The best Mario and Luigi game by a country mile.
Superstar Saga is like riding a rollercoaster. The game has a breakneck pace that keeps it super engaging throughout its entire runtime.
I love how many twists and turns the story has. It keeps pivoting to more and more insane places. It's like playing a Looney Tunes short. It's a shame that the complete badshitery of the story was toned down in the later games, cause I had so much fun with this one.
It might not be a mechanically or thematically rich as its sequels, but it's pure dumb fun.
Superstar Saga is like riding a rollercoaster. The game has a breakneck pace that keeps it super engaging throughout its entire runtime.
I love how many twists and turns the story has. It keeps pivoting to more and more insane places. It's like playing a Looney Tunes short. It's a shame that the complete badshitery of the story was toned down in the later games, cause I had so much fun with this one.
It might not be a mechanically or thematically rich as its sequels, but it's pure dumb fun.
A great debut for this goated series! The pixel art is delightful, the humor is charming, and the setting is actually unique.
The existence of this game's "Beanbean Kingdom" makes me wonder if all the kingdoms in the Mario world are plant themed. I wish that more Mario games explored other locations like this, places that have their own lore and themes beyond plains, desert, lava, etc.
There are a couple minor kinks in the experience, such as the infamous tutorials present throughout the entire series, but nothing substantial enough to bring down the fun. I'm tempted to replay the whole series since this game was such fun.
The existence of this game's "Beanbean Kingdom" makes me wonder if all the kingdoms in the Mario world are plant themed. I wish that more Mario games explored other locations like this, places that have their own lore and themes beyond plains, desert, lava, etc.
There are a couple minor kinks in the experience, such as the infamous tutorials present throughout the entire series, but nothing substantial enough to bring down the fun. I'm tempted to replay the whole series since this game was such fun.
It's a great first entry in the series, but it's clear that Nintendo didn't have a whole lot of confidence in it. There is a good amount of backtracking. There are several music tracks that are 10 second loops. I feel like it struggles a bit to find its footing as a concept for a game.
But it's a good game. Worth a play for sure.
But it's a good game. Worth a play for sure.
Tu chega numa parte do jogo em que tem o caminho de cima e o da direita, dai tu vai no da direita e tem inimigos impossíveis que te matam e te fazem voltar pro inicio do save. E então tu pensa: “Dessa vez irei pelo caminho de cima”, e acaba encontrando inimigos impossíveis que te matam e te fazem voltar pro inicio do save.
De onde eu venho, isso tem um nome: Bad game design
De onde eu venho, isso tem um nome: Bad game design
In a funny little twist, the very first game of the Mario & Luigi series was the final game for me (excluding the remakes) that I had yet to play, so finding out Superstar Saga is available on the Switch was definitely a highlight of January for me :) It's such a charming little game and I'm so glad I held off watching a playthrough so I got to experience it first hand.
The pacing felt weird at times and the story line was a little all over the place? Finding out Thunderhand and Firebrand, which seem so integral to fanon interpretations of the bros, were gained by complete happenstance rather than any real necessity story-wise was very strange and the Bro Moves weren't very intuitive despite being where a majority of your damage comes from- at least in my experience.
That being said, I loved this game a lot :) I loved how much character they gave the bros and Peasley is easily a favorite.
The pacing felt weird at times and the story line was a little all over the place? Finding out Thunderhand and Firebrand, which seem so integral to fanon interpretations of the bros, were gained by complete happenstance rather than any real necessity story-wise was very strange and the Bro Moves weren't very intuitive despite being where a majority of your damage comes from- at least in my experience.
That being said, I loved this game a lot :) I loved how much character they gave the bros and Peasley is easily a favorite.
I always viewed Mario and Luigi as a series to be less charming than the earlier Paper Mario games, and after playing this I'm glad to find out I was wrong for the most part. This game is actually pretty inventive and funny! Also really appreciated some pretty solid overworld/dungeon puzzle design. Probably ranks better than the OG Super Mario RPG in my books.
It indeed has decently comedic writing, good style, interesting setting and characters and kickstarted an influential RPG franchise. While I do consider this to have been a pleasing experience in the greater scheme of things, there are many things which have infuriated me, such as unbalanced boss fights (including the completely unbalanced Mush Badge which allowed me to 2-hit KO one of the most infamous final bosses in the franchise), cryptic mechanics (i.e. Advance attacks) and a lot of very repetitive enemy spamming. It is worth playing for the exploration aspect and to experience the writing, but it is one of those RPGs where I feel like they might have been better off just making a comic.