I feel part of the reason the story is deemed "deep" is less the story itself and more that it has developed characters to speak off, plus some really unfitting elements such as the entirety of Chapter 7, where Mario is basically sent to his universe's equivalent of Hell. I think the whole game...
Not necessarily Mario-related but the GameCube controller is horribly uncomfortable for me and I have no idea how it stayed in the public mind for so long.
The only game I could play with it is Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door since it isn't very taxing, but I legit could not play Super...
Realistically speaking if one of the two is gonna be in Smash, it's Geno.
Not just because he's the fan-favorite and Ultimate has given us a bunch of fan-favorites already but because Sakurai has said he wanted Geno in the roster not once, but twice. Not many candidates can say that.
You probably don't see a lot of love for Geno here since there's no real way he can make a comeback outside of Smash or a Super Mario RPG remake / sequel. It's not like the RPG characters are being used for Mario Kart.
Which imo would be fantastic if they were included since the RPGs hold some...
I feel ditching the whole isometric angle they were going for and streamlining it with the rest of the RPGs would go a long way to fix a lot of its clunkiness. For the most part you're moving in diagonal angles, which is harder than moving in the cardinal directions like you can in Paper Mario...
Not surprising that Super Mario RPG hasn't aged all that well, considering it's the series' first take on the genre. At least its successors improved on the formula.
The villains are still cool tho
I wanna rephrase one of my opinions from my previous comment: I still stand by liking Mario games when they are more serious, but I still really like its lighthearted goofiness. What I think I moreso meant is that I like it when the Mario universe is treated less like an arbitrary world for...
This never really bothered me that much, mainly because for the most part they all had fairly placed save points.
Also I don't think it's fair to count Bowser's Keep and the Factory as one area considering they're both separate with the latter being the definitive end of the game, even if...
I got some more hot takes fresh from the oven:
Piranha Plant is just an okay addition to Smash overall but I feel like Smash didn't need a character as non-descript as a generic Piranha Plant. I'm not complaining about its inclusion but I hope it's a one-off and that actual characters are still...
Daisy > Peach > Rosalina
Right now, Yoshi as a franchise has more stinkers than it does good games.
People like to call Super Paper Mario's story deep when it really isn't all that deep? It's definitely one of the more creative plotlines in the franchise and I like its characters, but the game's...