Super Mario RPG has dropped to its lowest price yet at Amazon and Walmart. A modernized version of Mario’s debut role-playing game, Super Mario RPG is discounted to only $39. Switch exclusives rarely drop below $40–especially Mario games that are still fairly new. The enhanced version of the Super Nintendo classic released on Switch last November. Though Switch owners may currently be preoccupied with Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Super Mario RPG scratches a similar itch and is definitely worth grabbing at this price.
Incredibly faithful to the beloved original, Super Mario RPG is a charming Switch game enhanced with several quality-of-life changes that make it more approachable to newcomers. Mario RPG veterans will appreciate the series of post-game fights that really test your prowess.
Beyond those additions and tweaks, Super Mario RPG on Switch plays very similarly as the iconic original on Super Nintendo. The excellent turn-based combat still feels great today, the characters and writing are heartfelt and humorous, and the world design still has that classic Nintendo charm.
GameSpot’s Super Mario RPG review found the modernized version of the SNES classic to be a delight. “Super Mario RPG is one of the wildest games in Nintendo’s catalog. Loaded with eccentric characters like a Santa-esque big bad, random bouts of dark comedy–Toad cosplayers tickle as a form of torture and a four-eyed dog swallows you whole and comments on the taste–and moment-to-moment gameplay that is as raucous as it is eclectic, Super Mario RPG memorably capped off the SNES lifecycle. Fittingly, the new Switch version is one of the weirdest remasters I’ve ever played. Its surface-level appearance as a modern Mario game is merely a facade. Relentlessly faithful to the original, Super Mario RPG is a bold and largely successful experiment.”
As for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, it’s also exceedingly faithful to the original GameCube release. It earned a 9/10 in our Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door review.