A rumor floated today that perhaps we might see a remake of Super Mario RPG in the next Direct. Regardless if it pans out, if Super Mario RPG were to get a remake what would you want from it? (Graphics, QOL, new content etc.) I thought about posting this just in the Direct thread, but I’d love to hear from people in a calmer, contained thread where discussion could potentially continue beyond if it doesn’t show up this week.
Mario RPG is deeply important to me as one of the games that early on cemented my love for RPGs. It showed to me too the potential of the genre as it expanded the world of Mario with original characters and locations and had both isometric platforming and action commands for an engaging gameplay mix. If you know me, I’m never that wild about Remakes, but I do think there is potential here depending on what they exactly do with it.
I’d like to see a fairly bold remake if they are making one which includes the original SNES game inside it so we can finally have it officially on a handheld. It should be 3D graphics and perhaps even controls while maintaining the isometric perspective. HD-2D wildly misses the point of the game. It must keep the original characters and enemies and even if it deviates a bit, it needs to keep some of the edge particularly with how that game uses shadows (I don’t want a plastic-like New Super look).
Beyond nailing the core adventure, I want some new adventures inside of it whether that’s in the form of epilogue / 2nd quest content, or some other adventures you can veer off towards (new islands, stuff in space, etc.). For this new content, new characters would be fun to see. Perhaps get Luigi in there with dialogue and upgrade Samus and Link to playable characters instead of just cameos. I don’t think any of this content has to be super extensive, but five solid hours of some kind of new adventures would be fun. Raise the level cap to 40 if necessary and give us a new spell and weapon for every character. The hardest part is coming up with new events, a town, and minigames, as I don’t think just more combat / dungeons alone are enough.
Both Nintendo and Square aren’t strangers to making worthwhile extra content, so I think something like this is possible, it’s just going to be hard to make it all fit just right. I don’t know if I believe this rumor is real, but again even with my dislike of remakes I think there is potential here to do something cool. If they did go the extra mile, I said it from the start, but they need to make the original game available in some way. It absolutely still holds up today.
I’d like to see a fairly bold remake if they are making one which includes the original SNES game inside it so we can finally have it officially on a handheld. It should be 3D graphics and perhaps even controls while maintaining the isometric perspective. HD-2D wildly misses the point of the game. It must keep the original characters and enemies and even if it deviates a bit, it needs to keep some of the edge particularly with how that game uses shadows (I don’t want a plastic-like New Super look).
Beyond nailing the core adventure, I want some new adventures inside of it whether that’s in the form of epilogue / 2nd quest content, or some other adventures you can veer off towards (new islands, stuff in space, etc.). For this new content, new characters would be fun to see. Perhaps get Luigi in there with dialogue and upgrade Samus and Link to playable characters instead of just cameos. I don’t think any of this content has to be super extensive, but five solid hours of some kind of new adventures would be fun. Raise the level cap to 40 if necessary and give us a new spell and weapon for every character. The hardest part is coming up with new events, a town, and minigames, as I don’t think just more combat / dungeons alone are enough.
Both Nintendo and Square aren’t strangers to making worthwhile extra content, so I think something like this is possible, it’s just going to be hard to make it all fit just right. I don’t know if I believe this rumor is real, but again even with my dislike of remakes I think there is potential here to do something cool. If they did go the extra mile, I said it from the start, but they need to make the original game available in some way. It absolutely still holds up today.
I’d buy the original again if it was offered.
