/vr/ - Retro Games

I love the game because it's just fun. It's not difficult at all, especially if you level-up a decent amount.

I grew up playing it, so when I play it, all my childhood memories come flowing back. Perhaps that's why it's one of my favorite games.

One day I'm going to replay through this and get all the hidden chests. I always fuck up and forget a guide and then miss at least one of the one-time-only chests.

OP is an emulator kiddie

SMRPG is great because of how crazy of a concept it was back then. Also the graphics were mindblowing back in its day, the music is also fucking great.

No not the forest theme, fuck that shit. We gotta get something good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WjMytgvcus

>mfw the first time I heard this

also dat hidden casino

and dat culex fight

Babby's first RPG

not that there's anything wrong with that

Great game

>>1492723

Anon said it best here. It really is just a downright fun game. Every scene of the game just makes me want to smile. I can fondly remember being a kid and going on this amazing Mario adventure and just being blown away by it all. It was what got me into RPGs and I don't think I'll ever forget it.

I honestly love all the Mario RPGs though. Hell I even managed to enjoy Sticker Star.

>>1492797

Good music pick, but I also dig Bowser's remixed boss theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoUrknQIQko

>>1492846
so good

>>1492713
It is pretty mediocre in many ways. However, the great graphics and music at least put it into the "should complete it at least once" category. I was never blown away by this game, but its got its good points.

My biggest complaint is that only the first part of the game feels like Mario, and has Mario looking zones. That's really the game's strongest part. After that, it just kind of meh.

Doesn't even fit in the top 10 SNES RPGs IMHO.

But I guess that Mario + Final Fantasy sounded extremely cool back then.

>>1492713
I loved this and every other mario RPG except SPM and sticker star

>>1492849
I think that's somewhat my problem with the game, the characters and environments don't look or feel like they belong to the Mario universe.

>>1492889
Not trying to fight but wasnt it the first time we ventured out of the mushroom kingdom?

Ouch, that's some shit taste OP. Are you perhaps one of those idiots who plays games for story and character? The reason SMRPG is so great is because it plays really well.

>>1492889
I have to agree, some of the new characters introduced look like something out of a Rankin & Bass TV special than a mario game.

>>1492908
who the fuck would play a Mario game for story?

>>1492954

like this guy?

>>1492975

i thought the story and characters nice, simplstic, segmented but well tied together

>>1492975
>Star Hill
>reading all the wishes
>Luigi's wish
hrrrrnnngg all my feels!

>>1492998
where exactly was Luigi anyway during the events of the game?

Super Mario RPG was great because it paced the game with a consistent amount of surprises.

Between the usual pattern of Dungeon and town, there was minigame after another, and puzzles that took the most advantage of the isometric design.

>>1493029
Hiding behind one of the houses in Mushroom Kingdom.

>>1492896
Super Mario World takes place in Dinosaur Land

>>1492797
Ah yiss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICBR9zCgAT8
And then the FF victory theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7TXsyVnuco

this game was okay, and has since been outdone by Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga, if you ask me at least. I know others might tell you the same thing, but with the first two Paper Mario games, and some may maintain that SMRPG is still king. Personally, Superstar Saga is still my choice.

>>1492713
some of it's real appeal is lost in time but it's still an amazing title

>>1492723
>>1492842
"Fun" is subjective and can't be used as proof that something is good.

>>1493312
sup /v/

Who did you guys run as your team? I went with Bowser and Geno.

>>1493591
Mallow and Peach or Geno and Peach.

>>1493591
Bowser and Peach.

>>1492889
That's probably what is most interesting about the game. It has Mario's characters and style, but it's primarily by an outside party (Squaresoft) so it is their own interpretation. It's a sort of wacky, one-off vision of Mario's universe.

>that beanstalk part

Worst fucking part of the game, because the controls and camera angle just do not mesh

>>1493686
That part is piss compared to the platformer challenges in Bowsers Keep

>>1493686
oh man! that was rough

This was the first RPG I really loved. Glad I figured out that you buy the EX doubler and go fight that one skeleton over and over in the pirate ship using Mallow's Thunderbolt.

>>1493287
The one mention of the superior sequel.

>>1493686
>Just played through SMRPG again last week for the first time in a few years
>Got through the beanstalk part easily
>I don't even play isometric platformers that often

Git gud.

>>1492729
>the type of console used is relevant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI1BudS4Ego

In my youthful and (mostly) vain attempts at defeating Smithy I would occasionally sit down and just listen to this and rock out like a spaz to that killer bass line.

