Super Mario RPG's post game blew my mind... 

The culex refight has to be one of the coolest things a Nintendo remake has ever done. Thanks Nintendo for this gemstone remake. Can’t wait for thousand year door!

2D Culex in the encyclopedia: I feel out of place here..... 3D Culex in the encyclopedia: BEHOLD! THE POWER OF POST GAME CONTENT!

3D Culex has to be one of my favourite bosses of all time because of the build-up and payoff to what was probably one of, if not THE most highly anticipated parts of the remake. The fact that they start with the original 2D Culex and also have him wish that he could be 3D is genius. The payoff of going through all of the post-game bosses before finally being greeted to his stronger, 3D form is such a good mini-story, not to mention that the fight itself is NUTS lmao. It's easily my favourite part of this game

Spoilers for the video: Fun fact: If you kill Culex before the crystals the crystals all die but they bring back Culex to full health.

I was half expecting them to give us a stronger version of the original superboss. But the way they did it actually blew my mind. There was no 6HP Geno moment but it was equally as epic.

9:07 By the way, in this fight, the chefs are weak to sleep. So you can completely stop the candle mechanic. Points for having them be very sleepy in the intro cutscene to hint it.

His reactions to Toad’s insultingly useless advice during the Johnny rematch slayed me. Basically exactly my reactions when I went through it.

I will never forget the day you lost your voice and your mind upon witnessing Culex in 3D.

11:25 Bro the way he screamed "Meteor" got me laughing hard 😂😂

This was by far the best remake I have ever played. I loved the original, but the remake just improved in every way. The only downside is that it’s easier with the new mechanics. But that’s OK because it may be easier, but the new mechanics are just so much fun to use. And Culex 3D was one of the best boss fights I’ve ever played in an RPG. Here’s that the TTYD remake will be just as good if not, better.

Fun fact about Culex: He's named after a type of mosquito. On top of that, it's actually a really subtle reference to Golbez from FF4, who is named after a type of blood sucking fly.

This remake, no matter how many times I go back to it, it just doesn't feel real, it almost feels like this was never meant to happen, but a miracle allowed us to revisit a beloved game that, I would argue, has definitely stood the test of time. All thanks be Nintendo to for this gem of a video game

As someone who played this game for the first time about a decade ago, this is the absolute coolest thing and makes the entire existence of the remake worth it.

The Cluex boss returning in bit form and then being able to rematch him in 3d with a remix is really cool. 💫

Culex was handled perfectly. He was originally a joke about being 2D, but wasn’t in English. The Culex re-fight is having your cake and eating it, too.

11:48 IT’S OVER 9000!!

One of the things I most love about your content is how positive you always are about the games you play, other RU-vidrs tend to be a bit more negative about them but you always take the time to give a good game the credit it deserves. It's just so wholesome to see you express just how much you love the games you play

I loved this postgame because it makes you THINK to beat the superbosses, it's not just a grind fest. Incredibly enjoyable game, this changed RPGs forever.

This was a 10/10 remake. I loved absolutely everything about it. Watching you play it has been a real treat too! I can't wait to see your Thousand Year Door playthrough! Took me like 7 or so attempts on beating Culex 3D by the way! I think I was at a similar level if not maybe slightly higher, but Culex 3D was everything I had hoped for in a Superboss. The fact that you can fight him again makes me so happy.

The creator of this game said he wishes to make a sequel and then retire, considering the success it’s more than likely to happen

3D Culex looks amazing. This game is a masterpiece

One thing I think Brent would like about the Culex bit, is how after seeing his face, the Squidward "Oh no, he's hot!" fits _perfectly!_ Hell, I've seen a lot of shorts on YT for the fight... it's strange how common "... DAMN, tho!" is used.

Oh, the Crystal Shard kinda reminds me of the Proof of Connection in Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix, you get that item after beating the Lingering Will, the hardest Super Boss in the game (there's 15 of them), and it does nothing but give Sora a crown that changes materials depending how many Proofs you have

I remember when I was speculating Culex's fight, I thought it would've been the same 2D sprite as in the original, another fan argued he'd rather want a full 3D render with the flashy special effects. I'm so glad that we got both right.

Safe to say getting the ultimate weapons and armor is the best idea for postgane

Yo! Post game Mario RPG on my birthday?! This is the perfect start to this day! I’m also really happy that you flipped out over the Culex rematch as much as I did! It’s absolutely one of the best things Nintendo has ever done in a remake!

Yeah the Culex battle was a whole different breed of difficulty.

