If you haven't played this game what are you doing with your life? This is single handily the best JRPG ever made, there are no objections. I know what you're thinking, "but the backtracking sucks!" yeah well you unironically think Sticker Star was a better game so your opinion is already invalid.
Joking aside this is literally the peak of this series, I'm sorry but it only got worse after here. Not so much with Super Paper Mario but after that one. I wish things could go back to the way they were before, but this series has changed so drastically that it's only a pipe dream.