can be a gateway into the genre as it was for me back in 1996.
How does she like Peach in that game? I first played it around her age and had no idea how much I needed a recalcitrant princess role model in my life.
did you tell her about super princess peach?
Posts that did not age well.
Haven't finished watching the video yet, in fact I only just finished the intro, but GOD, THANK YOU, I have watched alot of Mario RPG retrospectives but I've always wanted someone to used the actual intro of the game where the logo appears, as the intro for the video and this is the first time I see someone do it and it was SO PERFECT.
It is a cool way to introduce the game. Fits the theme of the game, and the thesis of the video really well. (That being the interlocking Mario and RPG elements and how they contrast and play off each other.)
This was such a well put together video! Super Mario RPG, along with Super Mario World, and The Thousand Year Door door were honestly the main Mario games that I had played while going through Elementary and Middle school. Out of all the RPGs, and other games out there that I have played. I can say without a doubt in my mind, Super Mario RPG is on the list of my top 10 favorite games to have ever played. With how much feeling, and the amount of detail that you have put into each section of this video is amazing! Thank you for taking the time to make such a great video! Thank you for helping me go down memory lane, and remembering the most joyous moments I had during my childhood!
The fact that *Square* and *Nintendo* basically put their past issues behind them and were willing to work with each other again as of recent years, TO ME, is the biggest resolve as far as what once was a huge road block in creating an official Super Mario RPG 2 (or remake). Even if unlikely, I still have high hopes they’ll make a true successor to the original, and if we’re lucky… maybe even in the style/graphics of Octopath’s HD2D :-) wishful thinking I’m sure… but who knows 🤷♂️
I think your wish has been granted essentially.
I would have been so happy to see them go with HD2D but I’m thrilled we are getting a remake at all!
Super Mario rpg really is a fun and charming game. It has this really unique feel to it that just makes you love it. It has some nice original characters, some funky music, beautiful graphics, and a story that felt like a Mario game
Though the original title didn't age well, I actually really enjoy this look back at this classic. Nice video!
This has been sitting in my recommended videos since before the nintendo direct lol. good video! It's one of my favorite games of all time, I replay it every year, and I'm really happy a new generation of people is getting introduced to it!
man this didn't age well. lol square saw this and was like "hold me beer"
Is it weird that I find Mario's RPGs more interesting than his main games? Like, don't get me wrong, I adore the mainline Mario games. But there's just something about the RPGs... The good ones at least, that makes it so interesting. I think it might be the whole thing about putting Mario in really weird and interesting scenarios, giving us a perspective of the Mushroom Kingdom that we never had. And it all wouldn't be real if not for this amazing game.
I am so glad they announced the remake. This is truly one of the most classic RPGs out there in my opinion, I am glad that I'll get to experience this classic once again!
The lack of RPGs being popular all comes back to Dragon Quest being released too late in the life span of the NES. But I guess that the first western RPG only being available in Japan is pretty telling.
1) In monstro town there are four stat-boosting accessories gained by doing challenges.
a) The ghost medal. This is by far the easiest one to get. All you have to do is sleep in the room with the bed with the note by the Three Musty Fears on the mushroom lamp. They will whisper to mario in his sleep that they want to play Find the Flag. Their flags are invisible but they're in the same place in every cartridge and playthrough. One is behind the flower sign at the entrance to rrose town. One is right next to mario's ned. And one is at the finish line at yoshi's island. Sleep in the bed again once you've found them and they'll give you the medal.
b) The jinx belt. Defeat the martial artist on the second floor a total of three times to get this.
c) The quartz charm. There's a method to defeating culex as described above. Take out his crystals first. There are four of them and they each have one elemental weakness. Fire, thunder, Ice, and Jump. Jump is an element in the game.
d) The super jacket. The last one may be the hardest to get depending on your point of view. Mario's super jump ability allows a theoretically limitless number of consecutive jumps as long as your timing is right. One of the monsters sitting around a table in the same room as the dancing starfish will tell the exact number of your personal record of consecutive jumps. If you make it to 100 you will get the super jacket. Perhaps even harder than timing 100 jumps just right is trying to keep track of how many you've done in your head.
2) The "starfish that humps you" is actually dancing to the last eight notes of toadofsky's symphony at tadpole pond. The first two are as follows: behind frogfucius after you unlock rose town, and the singing miners in the moleville mines near where you blew up the wall. As you complete the melody you'll receive membership cards to the tadpole pond juice bar that allow you to buy more powerful elixirs.
