They really souped up the SMRPG timed attacks and defenses for the Mario & Luigi series. There's a lot more animation and you have to do a lot more strategizing based on any given monster's size and shape. I get a huge kick out of playing as Bowser, though my favorite from that series is Partners In Time. Something about Luigi's pseudoItalian gibberish in that one cracks me up. (I always make it a point to build Luigi into an unstoppable tank. I dunno, it's just funnier that way.)
I still highly recommend SMRPG. Square did marvelously weird things to the Marioverse, their sense of humor is spot-on, and it's also simply gorgeous. And the attention to detail was great--there are endless bizarre little Easter eggs for you to find, like exiting the wrong way out of Marrymore, or suddenly turning into 8-Bit Mario, or the whole business with the Lamb's Lure. The attacks are wildly fun. (The "hurling Mario at the bad guys" Bowser employs in one of the comics is an actual weapon you can buy.) And Toad is just so cute in that one.
Plus, Fawful's got a spiritual cousin in Booster. Booster is just weird.
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Date: 2012-05-03 09:54 pm (UTC)They really souped up the SMRPG timed attacks and defenses for the Mario & Luigi series. There's a lot more animation and you have to do a lot more strategizing based on any given monster's size and shape. I get a huge kick out of playing as Bowser, though my favorite from that series is Partners In Time. Something about Luigi's pseudoItalian gibberish in that one cracks me up. (I always make it a point to build Luigi into an unstoppable tank. I dunno, it's just funnier that way.)
I still highly recommend SMRPG. Square did marvelously weird things to the Marioverse, their sense of humor is spot-on, and it's also simply gorgeous. And the attention to detail was great--there are endless bizarre little Easter eggs for you to find, like exiting the wrong way out of Marrymore, or suddenly turning into 8-Bit Mario, or the whole business with the Lamb's Lure. The attacks are wildly fun. (The "hurling Mario at the bad guys" Bowser employs in one of the comics is an actual weapon you can buy.) And Toad is just so cute in that one.
Plus, Fawful's got a spiritual cousin in Booster. Booster is just weird.