Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

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Super Mario RPG:
Legend of the Seven Stars

Mario, Princess Toadstool, and King Bowser stand together as Exor looms in the background plunged into Bowser's Keep on the North American cover.[1]
Developer(s) Square[2]
Publisher(s) Nintendo[3][4]
Designer(s) Shigeru Miyamoto (producer)
Yoshihiko Maekawa (director)
Chihiro Fujioka (director)
Yoko Shimomura (music composer)
Hironobu Sakaguchi (production supervisor)
Platform(s) Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Virtual Console
Release date Super NES
JP March 9, 1996
NA May 13, 1996
Virtual Console (Wii)
JP June 2008[5]
NA TBA [6]
Genre(s) Adventure, role-playing
Mode(s) Single-player
Rating(s) Super NES
ESRB: K-A (Kids to Adults)
Virtual Console (Wii)
ESRB: E (Everyone)[6]
Media 32-MB SA-1 cartridge[7]
Input methods Super NES
Super NES controller
Virtual Console (Wii)
Classic Controller, GameCube controller

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, released as simply Super Mario RPG (スーパーマリオRPG Sūpā Mario Ārupījī?) in Japan, is a hybrid adventure/console role-playing game, developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) and Nintendo.[2][3] Nintendo first released the game on March 9, 1996 in Japan and on May 13, 1996 in North America. Neither Nintendo nor Square ever released a PAL version.

Super Mario RPG is the final Mario game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console,[8] as well as being one of the last games Square produced for Nintendo hardware until Chocobo Land: A Game of Dice in 2002.[9] Square mainly developed the game, with direct guidance from producer Shigeru Miyamoto.

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[edit] Gameplay

In Super Mario RPG, Mario and Bowser fight as allies in the first console role-playing game (RPG) in the Mario series. It contains token similarities to many other Square role-playing games such as Chrono Trigger and the Final Fantasy series with a story and action-based gameplay based on the Super Mario Bros. series.[10]

Mario and Mallow battle the boss Belome in a battle screen.
Mario and Mallow battle the boss Belome in a battle screen.

Mario's enemies are visible in the field; a battle ensues only if he comes in contact with one. This allows the player to evade unnecessary battles, though some fights are necessary to advance the plot. Avoiding battles also means acquiring fewer experience points, causing characters to take greater, and inflict less, damage from attacks, making battles more difficult.

[edit] Battle system

The battles themselves are a blend of platforming elements and traditional role-playing game battles. As well as selecting attacks, the player is usually required to perform action commands to increase the damage done. These consist of timed button presses and other movements (such as pressing A at the right moment, rotating the control pad or pressing Y repeatedly) to determine the power of the character's attack, a concept that was carried over to some later role-playing games such as Final Fantasy VIII. As with many other role-playing games, items are an important tool in battles. The need to perform action commands in between navigating menus requires the player to be engaged in the battle the whole time. However, much of Super Mario RPG's gameplay is outside of monster battles. In the field, the game plays much like an isometric platformer, in which traditional Mario features and new ones (such as magic spells) play a key role. There are five characters the player can control: Mario, Mallow, Geno, Bowser, and Princess Toadstool. Each character has a unique set of attacks and techniques.

[edit] Plot

[edit] Setting

Main article: World of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

[edit] Characters

Main article: List of characters in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

The game's main characters include three of the main individuals of the franchise as well as two original characters. Mario is the main character, and the hero who often saves the world. He never speaks. On his way to find and rescue Princess Toadstool — a common objective from previous Mario games — he meets up with the cloud-like being Mallow, who believes he is a tadpole. As he returns to his home with Mario, he learns the truth, that he is not a tadpole, and he was found floating in a river by his adoptive grandfather, Frogfucius, and sets off with Mario in the hope of finding his true parents. On their search, they meet a being from Star Road, who possesses a young boy's doll, Geno, taking on the doll's name and persona. He explains that he is an otherworldly traveler sent by a higher authority to recover the seven Star Pieces that must be found in order to stop Smithy, the main villain of the game. They eventually run into Bowser, and save Princess Toadstool. Bowser decides to help Mario, so he can reclaim his castle from the Smithy Gang; and the Princess, desperate to help, sneaks out of the Mushroom Kingdom to help on their travels.