This game is seriously beautiful, I feel sad it's already over but it was fantastic while it lasted. Mario RPG is 100% one of my new favorite games.

I love that your FP and Frog Coins were all 7's. Also, I appreciate the final notes you left us with. You're a real one.

I loved basically everything about this game. I loved that they let you swap in different characters mid-battle, because it can keep your roster varied and because it lets the postgame bosses be especially lethal. I loved that they gave all the characters new ultimate weapons. I loved the quality of life changes. It is obvious that the folks who worked on this game loved the original as much as we do. Geno gets to shine more and Mallow gets to be more expressive and adorable, so first timers will love them and us old timers will love them even more. FANTASTIC.

I still wonder why brent won't use the lazy shell weapon, while the rest of the team uses the best weapons. 12:32 yeah, that makes sense.

My only complaint about the Mario RPG remake is that we never get to travel to Vanda or meet the dark mage, I guess we’ll have to wait until that one game Culex mentions in his post battle speech where he and Mario were enemies.

That scream on him was amazing 8:30

You defeated 3D Culex at level 22 on your 2nd attempt… I have no words, honestly. 👏🏻

This man really took on 2D Culex without the Lazy Shell and won?! I salute you, sir!

Congrats on getting the crystal shard! All that’s left is to collect 73 more to fight Zero-Two

As someone who grew up with this game the remake was everything I could of asked for. Those credits where it starts in the 16 bit then transitions pulled some heart strings and opened memories. I’m so happy this got made and hope these characters come back more often.

I now want to see more RPGs played by you, and also you sound so wholesome talking about how much you like Super Mario RPG & the remake! Makes me want to play this!

One thing I can always appreciate about your videos is how much care you put into them. I absolutely can say you're one of my favorite youtubers. Keep doing what you're doing!

A beautiful finale. Thanks for the playthrough Brent, and I hope the Mario and Luigi series gets some love with remakes next year!

I like how he cut out the wtf part out. When he saw culex in twitch.

Brent: Aw damn, i though they would change the theme! Later: "They got us in the first half, not gonna lie." Edit: One thing to add in was Brent saying that he hopes this isint a one and done deal? The Director of the remake did indeed mention that he would be interested in making a proper sequel to this game. Here is hoping it follows through.

When King Of Skill HAS to use the Lazy Shell you know the fight's hard.

The fact you cleared the Post Game without being at max level is honestly outstanding. I couldn't beat Punchinello and Booster without being at level 30.

5:38 king of skill: I'm gonna beat this guy in 2 seconds flat 2 seconds later: oh shi-

It was such a nice journey! I really hope they do something with this concept again!^^

Proof that Mario and friends can beat Sephiroth.

Culex is probably a portrayal of classic final bosses. (Or any fantasy final boss…)

Almost forgot: One final thing I enjoy, is how, after Punchinello's second fight, once you get the Wonder Chomp, if you trigger the end credits proper, when it shows the restoration efforts at Bowser's castle, Punchinello has been added to his minions, just like Bowser said he'd do. He's involved in fixing up the castle.

Johnny's refight is one of the best refights because the fight is all about timing, timing your attack, timing to block Johnny's attack and you can't use items or specials

Ngl I was expecting you to call him "Final Form Culex"

I had so much fun battling people, I wish the max level cap was higher, I reached it by the time I got to the end of Nimbus Land. Watching Brent play made me realize just how unintentionally easy I made the game because I hit the max level, and found everybody’s best weapons.

That moment with Johnny's dialogue always seems to give people pause. "A tremendous duel, just the two of us!" "Eh, whatever..." "Without any items, even!" "Just start th-Wait hol' up, what was that last bit?" He's not TOO BAD, but maaaan does it make you feel like it'll be worse than it actually is.

3:29 "guys "do it again" the funny meme"😅

Now do a challenge where you’re not allowed to swap out your characters mid fight

Flare used to be called Corona, I wonder why they changed the name

3D Culex actually has 9999 HP. And as one person said, killing him first will make the crystals revive him back to 9999. So the crystals basically pull a "Do it again!" if you kill Culex before them.

Fun fact for the Booster fight! The Snifsters CAN take 9999 damage from Geno Whirl.

Fun fact, if tou kill culex before the crystals, they will revive him at his full 9999 health...anr then die

I played the original back then so the remake was everything and more than i could have hoped for this was a true gem of a game also i was half expecting you put in squidward sayin OH NO HES HOT when he appeared in 3d great video

the fact that he beat culex without being level 30 just shows how much of the king of skill he is.

