Mario is better as a JRPG not as a platformer its insane how Paper Mario Mario & Luigi games and Mario RPG are way better than the platformers games i wish the Mario movies were as good as the Mario JRPGs
>>12511219Platformers are better than RPGs as a genre, this is obvious..so why is paper Mario so good to you?
Paper Mario is special because it let's players explore the world of mario with JRPG interactivity. It's also one of the few JRPG's to embrace an anachronistic fantasy world, the others being Earthbound and Undertale. It's a world with castles and kingdoms, celestial palaces and magical lands, but also computers and robots, as well as passenger trains and wizards, all wrapped up with an earnest worldbuilding of familiar Mario World characters... but suddenly given JRPG style lore. We get to know about Toad culture or Goomba lifestyle.Nintendo's wisdom of bringing interactivity and mini-game like challenges to the turn based combat also elevates the whole thing even higher.JRPG's live or die on two things: is the turn based combat system fun and is the world interesting to explore. There's something really fascinating and surprising about exploring Paper Mario worlds, always something unexpected or funny or strange around every corner... a feeling that is less prevalent in a typical fantasy JRPG with knights and kingdoms and familiar tropes.
I hate to be the “baby game” guy but the mario & luigi series is for actual children and is always a slog. Bowsers inside story is the best but is also a bit of a slog
>>12512252Mario and luigi is way harder than both smrpg and paper mario though
>>12512205I can't deal with Nintendrones.
>>12511507When you combine both you have the ultimate ludo
>>12512205>its a world with castles and also robots and trains>there are not many jrpgs like thiswhat is Final Fantasy you fucking idiot.
>>12514315An awful mishmash retarded setting that you can't take seriously
>>12512252Mario & Luigi has one of the only fights I consider even slightly hard in the Mario RPGs though.This thing's last phase is just mean.
>>12511219>>12512258>>12512252I'm really liking super Mario rpg remake desu, it hits every note so well, awesome pacing, fun and interactive combat due to timed hits and parry/defense timed blocks, dialogue is swift and comedic, nothing overstays it's welcome or drags on...it should be a standard rpg formula yet most RPGs feel like a real slog and super bloated with fillers
I don’t even like platformers but my favorite Mario’s are 3 and odyssey. Only piper Mario I like is 64 and only the first brothers and kinda the one with the babies are good.
>>12514341This like Chrono Trigger, are extraordinarily well paced. It's how all JRPGs should be if they want to attract a new audience instead of 60+ hour grind fests.
I pretend to like RPGs and fap to the girls but the truth is I never cared for them, they're often too long, too slow, too grindy... I just want to fuck around in a sandbox already fuck
>>12514743The best RPGs give you a character creator and then tell you to fuck off and fuck around in the world imo