[edit] Story

Croco attempts to escape from Mario and Mallow.
Croco attempts to escape from Mario and Mallow.

The game begins with Mario entering Bowser's Castle to rescue Princess Toadstool. During the battle, a giant sword crashes into Bowser’s castle and sends Mario, Peach, and Bowser flying in different directions. Mario finds his way back to the Mushroom Kingdom, where the chancelor insists that Mario recover the princess, then discover the purpose of the giant sword.

Mario leaves the Mushroom Kingdom to aid a new friend of his named Mallow, and when he returns, he finds that the kingdom is overrun by creatures claiming to be part of the Smithy gang. When he defeats them, he finds a mysterious Star Piece. He takes, it, hoping to find out more about it later.

During Mario’s search for the princess, he meets a doll named Geno who is possessed by a star spirit. He tells Mario that the Star Piece is part of the Star Road, where Geno lives. He must find all of the shattered pieces of Star Road in order to repair it, which are held by members of the Smithy gang. Mario agrees to help Geno in his search.

Mario eventually finds Bowser, trying to reassemble his forces; and the princess, as she is about to be forcibly married to a character named Booster. They both join Mario’s party and help look for Star Pieces.

Valentina (top right), with Nimbus Land citizens.
Valentina (top right), with Nimbus Land citizens.

When they have most of the Star Pieces, they learn that the last one is held in Bowser’s Castle. They return to Bowser’s Castle, and discover that the giant sword is a gateway to Smithy’s factory. They confront Smithy in his factory, and defeat him. They then use the Star Pieces to repair Star Road.

[edit] Development

The game was officially unveiled by both Mario creator and producer Shigeru Miyamoto and co-director Chihiro Fujioka at the 1995 V-Jump Festival event in Japan[11]. Miyamoto led talented teams at Nintendo and Square who spent more than a year developing, as Nintendo Power wrote, “the most stunning graphics of any RPG at the time.”[2] The story takes place in a newly rendered Mushroom Kingdom based on the Super Mario Bros. series. A town of mining moles (Moleville), tropical forest (Forest Maze), mushroom castle (Mushroom Kingdom), thundering waterfall (Midas River), giant bean stalk (Land's End), and villages crowded with mushroom people were a few of the exterior locations at the time Square reported the game was about 70% complete in October 1995, when Nintendo Power announced Mario finds himself riding Mode 7 rail cars, which exist in the Moleville mines. Square created all the interior elements such as columns and stairways and exterior elements using Advanced Computer Modeling (ACM) techniques. Special lighting effects create the shadows and reflections that give the 3D elements such a full, realistic appearance.[3][12]

With guidance from Miyamoto, Square developed the game in Japan combining parts of its traditional RPGs, Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger, with Nintendo's platform games. Square's Final Fantasy series was the model for the battle sequences while the tradition of Super Mario Bros. games demanded a lot of action. During visits to town, Mario talks to people, buys items, and learns secrets just as in a standard RPG, but the 3D graphics show Mario does more than previous RPG characters, even highly animated heroes such as Crono.[13] Mario must dodge a salvo of Bullet Bills in the Sunken Ship, recreate a tune by hopping across musical tadpoles in Tadpole Pond, and hop to turn a huge nut so that it travels along the thread of a bridge made from a giant bolt in the Factory. Mario's ability to jog in eight directions and jump up or down in three–quarter perspective gives him complete 3D motion. Mario's radically new screen perspective is reminiscent of action games such as Equinox, but at the current stage of completion, the mix of adventure and action game play elements placed it in a category closer to The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.[3][12]

