After you make Mario’s way through the short Castle section, you will encounter Bowser’s Throne room and face off with the King of Koopa himself (and Kinklink. The opening scene shows Mario crossing the bridge to arrive at Bowser Castle, and from there it switches to gameplay. If you are completely adverse to spoilers though then you may want to skip the intro, as not only does it reveal all the characters (who will be revealed in this review as well, just to let you know, as the game, manual and box don’t try to hide them) in addition to (and more spoiler worthy) also showing tons of locations from the game, including ones you won’t see until much later in the game. This intro is about five minutes long before you finally see the “Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Stars” title screen. That short opening is followed by what is perhaps one of the longest intros in gaming history (give it a look in the video above), a very cool montage of scenes from the game where the cast is introduced. ![]() Mario, of course, rushes off to the rescue in a very cool (and graphically impressive for the day) semi-3D scene where Mario seems to jump up and into the screen as he chases after her. One day Princess Toadstool (who would later be named “Peach”) is out in Mario’s garden when the sky clouds darken and who else but Bowser swoops down in his “Koopa Clown Car” (from Super Mario World) and snatches up his favorite Princess. Super Mario RPG is a game to be reckoned with and it seemingly has everything you’d want from a Super Nintendo RPG: Great graphics, great music, interesting story, a lovable cast of well-known and new characters, incredible unique gameplay (for it’s time), a huge quest with tons of mini-games and side-quests, enough secrets and hidden content that you almost assuredly won’t get it all on the first play through, a hilarious script with some of the best localization seen till that point. Wii Virtual Console Cost: USA 800 Wii Points – EUR 900 Wii PointsĬreators: Chihiro Fujioka & Shigeru Miyamoto Wii Virtual Console Debut: USA September 1st, 2008 – EUR August 22nd, 2008 – JAP June 24th, 2008 ![]() ![]() SNES Debut: USA May 13th, 1996 – Europe: Never released – JAP March 9th, 2006
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