マリオ＆ルイジ RPG // Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga
Genre: RPG
Summary:
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga is a 2003 role-playing video game developed by AlphaDream and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. It is the first game in the Mario & Luigi series. The story follows Mario and Luigi as they travel to the Beanbean Kingdom in order to combat Cackletta and Fawful, who stole Princess Peach’s voice for the purpose of harnessing the power of a special artifact called the Beanstar.
Availability:
The original game was made for the GameBoy Advance. The Japanese version can be purchased secondhand on Mercari, or, I assume, acquired using other means.
There’s also a remake with new graphics that was made for the 3DS, but I’m not sure if it can be purchased legally anymore since the 3DS marketplace shut down. It may be on that Nintendo Switch subscription thing that has older games.
Personally, I prefer the pixel art of the original.
Time to Beat: Main Story: 18 hours
Personal Opinion:
This is the first video game I ever played in my life (besides, I guess, pacman on the arcade machine or whatever). I have lots of fond memories of not understanding how the game worked at all, and being terrible at it. Ahhh… なつかしい。I’ve replayed it a few times as an adult and honestly I think the gameplay is really fun and the script is so charming! It’s worth playing imo!
Pros
- Listening to Soggy’s childhood stories about playing the game each week and opinions on which areas are the most fun.
- Charming script
Cons
- It’s an old-ish game so some of the mechanics could be better, but honestly it’s not that crunchy so that’s only a light con.