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Best RPG on the SNES!

posted 8 years ago by acriser15
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Best RPG on the SNES, if not the best game ever on the SNES. This one was pretty damn good, I like it! I always wanted to play as Luigi too, and Toad. I have, however, played this game for a long time and still never understood how the level up works. It was a little confusing. You can pick hp, pow or stars and I think I know what they all mean, it just adds a few points bonus to whatever you pick and I believe you can still complete the game no matter what. The beetlemania mini game was a cool add-on but it takes forever to max out the score. I think it was 99,999,999, but still was a cool little mini game. The Midas River course was kinda difficult to get all 100 coins. I tried for a long time and it is hard. Other than that the game's not really hard if you know what your doing and level up/buy the best armor. I really enjoyed it and it's right up there with Super Mario World, Super Metroid, Earthbound, Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana.

[–] SolemnMime (174) 6 years ago

This is something I don't see people mentioning much. For its time and platform, this was not only a pretty good RPG overall (though only 5 characters was a bit disappointing for easily over 10 hours of first-run, casual gameplay) but the gameplay/story/dynamics/etc. were pretty good too. I still find the game pretty enjoyable since when I was a little kid, despite it having its limitations in ways.

It probably is one of the best RPG game for its platform (standing right beside Final Fantasy 6), given that it is based in the Mario world and is the first attempt at making a role-playing game in that "universe." Until Final Fantasy 7 and so forth came along, it and FF6 were probably among the best 2-D RPGs you could find pre 1997. Not saying other good titles didn't exist, but these were pretty exceptional.