Super Mario RPG (2023) with a side of salt 

People seriously don't give Mario's mannerisms in this game enough attention, they're hilarious.

I also really like the dances the characters do in the level-up screen. Everyone’s a little guy!

I like how menacing mario looks when holding the salt

The way Mario tries to explain things to NPCs in this game is like whenever Courage the Cowardly Dog tries to explain something to Muriel and Eustace. Masterclass

Luigi was the one to write the instruction booklet in the original. So he at least participated in the adventure, even if he's not in the game.

I’m just happy that we’re getting two Mario RPG’s back to back. You know what grinds my gears? The fact that Square Enix owns the characters made for Super Mario RPG like Geno and Mallow despite them being specifically made for that game. Like why hold onto the rights to the Mario characters you made for the Mario RPG?

Its nice to see that we'll see a new generation of Geno and Mallow art. I wonder if they would ever consider doing a sequel with more original characters.

Only thing I'm annoyed about is the lack of the poker card symbols when special moves are activated. Yeah, that's weird to notice, but I loved that kind of aesthetic choice.

"You are factually incorrect if you ever try to tell me that Sticker Star is better than this or Thousand Year Door." Somewhere, [REDACTED] is smiling right now since someone is throwing Sticker Star in the wringer. Comment edited due to the original RU-vidr I mentioned having gotten into a huge controversy back in January 2024.

They did good with some of the minor changes like giving you the Signal Ring early or giving Mario's House a way to store excess items

In terms of voice acting, I STILL hear chuggaaconroy's voices from like, 15 years ago while I'm playing the game.

Love that little nod at the beginning of the video to the old mario rpg fan song

4:52 Booster engine 023: allow me to introduce myself.

3:26 is the part of the game where realised this Mario wasn't afraid to throw hands and that made me laugh pretty hard.

0:00-0:04 Loving that Rawest Forest reference

the most interesting change between the original and the remake is you can block essentially everything that isn't AoE or has "Can't Block." now. in the original mario rpg for snes, you couldn't block any single target magic at all, or stuff like croco's bomb toss or Birdo's egg. but in the remake you can perfectly guard all of that. the mack skip being gone, flower tabs being unable to be sold, and item limits in mario rpg remake will be interesting for low level runs, especially because its possible to block almost everything and the triple move will actually be useful somewhat for it

That was a nice moment of self reflection at the end, with Scott mentioning how the saltiness of his persona has been toned down.

Mallow's magic is nothing to scoff at. Don't know why people dislike him.

Woah new editing style jumpscare

1:00 Fun Fact: Yasuyuki Hasebe, the designer of the combat system, also directed Legend of Dragoon, a game that also had action commands

0:44 There is one big change from the original in peach’s castle, there is a hidden chest with a collectable coin above her door, and the only way to get it is jumping on a toad’s head and using that as leverage… but that toad only appears once, and you only have 10 seconds to get on their head before they are gone forever… but in the remake, when you come back, the toad just walks in the hallway and is there forever

Lol, Mario looks so cute and memeable with that salt shaker! 😄😂😆

Mario fans try not to buy the game for geno challenge

I’ve always wanted to play this game, I can’t wait to play it

Something else about the party members that can be swapped in: if you somehow wipe, the other character(s) will automatically jump in so you can keep the battle going, use a Pick-Me-Up on Mario, swap in the original (downed) crew and get them back up, too. I only ever had this happen on the upgraded boss rematches, but it's a super nice mechanic to have.

Mario's lil dance when other characters level up is a masterpiece

"We could've had two Peach! Maybe more!!" Imagine. Also, really like that Scott is slowly turning into Jack Fenton

Loved the vid! I really liked how you worked your new avatar into it, thanks for being awesome!

Scotts hair is filling with Salt now.

Okay as much as I love the thumbnail, it brings up a good point that the white background and static characters was the worst possible box art they could have gone with. Obviously this remake is catering to fans, but it's going to really have trouble sticking out amongst other box covers and make the game a hard sell for potential new fans.

