Mario RPG

[Anonymous No.6106789]

I have been thinking about replaying Mario RPG, and while I remember a lot of the characters and pantomime skits the game has, I really don't remember much of the gameplay itself.
So what are you favorite aspects of Super Mario RPG? Favorite enemies, bosses, levels, etc.

[Anonymous No.6106791]

I've been waiting for this guy to be in Smash for roughly 13 years now...

[Anonymous No.6106793]

>>6106791
What do you like about Geno?
Personally, I never really saw the appeal of the character.

[Anonymous No.6106796]

>>6106793
He's a cool character concept of a higher being controlling a doll, the doll has a cool design, his moves are cool, his personality is cool. Just everything about him, really.

[Anonymous No.6106806]

>>6106791
He got a sticker, at least.

[Anonymous No.6106808]

>>6106806
Quite a downgrade from the last game though

[Anonymous No.6106818]

Fuck this little bastard STOP RUNNING AWAY

[Anonymous No.6106934]

Grind jump for infinite power.

[Anonymous No.6107231]

>>6106934
Wear jump shoes to ascend to a higher state of being too.

[Anonymous No.6107386]

>>6106789
My favorite enemies were the Axem Rangers. Such a silly parody within the game that took place over the course of an entire dungeon.

>>6106791
>>6106806
>>6106808
You can play him in Legacy XP. He's pretty damn fun, and the designers even added a mechanic for him that mimics the "timed-hit" damage bonus from SMRPG. And his character uses all the original sound effects from the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4murzvL_d8c

[Anonymous No.6107402]

Jonathan's eyes aren't in his mouth you idiots they're just close to it, look at his mates

[Anonymous No.6107682]

Bowser's original victory pose, changed for overseas because it's apparently an offensive gesture in select countries. Not the US though, making this a rare instance of an "obscene" thing being changed for someone other than us.

[Anonymous No.6107685]

>>6107682
That pose is from the JPN version, they changed it for us, you have it backwards.

[Anonymous No.6107690]

>deals 4 digit damage to you in a game where your HP cap is 255

[Anonymous No.6107696]

>>6107402
I always thought the thing people were seeing as an eye in his mouth is just one of his teeth overlapping his tongue.

[Anonymous No.6107701]

>>6107685
>Bowser's original victory pose [in the Japanese version -- the "original" one], changed for overseas [in relation to Japan] because it's apparently an offensive gesture in select countries [not the US or Japan]. Not the US though, making this a rare instance of an "obscene" thing being changed for someone other than us [some European countries].

[Anonymous No.6107713]

>>6107701
>>6107682
yup, that's the arm pose people would do while giving someone the finger way back when, at least in the uk.

[Anonymous No.6107719]

>>6107701
That doesn't make any sense and whatever source you're quoting is stupid. It means "up yours," even in America, and is a close cousin to flipping the bird. Why would they change the NTSC-U version of a game for what would only be offensive to a PAL region? That's dumb.

[Anonymous No.6107740]

>>6107719
Probably because NTSC is also a South American thing in places, where the gesture is also offensive.

[Anonymous No.6108429]

>>6106789
Geno Whirl on Exor :^)

[Anonymous No.6108457]

>>6106789
This was the game that taught me what RPGs were. I had no idea and rented it just because it was Mario, and I quickly got confused as fuck about why I was picking my attacks from a menu instead of just jumping on shit like a normal Mario game.

I didn't try it again until over a decade later when it was on the Wii virtual console. I enjoyed it a lot, by then. Recently did a marathon playthrough with a friend where we took turns, it was pretty comfy. I liked the tone and aesthetic of the world. Mixing Mario with some standard fantasy elements gave us a Mushroom Kingdom that feels so much more alive than the homogenized version we've had set in stone for the past 15+ years. I love the Link/Samus cameos and the general fun of the dialogue.

Game has some annoying/tedious parts, mostly because the battles are so easy and certain areas throw a lot of mandatory encounters at you. Worst part of the game is the mini-game cavalcade in Bowser's castle, since trivia is lame and isometric platforming is bullshit. That whole segment really kills the fucking pace of what should be the most high-energy part of the game.

>>6106934
I loved learning this, pretty cool feature.

>>6107682
>Not the US though
Pretty sure that IS an obscene gesture in the US, even without the middle finger extended.

[Anonymous No.6108587]

>>6108457
People will probably assume you’re trying to insult them somehow, but be fairly confused. Most people just wouldn’t like being gestured at in general, but this specific one wouldn’t natively have any connotations, though they may have some idea of its implication in other cultures.

It’d be like if you started chanting “Bollocks!” in the US. People would for the most part understand you’re trying to curse, but it’d have this fish-out-of-water flavor to it.