3) Like many JRPGs, this game has a casino. Talk to knife guy at booster's palace and win his game ten times. You don't have to win consecutively but he does deduct one point each time you lose. The game involves keeping track of which hand the red ball stops in when he rapidly juggles it. He will give you the Bright Card which grants access to the casino. The casino location is as follws. Go down one of the pipes in bean valley where you fight smilax. The pipe you're looking for is full of enemies as well as a golden chain chomp. Defeat the chain chomp and Jump three times where the chain chomp once stood. A platform will appear opening the way to the cadino. There are three games you can play at the casino: blackjack, slot machine, and grate guy's game. Grate guy's game involved looking either right or left and you win by looking the opposite direction he raises his hand. Unlike knife guy, his game is pure chance so doesn't deduct losses. If you win 100 times you will receive the Star Egg which deals exactly 100 damage to all enemies and is infinitely reusable.
4) You can get Yoshi's Cookies on yoshi's island. This is an item that summons yoshi to eat an enemy and then lay an egg containing an item. You can get them three at a time by talking to one of the yoshis or you can get more by betting on the yoshi races. You can use the yoshi cookie on the Amoeba enemy found at smithy's realm to get as many max mushrooms as you wsnt.
5) The game has a premium currency called frog coins which is used to buy item with unique effects at a couple shops in the game such as Earlier Times, which allows you to starta battle over. Frog coins found while adventuring don't regenerate but you can also get them through mimigames and converting regular coins. Late in the game in bowser's castle there's a room where croco will sell you items and magikoopa will conjure a treasure chest containing an limitless amount of coins. However, you can't keep coming back for infinite coins because you can't enter browser's castle through the back entrance, so you''ll have to go through the entire castle again.
6) If I remember correctly, there are only about three places where you can get with free XP with a super star. For obvious reasons they don't regenerate for the rest of the game.
7) Even though his physical design isn't any particular character that appears in the final fantasy series, it's still likely that designers intended culex to be from the realm of final fantasy since the boss battle music from final fantasy IV plays when you fight him.
8) Some of these details may be inaccurate as it's been a long time since I played the game. While I was trying to fact check this lengthy comment I discovered that someone actually made a mod called Super Mario RPG Armageddon, which contains more final fantasy bosses, pokemon, and boss rushes.
I feel like Jevil from Deltarune was inspired a bit by Culex.
almost nobody knows of him, and those that do wish they hadn't
Yes, I've been drawing so many comparisons between this game and Deltarune, I feel like Toby for sure took inspiration from this or other RPG/Paper Mario games! I haven't ever seen anyone else say anything about it until now though?
@@SkywardWarriorCosplaygamer mostly because people make the Jevil/Dimentio connection.
@@worldssmallestdestron7819 True, and that's understandable from a thematic and design perspective too!
And then what happened?
Oh yes. It’s Super Mario: Rocket Propelled Grenade. Because as a 11 year old kid who up until that point had never played an RPG in his life let alone heard the term before armed only with a Merriam-Webster dictionary as his family had not gotten the internet yet, this was the only definition of RPG I had. There were no rockets and no grenades, but a lot of fun had and dozens upon dozens of JRPGs later, I have Super Mario: Rocket Propelled Grenade to thank for introducing me to the genre.
The updated thumbnail and title send me
When 2 arrogant corporations work together on a piece of media the odds of the resulting product being drug into oblivion by rights issues and egos are sadly quite high. If Square Enix actually is bought out by Sony this game will probably vanish entirely outside emulators, a horrifying thought to say the least.
Yeah it's really rough, especially when one of them is *even more* stingey than the other.
You can always get a SNES classic that's how I'm playing the game.
Never played Super Mario RPG, but after the recent direct I'm guessing this video didn't age well
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That mention of SuperStar Saga's eventual fate hurt. I still hope we somehow get another in the future
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Yay it's finally getting a remake. 🎉🎉🎉
HOT TAKE: Paper Mario never lived up to Mario RPG.
In Europe this game wasn't even released, I bought an adopter after reading about it in a forum back in early 2000th. Didn't worked, so I really started playing this with the Mini-SNES. I am glad they re-release it soon.