"Two peach. Maybe more!" Bro been working on a medley of all 17 Pokemon theme songs.

*ScottFalco:* "I love these little guys!" *ScottFalco's Editor:* "I hate Mallow."

Frackles did a great job! Looking forward to future salts

I just realized that the opening line of this is a reference to the fist line of rawest forest

great vid as always, i just wanted to say you can fill in the bestairy on the mole hill area as theres a hidden guy near a sign taking about enemy info

"Super Mario RPG" with absolutely no title difference. No "Remake" or "Rejumped" or "Returned". Just "Super Mario RPG"

2:53 This is 100% correct. Playable Bowser > just about any other character. Add Peach having a guaranteed place as well, and that you can't drop Mario no matter what, and there just isn't any room for the OCs. You'd better knock it out of the park with the new characters if you expect me to use them instead of Bowser and Peach. My response to "Geno in Smash" has always been "Who? Wait, there were other party characters in Mario RPG? I... guess that seems right now that you mention it?" My utter disinterest in Mallow and Geno aside though, I really can't praise the visuals of this remake enough. I'm pretty okay with updating or changing gameplay in a remake, but art direction and aesthetics are where my nostalgia lives. If I want a remake of a beloved classic, there's only one way to do it right: Update the technical aspects of the visuals, but make absolutely no change to the art direction. I want it to look like the same artists, with the same creative intent, had tried to accomplish the same vibe they had gone for originally, but on today's hardware. Fail to do that, and I'm out. Good riddance to retro technical limitations, but without the original visual style under those limitations the soul is gone. And I really can't think of any remake that has recreated the original style more faithfully than this one. It's unfortunately a bittersweet success though, since Mario RPG never exactly had my favorite art style in the first place. I've always loathed the prerendered 3d thing, and none of its original ally or enemy designs did much for me. But at least I finally have one remake I can point to as a perfect example of updating the visual presentation while maintaining the original art direction. (If anything it stuck visually closer to the original than needed, since it didn't just maintain the art direction, it even kept the same fixed top-down camera and other purely presentational aspects that I'd be fine with updating. But at least it absolutely NAILED style recreation specifically.) If only the FFVII remakes had stayed even half as faithful to the creative style of the original version, I might have actually cared about them. I'm 100% okay with the radically changed gameplay, but the characters look so very wrong now. On top of that, it really hurts that the upcoming Thousand Year Door remake didn't get the Mario RPG level of stylistic accuracy, because I liked its original art direction much more than Mario RPG's. But of course, as per all the newer Paper Mario games, it had to be "updated" into going way too hard on the actually, literally in-universe made of paper aesthetic. So yeah, super cool that the game fffaarrr less near and dear to my heart gets its visuals perfectly recreated, but the one I LOVED as is does get its style messed with. I'm pretty sure they only did Mario RPG so correctly to make messing up the more important one sting even harder.

Man I really want another Mario & Luigi game, those are my favorite!

Always here for the Luigi love 💚. I'm glad you mentioned the lack of sound effects I was wondering what was off while playing it.

I'm really enjoying the new Scott model! Super happy you went through with it.

I love how mario repeatedly proves he’s Mario to other characters by doing his classic trademark Mario jump

It feels so weird seeing Scott significantly more toned down than usual, considering I like to rewatch a lot of older videos from channels I enjoy, I'm not complaining about it mind you, it just definitely caught me off guard the first time, but I'm always happy to see self improvement in people!

4:12 that’s actually a lot of peoples big gripes is a lack of sound effects like there should be sounds or even voice acting but what makes it even more Jarring is one Boss does have sound effects in his intro Czar Dragon roars in his cutscene like what happened

1:10 ooh... Pokemon and Fire Emblem felt that lol, but not sure on Final Fantasy, only played 7 so far and that came out what a year after the original Mario RPG?

Thanks for that intro, im glad im not the only one with that song stuck in my head.

