The Mario RPG thread earlier this week made me want to play one. I never played Mario and Luigi Dream Team despite picking it up at launch so I’ve been playing that. It’s bit slow to open up, but I’m digging it a lot since the general feel is just like the first three games. Just reached the desert area. I don’t think the elevator pitch for the game is that weird, but the execution definitely is as you regularly go inside Luigi’s dreams, take over elements of the dream world (Luigi possessing trees for example), and meet a bunch of echoes of him and his stray thoughts as you delve deeper.
I’ve also been playing Crystar on PS4. It’s tragic backstory the game as every character and enemy has a tragic back story in purgatory. It has a clumsily unearned hook for the main quest that I’m still invested in. The 3D Ys-like gameplay feels just shy of being good. Can only play like an hour at a time since it is very repetitive, but I’m determined to beat it eventually.