My Super Mario RPG playthrough topic.

I just now got it today because I forgot it was coming out and I just got the first star. Random thoughts.

The controls are different, right? Unless I'm losing my mind. You used to hold down Y to have to sprint, but now it's auto sprint, right?

The music is more amazing than ever. I really feel like newer Nintendo games have really dropped the ball with music. Both the new Zeldas and Mario Wonder have very low key, minimalist music. RPG is so god damn bombastic. Mushroom Kingdom theme was just so in your face.

Is it still best to go for the highest increase when leveling up? Or is there some kind of meta strat here?

Is Bowser still strangely bad or did they buff him? I remember when I was a kid playing we always used Bowser, thinking he was the strongest and not realizing he sucked. I only learned he sucked as an adult. That's probably why I never felt like the game was as easy as everyone always says it is.

Sucks that the frame rate drops below 60 fps sometimes.

I'm still using my old and tattered players guide book for the original to make sure I get all the hidden chests.

I really like that they added exclamation points for when you're supposed to hit the A button in battle. Sometimes it was so mysterious. For instance, when hammer brothers throw a ton of hammers at you. I never knew exactly what counted. But now I know you just need to do it on the very first hammer. Also nice of the game to tell you when you can't block against stuff, like with the fire wall attack. Little kid me would just try to do it anyway and not know if I was failing or not.