Ubisoft earned a wave of attention last year when it announced it was partnering with Nintendo to make a turn-based tactical strategy game featuring the cast and locales of the Mario games.
The fact that Ubisoft convinced Nintendo to give Mario a gun was surprising, but it wasn't the first time Nintendo partnered with an external company to put Mario in a new kind of game. Notably, in the '90s Nintendo partnered with Squaresoft to make Super Mario RPG for the SNES.
"We didnt want to make a normal RPG that simply substituted in Mario characters, like some cheap Final Fantasy sprite-swap," said director Chihiro Fujioka in newly-translated interviews from 1995.
The 1996 SNES classic returns on Nintendo Switch. There's lots of new aesthetics and features, but still lots of nostalgia as well. Is the weirdly funny and seemingly off-brand game worth its money in 2023?
As Super Mario RPG finds new life on Switch, we take a look back at the standout RPG it inspired.
Super Mario RPG's upcoming remake needs to maintain the classic game as much as possible, but new content and extra bosses would make it even better.
A true sequel would be great bring back Square again use Mellow and Gino in a new story.
The only thing I might add in 1 more party member.
I always felt like "5" in the original was such a weird choice. All the UI had slots for 6 characters. c
On top of that, there are 3 canon Mario characters(Mario, Bowser, Peach), but 2 new ones in Mallow and Geno. I can't help but think there was supposed to be a third that was cut for time.(Croco or Johnny Jones perhaps)
ff5 had four members onscreen. not 5
4 did, yes. but it was the only mainline with five party members on the screen.
Wasn't what I said. I'm talking about overall amount of party members, not how many are on screen.
If you watched the announcement trailer for more than 10 seconds you'd realize its not 1:1.
How so? Visually, it's as 1:1 as you can humanly get. They literally recreated scenes part for part in full 3d.
As for gameplay, the changes we can see are so incredibly minor. Joystick movement as opposed to d-pad, some chain boosts added during battle, etc.
Great game, I still have my SNES cartridge.
Can't believe this wasn't dug up sooner! I think I'm going to read the longer interview, because this short snippet wasn't enough for my curiosity.
Definitely one of my all-time favorite games, which I still have the cartridge and box to.
This is the Mario Rpg that needed a sequel. Shame we'll probably never get one.
How is it that Square kept the rights to Geno but not the rights to Sora