I’m loving the fact that younger gamers are getting the same experience I had in the 90’s! Mario’s pantomime was one of my favorite things and they do such a wonderful job translating it all. Such a treat! ❤️

3:58 HELL NAW!! We don't need another "How dare you disturb our family vacation" moment! Keep the voices in the movies, those are ACTUALLY good!

0:26 That was like, my first thought I had about these game, yet you are the only RU-vidr I've seen who shared that notion. I remember how much effort SmallAnt put into playing the shit out of that game.

0:05 WHEN I PLAY THE GAME I GET LOST IN A PHASE

Also of note is that this is where Bowser first got anything resembling a personality as a character, and honestly it's still one of the best versions of him. This is the lovable bully frenemy Bowser I can see joining in for go-karts and tennis in between kidnappings and over-the-top villainy as his day job. He's so much less interesting when he just kidnaps the princess, scoots off to World 8, takes three hits with a roar each time and dies.

0:45 Not just Bruce Lee, Confucius was removed as well, with Frogfucius getting renamed to "Frog Sage". Toadstool got renamed to Peach to fit her true name. King Koopa got renamed to Bowser (localization name) and "Koopa Troop" got renamed to "Bowsers Minions". It's rather jarring when Bowser starts talking in 3rd person to mention "Bowser's Minions". Link in Rose Town, Samus in the Castle guest room (I originally feared they wasn't added, but they show up late game), Culux in Monstro Town, and the Donkey Kong references were kept thankfully, though their dialog was changed to the Japanese version. The Arwing and Blue Falcon are still there as well

Glad to see someone mention the lack of sound effects. The boss intro scenes all looked so awesome but there was also just something uncanny about how silent they were. Like, Yaridovich is a giant walking spear made of metal. Why does he have have no... clanging footsteps or anything in his little intro? I don't need them throughout the entire fights, just in those intros.

this game looks so amazing, i hope it does really good in sales so we could get a sequel

They Gotta Do A Mario And Luigi RPG Game For The Switch, If all the Mario Rpgs Got a remake, That Series Deserves One.

iv noticed mario doesnt do the peace sign but tips his cap now. he also spins slower. some of the sound affects dont show up when they use to. like when croco jumps and runs his feet, it doesnt make the tiking sound before the fast weeoo sound. small nitpicks, i know.

if anyone ever told me that sticker star was better than this or thousand year door i would be escorting them to the psych ward to get their brain checked and corrected for such heresy

What kind of bugs me is the change in button mapping pushing the new quick menus to X and Y, and the dash button relegated to shoulder buttons.

Great reference at the start!

The reference to the song in the beginning really brought back some memories

Beat it last night. I wish it had a hard mode off the bat but I enjoyed it and had fun.

Being able to swap out heros mid-battle goes a long way towards making use of them all equally.

Mario is really standing like "can i offer you some salt in these trying times?"

i like how scott's character looks like a tired old lighthouse keeper now

Frackles did amazing! This was amazing editing. Keep up the great work! Also hope you're taking care of yourself Scott.

Preach! Can't wait to get my hands on this game and the eventual thousand-year door remake.

This game looks absolutely beautiful! I'm excited for the possibility so many people will be introduced to Mario RPG and hopefully go back and play the original!

It is a very adorable visual upgrade that im glad im playing through again, but I secretly hope there's a deeper end game that you're not revealing...

I like how he starts off with the song

im hoping this game does great so we can have an RPG series, imagine having new entries now with luigi, daisy, yoshi and other characters as playable, im definitly geting it in a bit more but first i need to finish tears of the kingdom and mario wonder or im going to have to many games waiting on my backllog XP

The hard transition from baby Falco to late-30’s Falco is A: Pretty cool, and B: Probably hard to believe for both you as the creator and is as an audience realizing how long this has been going. Still, very funny video as always! Great work!

