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Super Mario RPG - Review MegaThread

Super Mario RPG is releasing on November 17, 2023 for $59.99

Site / Company	Author	Score
Destructoid	Timothy Monbleau	9/10
Dexerto	Olly Smith	4/5
EuroGamer	Christian Donlan	4/5
Game Informer	Kyle Hilliard	8.75/10
GameSpot	Steven Petite	8/10
God is Greek	Adam Cook	9/10
IGN	Tom Marks	8/10
LevelUp	Pedro Pérez Cesari	9/10
Nintendo Insider	Alex Seedhouse	9/10
NintendoLife	Alana Hagues	9/10
Polygon	Oli Welsh
Siliconera	Brent Koepp	9/10
Twinfinite	Zhiqing Wan	4/5
WCCFTech	Nathan Birch	9/10

Aggregated:

Metacritic: 83/100
Opencritic: 84/100 with 98% recommended

If you want reviews format with some summary, World of JRPG's community here as a review thread as well: https://lemmy.world/post/8301361

So, any hype for the game?

I was planning to get it day 1, but may have to delay it couple of days (for some personal reasons). What about all of you? How many of you are getting it day 1?

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I'm excited to play! The original still holds up great but this is a charming remake and a good way to introduce a new generation of players.
Link's Awakening Switch was also $60 at release and I enjoyed that a lot. When I'm buying Nintendo I've already accepted that it's not going to be cheap.
- As someone who has never had a Nintendo console before Switch, I am really happy with the remakes and remasters released.
  Loved Link's Awakening Remake, and from the reviews it seems Super Mario RPG is also a great remake.
- I'm hoping it still has the same glitch for you. Can continue to get the star over and over again as long as you don't save so you can level up really quick!

As someone who will not only love to play this, but also wants to encourage more of this in the future, I am very ok with paying full price. It's not like it was any easier than making a game from scratch, and given the number of people saying they won't be buying it, we can assume there was just as much risk as a new ip would have. So I don't see why -not- full price.
Sure I've already played the game 5 times, but I was gonna keep doing that. And now it'll be better the rest of the times.
- It's not like it was any easier than making a game from scratch
  Not sure I follow. How does having reference art, an already finished story, completed level designs, etc. not make it easier than starting from scratch?
  
  They reworked and looked over all the existing content. And added lots of little changes here and there. They redid all the graphics, and added little changes here and there. They looked at all the mechanics, and added little changes here and there. If you don't think going back into old code and either trying to add new code to it or rewriting it all from scratch in a modern style adds up to as much work as writing it in the first place... I mean there is a very good reason most companies don't update something unless it was originally made to be updated and we'll documented, or the original coder(s) are still on hand to dig back in and figure out what creative solutions to problems they had to figure out out how that crazy code even still ended up working... Believe me, it was just as much work as making the game the first time.
- Yea I've been wanting this remake for a while and by all accounts it sounds like they did a really good job. I'll be playing this tomorrow for sure. Hopefully someday we'll get a proper sequel but at least for now we have this
  
  Yeah, one of the common reasons to do a remake is to both guage and raise interest in a potential sequel, hopefully that was one of the reasons behind this one.

The original is probably my favorite console game of all time (mmmm...or tied with Paper Mario TTYD). I've purchased and downloaded, but won't start playing until later tonight. I can't wait.

It was fun, but its not 60$ worth fun in my opinion. The new/revamped music is the best part in my opinion.

What do people think of the new massive team attack? Does it mess with the balance too much? Is it easy to ignore if it does?
- Other than one scripted one it makes you do as a tutorial when they become unlocked they're optional, can keep it in your back pocket at 100% charge until you feel like manually hitting the trigger button
- So, I didn't read the reviews in-depth, as I prefer to go into games mostly blind, but some reviews mentioned, easy combat, and one in particular said new mechanics makes combat easy. I assume that's the mechanic you are talking about.
  As for how easy it is to ignore, no idea. But any attack should be voluntary I assume, shouldn't force you to use an attack.

I pre-ordered it and it's on its way, so it should arrive tomorrow. But I don't know if I'm going to start playing it right away. I was pretty hyped when it was announced, but it feels like I haven't had time to play what I was already playing before it was released 😅 I haven't finished Mario Wonder yet, and I've been playing all sorts of different stuff lately. Maybe it hooks me right away! Based on the reviews it looks like it's a great remake. We'll see....
- Heh, kind of same here, but have been itching for a RPG, so this should hold my attention.
  
  Star Ocean The Second Story R has been an excellent remake so far if you want another

I still have the SNES copy so no rush for me. Ill try to buy used for $55 or less but stoked to play the revamped version
- For a full price charge, they better have additional areas, more story, more items, a bigger world, etc

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Me and the gf played for a few hours. The modern music is nice, but eventually I went into the settings and changed it back to the classic music - around about the Forest Maze section.

$60 for a ROM? That is crazy
- ROM: Remake Of Mario?
  
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