The backseat gaming from Toad it killed me 😂

I hope Nintendo and Square Enix team up again and make a sequel to this masterpiece.

Culex, a male Au Ra before Final Fantasy XIV existed.

This is random, but you should totally play the Mario RPG Armageddon mod! I never played it myself, but I heard it's really difficult. And it has a lot of content to do

As an ff14 player who reached endwalker post game, I was waiting to see how you would like the new theme. It’s REALLY good!❤

I hoped that after you beat 3D Culex, there would also be a beefed up version of Smithy. But Culex was really awesome as well, left me more than satisfied.

I always love it when he gets so flabbergasted at random things😂

The squidward nose video 🤣🤣🤣 This is my first time watching your videos good stuff! I subbed 👍🏽💯

3D Culex blew me away! I love the music and challenge the rematch brings, Culex finally got his wish after 27 years of being a cool hidden easter egg.

I liked most of the postgame fights as the ways you'd go about most of them felt like puzzles in a sense. And then Culex 3D just steals the entire show! I think the first time I beat him, it took me 34 turns, then my second attempt was 25 I believe. Still, it's cool that you can rematch him however many times you like to see if you can break your record! What's absurd is seeing people beat Culex 3D either with a single character or in like 4 turns! In any case, loved playing this remake, your reactions and edits were amazing, and now, I wait for TTYD Remake so I can do Danger Strats again...in HD!!!

I remember fighting Jinx as soon as I unlocked Monstro Town, got the Jinx Belt and honestly doing it at that level was the most challenging thing I did in the game so far. It's *really* easy outside of post game.

0:40 that’s called foreshadowing

If only Brent knew you can fast travel to different parts of a dungeon, like the top of Booster's Tower, using the Map in the menu. Or that you can put the Tortes to sleep so they can't light up the candles. But seriously, they really designed post-game around all the broken items in the original. I had the Attack Scarf on Mario and Johnny still did a thousand damage despite the +30 to all stats.

truly a masterpiece of a game no matter what version you experienced first hand, Original or remake I will always love this game for it's charm, quirks, and overall enjoyability

Fun Fact: The Bob-ombs in the Punchinello rematch can be put to sleep

Punchinello, Booster and the Cake gets much easier with Peach's Sleepy Time, which was intended for the Chef Torte's since they were sleepy already but rushing the cake actually works lol. The Johnny fight really felt like playing Dark Souls, kudos for beating it without the Lazy Shell. Using the Lazy Shell against Culex is truly an "understandable, have a great day" moment.

0:45 Classic “Does he know?” moment. Also: editor, put the vernias face on 3D Culex

What a shame, my reminder about the journal's existence didn't make it into the video. :[

Thanks for be one of the only few youtubers that doesn't put the post game Culex fight

I thank you for blurring the secret fight. Unlike Others!!

9:55 Vernias saying "USE YOUR ITEMS"

I love how we literally beat the 3d out of culex at the end there

Bonus video: Beating 3D Culex without Lazy Shell Just make sure you have enough Colas, Pick Me Ups, and red essences

Now that Mario RPG remake is done, the journey for TTYD remake next year begins! also I was wondering if you might play "The Book of Mario:Thousands of doors" which is TTYD but AI translated as it is funny, but also if you are going to do a TTYD playthrough, either way this was a fun series to watch! thanks for the videos!

I am thankful Culex 3D didn't do that to me. Locking away items is asking for a death sentence. The most it did was seal away specials and regular attacks. Seriously. That's messed up.

This man deserves a mrdal for tackling the entire post game at level 22, which is considered under-leveled at this point (most recommend 27 or higher) Even I, a veteran who grew up with the original, still shudder at the base Culex fight if I'm lower than 21.

Well done; Johnny is by far the hardest boss imo when you don't use Attack Scarf, Super Suit, or Lazy Shell armor, took me several tries even at level 30!

11:27 that just culex version of heartless angel

Man Johnny wanted that 1v1 FD no items Mario only.

So I am not 100% about it, but if you fear Booster he loses his progress. Because I was put in the "you have one turn to try to win" scenario and feared him, and suddenly the fight became very winnable because even though he was at 100% working speed he didn't make a new train to run me over with. So I took him out the following turn.

Seem to really be enjoying this game, I see

I knew something was off with how easy the secret boss was! XD

5:44 Sheer Heart Attack has no weaknesses

Damn Culex in the Remake it looks Sick 🔥🔥🦍🦍🦍🦍

I'd say Culex is a good introductory to the concept of "super bosses" easier than most super bosses in other games but still hard enough to beat your shit. Real hard superbosses like Galdera in Octopath 2 are a nightmare

1:54 Now clouds entry in smash 4 makes much more sense.