When Nintendo of America (NOA) received a 60% complete version in November, the biggest surprise was that there was an actual RPG battle system, contrary to what NOA heard earlier. Mario stomping on enemies launches the battle screen sequence. The battle screens, rendered just like the rest of the game, include attack animations of equipped weapons.[13]

Compared to previous Mario games, where characters only moved left, right, up or down, there are four times as many ways to go, the most dramatic change in the character's 15–year history up until that point. Created by SGI workstations, the game's graphics could only compare to Rare's Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble, and Killer Instinct.[3][12]

In December, further development delayed the game for the translation as well as improvements to the game play.[14] For example, the Chancellor before named the Mushroom Retainer,[3][12] was now the "minister".[14] Plans were to continue through February for the North American version,[14] forecasting the release from Winter to Spring.[15][16].[3][12]

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars is one of only three games outside Japan for the SNES to utilize the Nintendo SA-1. (The other two are Kirby Super Star and Kirby's Dream Land 3.) Compared with standard SNES games, this additional microprocessor allows higher clock speed, faster RAM, greater memory mapping capabilities, data storage and compression, new DMA modes (such as bitmap to bitplane transfer), and built-in CIC lockout (for piracy protection and regional marketing control).[17] The graphics are much like Sonic 3D Blast on the Sega Genesis .

The game's sound effects employed the SPC700. The sound chip's built-in function was not something unique to this game, with a primitive simulation of a reverb effect through a short delay (or echo). The game features 210 sound effects.[18]

[edit] Audio

Main article: Music of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

Yoko Shimomura (Parasite Eve, Legend of Mana, and the Kingdom Hearts series) composed the music for this game. She incorporated arrangements of music by Koji Kondo (Super Mario and the Legend of Zelda series) and Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy series) as part of the score. Three tracks from the Final Fantasy series appear.

The Super Mario RPG soundtrack was released on CD as Super Mario RPG Original Sound Version, with the code PSCN-5047 / PSCN-5048. The publisher was NTT. Although it contains 61 songs, the game features 73 tracks.[19]

[edit] Reception

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars received very good reviews, including an 8.75/10 from Electronic Gaming Monthly,[20], and audience-made "best game of all-time" lists consistently feature the game, such as 26th on GameFAQs[21] and 30th at IGN.[22] Japanese audiences also received Super Mario RPG well with 1.47 million copies sold, making it the third best selling game in Japan in 1996.[23]

Though various aspects of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars have received somewhat mixed opinions, the setting of the game have been well received overall and have garnered praise for the quality of the graphics and visual style in particular. Nintendo Power’s review claimed the excellent 3D graphics helped the game appeal to a much wider audience than most traditional RPGs. In March 1997, Nintendo Power nominated the game for several awards, including "Best Graphics", in a player's choice contest,[24] though Super Mario 64 won "Best Graphics".[25] 1UP.com praised the graphics, stating that they "are the best seen on the Super NES."[26] Electronic Gaming Monthly stated that "the graphic element is strong enough to resemble a Mario title but still retains the role-playing theme at the same time",[27] and commented that the "graphics of Mario RPG is typical of Nintendo, using clean and colorful graphics along with nice animation."[28]

[edit] Legacy

Officially, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars does not have a direct sequel, especially in terms of a sequel based on the original game's plot. Considering to be its thematic and, according to Adam Sessler of X-Play, a “spiritual sequel”,[29] two successive RPG-themed Mario series, the Paper Mario series and the Mario & Luigi series, followed certain conventions established in the original. For example, the use of "Flower Points" instead of Magic Points, timed action commands during battles, and the collection of the seven stars. In fact, Nintendo originally titled Paper Mario as Super Mario RPG 2.[30] Square's involvement in the original game made direct sequels legally impossible without Square's permission, involvement, or both, so Nintendo changed the title to Paper Mario.[31] Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga did feature the Geno doll,[32][33] with "Regardless of the above-mentioned, the copyright of Character "Geno", reserved by SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD." in the end credits.[34][35]

Some of the game's team members, including some from Square, went on to work on the Mario & Luigi series. These developers include the two directors Yoshihiko Maekawa and Chihiro Fujioka, as well as music composer Yoko Shimomura. However, they provided different styles and mechanics than those of Super Mario RPG.

