The Super Mario RPG remake is an impossible wish come true. The biggest complaints for this release pale in comparison to incredible visuals, new intense challenges, fantastic music, and well-retained charm. This release is sure to be worthwhile for both fans of the original and first-time Mario players.
This new version of Super Mario RPG still feels fresh. It's another win for Nintendo's approach to remaking their cult classics; as faithful as Metroid Prime Remastered, but updated just enough to entice new players.
Iconic, a classial, just perfect in any way. I love how much they kept it like the original but just made it high quality instead of just making a port on the switch
You’ve got to handle a beloved game remake with kid gloves, and that’s exactly what Nintendo has done with Super Mario RPG. This is a careful remake, adding goodies like a monster list, or the option to play with the original music, rather than taking anything away. If nothing else, it’s a remarkable testimony to the ability of designers from 1996 to make a game this good that still feels as brilliant today, and it bodes incredibly well for the 2024 re-release of Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door.
A great introduction to RPG games and offers a challenge as you push through the title. It’s got a lovely modern Switch sheen to it but still keeps all the core values of the original, classic game.
Switch’s Mario RPG feel like a love letter to the original game. Fans of the 1996 version will be delighted by the care that’s gone into recreating the SNES title scene-for-scene. For everyone else, this remains a charming RPG adventure well worth discovering.
Even without some necessary changes, Super Mario RPG remains one of the plumber's most charming and eccentric adventures. The remake faithfully maintains it's quirkyness while expanding the magic with one of the Switch's most impressive graphic treatments. If you are a fan of the original, however, know that this is not exactly the remake that the original deserved.
This game is as a remake a very good experience, because it is so close to the original game. The graphic is beautiful despite little framedrops. The characters are charming and you get the idea, why this game get this high reputation. This game is the origin off the later acclaimed Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door and Mario & Luigi: Bowsers Inside Story.
However the disatvantage being so close to the original is, that there are no improvements or modern elements, which means it has the same issues like the original game from 1996. The isometric perspektive make this game look cute and charming, but on the other side makes jumping in this game terrible. You will miss a lot of jumps by simply missjudging the gap between two plattforms. Which can be in the end a bit frustrating because there where the most plattforming parts.
Another thing is, that Super Mario RPG is really simple in it's structure. You will only need less than 20 hours to play through the main story. There is no deep story, no deep character developement. It is just find the seven stars and then you finished it. The way it builds up follows a established formular. You get the information where the next star is, follow the route, come to a town or a village where something strange is going on, go in the dungeon or wood nearby and beat the boss.
This is not really a bad thing, because this is the structure most RPG's in the 90's used and it still works and is an enjoyable and relaxing experience. However I wished these bunch of sympathic characters, the gameplay and the writing, where a bit more fleshed out. so clearly a missed opportunity
All in all a great remake, which is maybe a bit too close to the original for it's own good.
It's an okay game but these reviews are highly inflated. The story is extremely linear and the combat progression is as well. It feels like you're on a conveyor belt where you hardly have to make any choices. You'rein charge of your equipment and then three stats. Outside of that there's really just one or two best moves for a character. it gets old pretty quick.
I imagine this game was groundbreaking and exciting in 1995. Not so much today.
The game still feels old and too difficult. Boring sound design and terrible combat system. I like turn-based and the speed. But it’s to hard to react by this timing. It’s like the SNES version is running in background. Not worth 60 bucks. Maybe 20. Anyway, you can test the SNES version. If you don’t like it, you’ll not like the remake. It’s the same old feeling. Other people may like this. But in this case I’m bored about. Feels cheap and I’m stuck now and quit. I hope Nintendo will not follow this path.
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