Ooooo now this one always intrigued me. When I was a kid I was BIG into Mario & Luigi. Bowser's Inside Story was my first RPG experience and it was PEAK. Then i saw this weird little thing called "Paper Mario" or something idk. I already had my 3DS ready to go for when Dream Team dropped, but in the time I thought hey why not try out this um huh uh what's it called "Paper Mario: Sticker Sta-" dies
Throughout all that i watching stupid youtubers and they were OBSESSED with this game. Everytime a Geno, Mallow, Smithy, Star Road or whatever were mentioned. I was watching Mario Bros Z. and these assholes the Axem Rangers appeared and I recognized them and I was like OH MY GOD so yes through the 2010s i was exposed to this game that people wouldn't shut up about.
Don't worry this is where I'll talk about the game SO fast forward to 2023 they announce a remake and I'm like PERFECT morbid curiosity got me and I bought the remake. It was kinda not exactly what i was expecting?? Like this game is goofy and strange, and introduces things that will never appear again. A true lighting-in-a-bottle time capsule for Mario, which is honestly awesome. The turn based combat in this game caught me off-guard so much, as in, it was bitch easy. I've heard that this game was an "introductory" RPG but I never really understood what that meant. Now I know. You're not playing this game for the combat, even though it's well realized and has its own charm with timed actions, it just doesn't try to be more than that.
The pacing of this game also caught me by surprise. A brisk 12-hour RPG???? What?? Even in future Mario RPGs the play time would range at about the 25-30 hour mark on a normal playthrough, but here comes this game hitting me with reasonable pacing excuse me. So we've got a short, easy, breezy, baby RPG that for the longest time was stuck as an anomaly. So why were people obsessed with it? Well to me it seems Mario RPG nails its world and characters. An easy, relaxing game that can be replayed at a moment's notice, with a fun and catchy soundtrack that I hear more in youtuber videos than in the actual game. It's just a damn charming game.
People love this game because it will never happen again.
Throughout all that i watching stupid youtubers and they were OBSESSED with this game. Everytime a Geno, Mallow, Smithy, Star Road or whatever were mentioned. I was watching Mario Bros Z. and these assholes the Axem Rangers appeared and I recognized them and I was like OH MY GOD so yes through the 2010s i was exposed to this game that people wouldn't shut up about.
Don't worry this is where I'll talk about the game SO fast forward to 2023 they announce a remake and I'm like PERFECT morbid curiosity got me and I bought the remake. It was kinda not exactly what i was expecting?? Like this game is goofy and strange, and introduces things that will never appear again. A true lighting-in-a-bottle time capsule for Mario, which is honestly awesome. The turn based combat in this game caught me off-guard so much, as in, it was bitch easy. I've heard that this game was an "introductory" RPG but I never really understood what that meant. Now I know. You're not playing this game for the combat, even though it's well realized and has its own charm with timed actions, it just doesn't try to be more than that.
The pacing of this game also caught me by surprise. A brisk 12-hour RPG???? What?? Even in future Mario RPGs the play time would range at about the 25-30 hour mark on a normal playthrough, but here comes this game hitting me with reasonable pacing excuse me. So we've got a short, easy, breezy, baby RPG that for the longest time was stuck as an anomaly. So why were people obsessed with it? Well to me it seems Mario RPG nails its world and characters. An easy, relaxing game that can be replayed at a moment's notice, with a fun and catchy soundtrack that I hear more in youtuber videos than in the actual game. It's just a damn charming game.
People love this game because it will never happen again.