Hiding my spoileriffic comments behind six line breaks. 5:57 | That's so much damage, in fact, that _Lazy Shell Peach_ still takes ~300. Yeah. Punchinello is where the amateur's lord and savior Lazy Shell stops making fights free, although in the case of Punchinello and Booster, it's still at least a good discount. 6:16 | Punchinello's Grinder does ~260 to Lazy Shell Peach, further factoring into why Punchinello took me four tries and made me PJSalt. 7:04 | I aced that minigame too. Although oddly enough I'd go on to fail Dodo's statue minigame. 7:23, 7:39 | I don't think I saw the trailer in question, so I had no idea the train was even the payload until I got slammed with it myself. My reaction was ... colorful. 8:30 | Unless you have your lineups planned ahead of time, a first Loco Express 023 can leave you trying to do damage control long enough for Booster and the Snifters to slam you with a second train. _(Although it probably doesn't help that my first try at this fight didn't even leave me with enough time to Thought Peek anyone before I died horribly.)_ You managed to salvage this situation pretty well. Congratulations on the recovery. 9:04 | If you need more time thanks to the cake's unblockable AoEs such as Sand Storm, there's a hilariously telegraphed status Peach can use to buy players more time. I, uhh ... had to resort to that. 9:25, 9:42 | Fire Saber and Diamond Saw are the bane of my chain. Those are the two hardest blocks for me to time correctly. 9:43, 9:56 | Game, pls. Some of the bosses could've used special hint pools so you didn't get useless advice like that. 10:50 | Speaking of gimmicks, unless this was patched in between my playthrough and you recording this part for your video, breaking your chain on your own attack is supposed to be punishable with instant death, but it's possible to equip stuff that makes you _immune to instant kills._ And before you ask: No, as busted as the Lazy Shell is, it doesn't give Deathproof. Source: Part 10 of my playthrough, in which Smithy landed an OHKO on LS Peach. 11:19 | All I knew about the Culex rematch going into it was that he got updated to a 3D model and his opening attack reduced your front line to 1 HP. It was still glorious. 11:47 | Because I healed up before starting the attack, I had to see the full 9999 ... but I thought it was pretty cool to see Culex go there for what was supposed to be the hardest fight in the game. 12:12 | Horrible luck there. My jaw dropped when he did his first Special Lock, since Bowyer was *NOT* someone I expected Culex 3D to get inspiration from. 12:32 | Oh, right, I should've expected a Lazy Shell ban up to this point. Fair enough; the Punchinello rematch is the first thing to even remotely _try_ to balance this item out. 12:48 | Probably goes without saying, but the trick to the Spare-us-all is to memorize the turn order so you can time it correctly. Like at 13:09. 13:27 | And if you kill Culex before all four crystals die, the remaining crystals sacrifice themselves to revive Culex. I don't know if his revive HP scales with how many crystals survived up to this point, but since all four lasted Culex's lifebar, guess who had to deal with another 9999 HP? :upside_down: I was able to win on my first try in less than 43 minutes, but with a wrong strategy that extended the fight by several turns. 13:36 | I was so used to not using Red Essences the whole game that I completely forgot about all three of mine in this fight, even though they were on the same page as my Party Bracers and Party Energizers. 13:46 | The lower-tier Colas are great for conserving your [up to] three Kero-Colas too quickly. 14:14 | RIP Culex's Reraise. The fight's less tedious if you do this. 14:20 | Notice that attack was blockable. As soon as you learn the timing, he's sunk. 14:39 | Dealing with 10k HP (20k in my case) can reduce the fight to a slog, yes... 14:57 | OH SNAP you were a lower level than me! I went into the first Culex fight at level 22 _(a little after beating Valentina)_ and the 3D rematch at level 26. Although instead of turning to level grinding, I think it's just I didn't make much of an attempt to avoid fights. Also I over-relied on Mallow's Thunderbolt and an all-in Magic investment complete with the arguably broken _Work Pants._ 15:03 | Going into the postgame I fully expected Culex to be what would make me grind to level 30 ... instead of winning at level 26. Then again the Lazy Shell raises your punching level by several level, once again eluding to why you'd banned it in the first place. 15:22 | I needed 59. _"That is quite a long time."_ Although I attribute my slower pace to using a wrong strategy and my timings being sloppy.

And now... we await for Paper Mario and The Thousand Year Door!!!

Have you tried the SMRPG Armageddon mod? The numbers are much higher