This should be the de facto music for any lighthearted adventure into new lands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7O6V2bkMm4

I wish this song played whenever I am inputting an address into GPS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=com6bkkUAc4

>taking this bait

It blew my mind as a kid with the music and graphics, but it was my first RPG and I guess it didn't necessarily age well.

Still waiting to somewhat forget about it a bit so I can play it again and feast on the nostalgia.

>>1493287
Honestly, the reason why I like Superstar Saga better is because Luigi was always my favorite and his exclusion in SMRPG always kind of teed me off.

>>1492713

This was like one of my top favorite games as a kid. Honestly Nintendo is missing out not being able to use the characters in this. Geno and Mallow were cool as fuck.

>>1497421

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7O6V2bkMm4

>Bandits Way

>Dat fucking croc bandit

That guy was a real douch. First character I ever hated in a video game and then wrote my own little back story too. He is from a swamp of other alligator guys on a steam boat.

Also that fucking four armed kirby tiger thing in the sewers was a fucking nightmare.

>>1492797

>implying the forest maze theme wasn't amazing

Man fuck off, the forest theme was great. Seriously, listen to this shit. How can you not like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1lItN0-Uoo

pros: graghx were cool, music was friggin catchy, gameplay was fun, stats was new for a mario game

cons: no luigi? what the shit is this?

>>1497730
>liking mallow

what I always wondered was how did mallow never once suspect that he might not be a frog?

>>1493312
yeah but that's the best word to describe the entire series overall

fun

no burned village
no complex plot
no big plot twist
not even grinding

just broing it up with Mario and his friends

>>1497785

nigga please, if you don't grind yo mother fuckas than how do you expect to beat Culex?

>>1497781

He's a cloud. Clouds aren't too bright.

>>1497781

That's the joke.

Best place to grind is that Dry Bones inside the Sunken Ship—the one in the room with the coin box and merchant.
Enter a battle with it; have Geno wipe out the monsters with his magic; repeat. Use the Exp. Booster Ring and the nearby healing room and you can get your characters to level 25 FAST.

>>1497795
Equip Lazy Shell on Princess.
Wait half an hour for all his shit to run out of FP.
Revive party members.
rek'd.

That's how I always did it.

>>1497836
Using Mallow's thunderbolt is faster and more cost-effective. Sure you have the healing room but why trek all the way over there when you don't have to?

>>1497848
If I'm not mistaken, Mallow's Thunder Bolt doesn't cause enough damage to kill all the enemies when you first start grinding in said location.

>>1497838

spend a half hour grinding....

...beat him normally. both took the same amount of time.

u r ghey

>needing to grind in SMRPG
What in the actual fuck?

>>1497795
I always had an inventory filled with rock candy/bombs just to take out that damn wind crystal.
Mallow casted Shocker on the earth crystal, Geno used Geno Flash, and Mario kept the party up with elixirs.
This strategy usually works for me, I just prayed that Dark Star didn't fall on Mario.

>>1497764

mallow gets 10x as much character development

Only retards use a team other than Mario,Bowser and Peach.

>>1492720
there's only one cheast you can't get later it requires you jumping on toads head at the castle in the beginning

>>1498134
You can still get that chest later in the game. It's just a little tougher.

>>1497795

I never beat that mother fucka.

>>1492713

Wait I don't remember birdo in SMRPG

I'm glad it kicked off the series of Mario RPGs, whatever your opinion is on it

>>1500198
Miniboss in the Nimbus castle.

>>1492867
really? i though SPM was fairly brilliant. maybe a little boring and repetitive. wish it had just a bit more variety, but the simple fact that it was such a throwback to mario's roots gameplay-wise?

yeah. brilliant. worth a play, at least once.

>>1498028
i know right?
the level cap is like... 30. I never had to grind. I was usually at level 30 by the time I was ready to fight Smitty.

>>1492826
>5-8-5
Ya done goofed, Bowser

>>1500567

That's not Bowser talking.

>>1500567
Is it me or is it 5-7-5? I don't see the 8.

>>1500567
>1 The
>2 Day
>3 My
>4 jeen
>5 yuhs
>6 and
>7 brawn = brɔːn

Bowser didn't get that BA for nothing!

>>1492849
>Squaresoft makes a strong opening and then kinda just peters out at mid until the final boss fight

OH HOW UNUSUAL

I still like the game, but your complaint is valid. Even if it's practically a Square trademark.

>>1500647
>>1500640
Genius can be two or three syllables depending on the dialect. Where I'm from, it's three syllables.

ˈjēn-yəs
ˈjē-nē-əs

Booster's Tower was my favourite part, though I never got why they made a new character instead of just using Wario. I mean, Booster pretty much is just Wario in red clothing with a beard.