Kotaku: "Last week I had the opportunity to talk to Yoshihiko Maekawa, the Japanese designer who directed Super Mario RPG and now works for a company called AlphaDream, where he works on the Mario & Luigi games. We were mostly talking about the newest Mario & Luigi, which is out on August 11 for 3DS, but I slipped in a question about Super Mario RPG. I told him it was one of my favorite games, and I asked if he has any interest in revisiting that world at any point in the future."
In the 16-bit era, game devs and composers could finally change the type of tones used in the music, simulating a wider array of instruments and creating a whole lot of great soundtracks in the process.
It wasn’t easy picking out the best of the best because there were so many great ones. Even middle-of-the-road soundtracks seemed to deserve a bump if the game was just that damn good, and so many from that era are that damn good!
Here's the Ghetto Gamer list of top 20 soundtracks from the 16-bit era.
The director of Super Mario RPG wants to make a sequel of the game to close out his career
Super Mario rpg was my first introduction to jrpgs on the SNES. I adored it so much I was hooked & bought most jrpgs made by Squaresoft including others like Breath Of Fire 1& 2 on the SNES.
That would be great, but please make it in the same vein as the original. Just super updated graphics and visual effects.
The original was my gateway into JRPGs and still holds a place in my heart as one of my favorite games of all time.
Something about the M&L games never let them reach the level of RPG, in my opinion.
I feel like RPG had the perfect balance of "wacky" elements, along with a story that felt like it had real stakes. While M&L, and even Paper Mario's stories, are just all about telling a joke. And thus there isn't a sense of accomplishment when you beat the "threath".
I never played mario rpg so maybe im wrong with that, but from what i seem the combat at least is pretty similar? Turnbased with some timing for button presses to enhance your attacks. The story was a bit cliche in the first M&L, but its not like i expected Last of Us quality from it, but it was pretty funny regardless.
These JRPGs stand up on their own.
bummer it would be a Wii U killer app
A new SMRPG or a proper Paper Mario would make me happy.
doesn't matter since the game lives on in spirit through the Mario & luigi and paper Mario games. It would be nice to see a true sequel on wii u eventually.
This is sad, but oh well, I have wonderful 101, pikmin 3, mario 3d, Donkey Kong tropical breeze, sonic lost worlds, bayonetta 2, monolith X, mario kart and smash bros. coming to keep me happy!!