Group Exp in Mario: 😁 Group Exp in Pokemon: 😠

That ending bit was so funny XD

Glad to see someone other than I noticed the extreme drop in difficulty. If you perfect time a Jump Attack you can kill the Hammer Bros bosses in three Jumps. I don't mean three each. Three total. The first Hammer Bro gets one-shot, the second one casts Valor Up and takes two. The damage/HP scaling even on normal is WAY tuned down even without the extra additions of AOE timed hits. This game was never nut-crushingly challenging but it is definitely way, way easier now overall. Which is a weird choice for what I consider the most beginner-friendly JRPG-style game ever made who's name isn't Mystic Quest. Also they removed a few more things, Mario's Pad is now called 'Mario House' on the sign instead of 'Pipehouse' and Kinklinks are now Chaindeliers. Looks like they hard-edited anything that could have been used for innuendo.

nice reference at the start scott was not expecting it no i wont say it if you know you know

As a member of Mallow Players United, I love the fluffball. I also tend to just like mages in general so he fits my style. Geno does too, with his big AoE damages. i do kiiiind of wish they nerfed the Work Pants in the remake, because they are just blatantly overpowered, but otherwise I am finding it a very enjoyable romp.

Fantastic game! Wish the timing cleaned up a bit during action command. There is also the Yoshi minigame where it didn't feel quite right either.

Did a no item run for this game and it made the game so much more fun and had a good difficulty curve

If anyone else enjoys a jrpg like this with mini games on the side I’d highly recommend Yakuza like a dragon

For real The editing in this videos is sublime

Pretty sure that Sticker Star is the best RPG for paper mario or mario in general the story had me crying tears of joy at the end cause it was over

They also moved the Mack/Claymorton event trigger up to the first Shyster. So, the skip can’t be done in a speedrun

when pokemon chibi: everybody angry when mario rpg chibi: everybody happy

seriously, I LOVE the new look! congrats dude!

Mario’s little dance when another character levels up is my favorite thing in all of gaming 2023.

2:16 is that jack black

That is literally the greatest thumbnail I've ever seen. I mean, I'm not even sure why, it just is.

Is not a bad remake, but a big opportunity lost of making it a full fledge 3D world remade to be explore in many different ways and new forms to hide some new and old secrets or add the appearance of other classic characters. That's assuming the old hardware that is the NS could do the job.

"people clamouring for Geno for smash will be playing this for the first time" Hahaha man thats just a joke that NEVER GETS OLD.

Honestly I've noticed myself swapping party members around a lot more than I did in the original because theres no penalty to switching mid battle. It's great

Plan on getting this game for my birthday.

As much as i love the OST, the option to toggle classic and modern made me smile when i selected classic and never switched back.

Thanks to you I'm now listening to the rawest forest animation on loop.

Nintendo acknowledging thousand year door is wild. Id assumed that game was buried for eternity

7:06 Nah fam, bro is just speaking facts right about now 💀

That’s A Well Done Thumbnail Art.

Them having the enemy stats/weakness gives me some hope for the TTYD Remake, since that game has a ton of statuses and each enemy has a different percentage chance to be affected by them, yet the game tells you none of this. There's basically no easy way to tell whether something was immune to a status or you were just unlucky beyond just trial and error.

Okay you’re right about Bobby but it was absolutely hilarious how long it got played out, was totally not expecting them to hold a mini funeral and everything, had me laughing so hard.

That's dissappointing to know they didn't balance the enemies when they gave the allies a team attack and perfect timing bonus. If they have an even easier mode then that should have the team attack and perfect timing and just leave normal mode like it was back in the original game. This worries me now for the thousand year door remake. These games don't need an easy mode or if they add one then made it optional and keep the difficulty of the original. I'm glad I'd played the original last year before the wii u eshop closed because I never though Super Mario RPG would get a remake.

Mario: I'm Right, I'm left. I'm Right, I'm left.

You don't need to be in post-game to use Frog Coins for filling out the bestiary. You just need to reach Booster Pass and the one to talk to is in the area where the switch with 3 K-9s are.