Various locations and characters from the game appear in the children's book Mario and the Incredible Rescue released by Scholastic in 2006. [36]

In the June 2008 issue of Nintendo Power, Super Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Stars was revealed to be the #2 "Readers' Most Wanted" Virtual Console title.[47]

[edit] Rerelease and rumored sequel

On Wednesday, November 8, 2006, Mark Bozon of IGN provided an updated list of 2007 video game titles for Wii and wrote, “When it comes to gathering clues for potential Virtual Console titles, Nintendo isn't always the best source to get answers from. The company has its priorities during this holiday season, and for that reason fans have been looking elsewhere for details in regard to what the Wii's unique retro catalog will offer. The ESRB (Entertainment Software Ratings Board) has already helped us confirm multiple titles expected to hit Wii early next year, and we've received an updated list just this morning.”[6]

In the fall of 2007, The Virtual Console Archive changed the release information from “ESRB rated” to “(No longer) ESRB rated”, meaning the ESRB rated the game, but since removed it. However, The Virtual Console Archive does list the price at 800 Wii Points.[37]

On Friday, November 23, 2007, RPG Magazine’s issue number 5 wrote, “Square-Enix is considering bringing back Super Mario RPG by making a sequel on the DS. The sequel would include more characters from the Final Fantasy universe.”[38] However, there has been no such confirmation from either Nintendo or Square Enix.

On May 30, 2008, The Virtual Console Archive released information that Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars will be released on the Virtual Console in Japan in June of 2008 for a price of 900 Wii Points.[39]

On June 13, 2008 The Virtual Console Archive brought information that Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars has been rated by the OFLC indicating it will soon be released for the Australian Virtual Console, which could also mean that a European release might finally follow because both regions share the PAL format.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Scott Pelland; Kent Miller, Terry Munson & Paul Shinoda. "Epic Review", Nintendo Power, Nintendo, May 1996, pp. 56, 57, 59, 61. ISSN 1041-9551 OCLC 18893582. Retrieved on 2007-05-15. "…the sword–shaped Smithy plunged through the Bowser's Keep and unleashed havoc on the land. Mario teamed up with Mallow … to find the first of the seven missing Star Pieces. … Even more fantastic adventures await Mario and Mallow now, including an otherworldly traveler who reveals the secret of the stars. … Early in his quest, Mario received a map of the World from the Chancellor of the Mushroom Kingdom. Unfurl it whenever you want to see where you've been and where you're going. The world is so huge, though, that the map can't show the details of Mario's route. You can see those in the regional maps the adventures use when journeying from one part to another. … Despite a rather loose grip on the English language, Bowyer has marshaled an impressive army to battle Rose Town. … he's more than a bit annoyed when a scout shows up with one of the missing Star Pieces. When the living doll demands it back, he gets really mad. … The living doll, who calls himself Geno, says that Smithy has shattered the Star Road, causing the seven Star Pieces to fall to earth. … This mining town is rife with rumors about a Star Piece crashing into the nearby mountain. … To survive, they'll have to catch a falling Star Piece— pronto!" 
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    Mario! We've been expecting you. Please enter, the minister awaits." 
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  37. ^ Drake; deggs (2007-02-19). Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (Virtual Console) review. Virtual Console Reviews - The Virtual Console Archive. Archived from the original on 2007-08-10. Retrieved on 2007-10-19. “Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
    (Virtual Console - Super Nintendo)… Wii Points
    800… Release info: (No longer) ESRB rated… Drake… 19 Feb 2007… deggs - 19 Oct 2007… NO LONGER RATED”
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