[Anonymous No.6108632]

>>6108587
>People will probably assume you’re trying to insult them somehow, but be fairly confused
Nah, it was a pretty common gesture in most parts of the US, up through the '90s. Generally, it meant "up yours" as opposed to the middle finger's "fuck you" connotation. It was a more mild gesture and was used in movies or tv shows where a middle finger wouldn't have flown. I definitely got in trouble for doing it at school, though. It kinda fell out of use after the turn of the century, so I guess maybe that's why zoomers aren't familiar with it.

[Anonymous No.6108645]

>>6108632
This. My dad always called it "the Itaian salute". It was pretty popular in New York with all the immigrants, and you'd see it a lot in movies with stereotypical Italian characters. It played second fiddle to the finger in the US, but it was still seen as being pretty offensive.

[Anonymous No.6108714]

>>6108632
Guess we can just agree to disagree on this

[Anonymous No.6108745]

>>6108714
There is no "agree to disagree" on a fucking fact, you retard. Just because you're not old enough or cultured enough to be aware about something doesn't mean you're still right. The gesture originated in Europe, but is well known in America, thanks to immigration. It was Nintendo of America that made the fucking choice to remove it, so clearly it meant something to someone here. Sorry that it ruins your "unique" piece of bullshit trivia, but I guess you'll have to talk about something else on your next shitty wannabe retro game podcast.

[Anonymous No.6108965]

>>6108745
Calm down. It’s a fringe thing at best. You probably didn’t even think about it for years on end.

[Anonymous No.6108985]

>>6108965
You probably suck hobo dick for spare change. Eat shit and die faggot zoomer.

[Anonymous No.6109089]

>>6108985
>t.

[Anonymous No.6109135]

>>6108745
To be entirely fair, I never saw it as a kid in the 90's midatlantic and I can't think of a movie or show offhand that used it. Anons often take up the most ridiculous points of contention so I can forgive the guy for assuming you were just some asshole trying to pick some bizarre fight. Especially as it involves internationality, which /int/ards go entirely prodromal over

[Anonymous No.6109163]

>>6109135
>assuming you were just some asshole trying to pick some bizarre fight.
how is that not what he is

[Anonymous No.6109290]

>>6106791
Keep coping genofag

[Anonymous No.6109658]

>>6109290
Kek

[Anonymous No.6110159]

>>6108965
>It’s a fringe thing at best
Uh, no. It's pretty well-known by anyone who isn't a shut-in or a retarded zoomer. Cope harder.

>>6109163
There is no fight. That anon is wrong and I corrected him, but he's ignorant and refuses to believe that he might be wrong that he's just passive-aggressively asserting that we should "agree to disagree", because it makes his stupid trivia less interesting.

[Anonymous No.6110770]

>>6110159
Weren’t you arguing to him that it’s the immigrants’ influence that made it a thing here? Isn’t that like saying they changed the gestures for people from countries other than the United States? That’s not exactly mutually exclusive with what he was saying. In any case you both are going on anecdotal evidence at best so it’s kind of a silly discussion.

[Anonymous No.6110853]

>>6106789
>that jiggle
This is a boss that awoke things in young men

[Anonymous No.6111062]

>>6110770
He was saying immigrants from decades ago who formed post-immigrant communities.

[Anonymous No.6111079]

>>6110853

[Anonymous No.6111091]

[Anonymous No.6111148]

>>6111079
>normal sprite barely looks taller than mario & cia
>literally a gigantress in her boss battle

[Anonymous No.6111151]

>>6111148
Welcome to SNES-era Square bosses

[Anonymous No.6111154]

>>6111079
>>6111148
why is she sitting on a banana?

[Anonymous No.6111169]

>>6111154
implications

[Anonymous No.6111175]

>ugly frog faced woman with bird hair

[Anonymous No.6111185]

>>6107696
This design will never make sense to me

[Anonymous No.6111191]

>>6111148
who's cia?

[Anonymous No.6111204]

>>6111191
>for you

[Anonymous No.6111215]

>>6111151
I know, but her huge size is still strange compared to most SMRPG bosses.

>>6111154
Her japanese name is "Margarita".

>>6111191
"Cia." means friends or company.

[Anonymous No.6111256]

>>6111215
>I know, but her huge size is still strange compared to most SMRPG bosses.
They probably just wanted to show her figure in-game.

[Anonymous No.6112636]

>>6111215
Isn't the Square giant sprite boss thing mostly notable because of the human characters though? The monsters being giant never looked out of place for me, just the humans, and Valentina is the closest to a human character you fight in that game (not counting your party clones), so maybe they did it like that on purpose to reference that, or just >>6111256

[Anonymous No.6112669]

>>6112636
>>6111256
Then again booster is normal sized

[Anonymous No.6112673]

Comfy game all around, especially the music

[Anonymous No.6112682]

>>6112669
Yeah but you never actually fought Booster

[Anonymous No.6112701]

>>6112682
Uh anon