#i hope the physical cart comes with a printed manual like japan's getting; the OG manual was great and written entirely by luigi iirc

[holmoris]

spoilerfree (snes/trailer content only) super mario rpg remake impressions because i just did the entire thing in one sitting because it leaked and it's in my top five ever:

difficulty is way lower than the original, play whatever weird team comp you want, the mario/peach/ meta is dead. also mallow actually does damage now! it's a christmas miracle

outside combat it's probably the most faithful remake i've seen in decades for better or worse, it's about 95% the same as the original which isn't a bad thing at all, it's even got Ted Woolsey's script with minimal changes

some of the new remixes are absolute bangers but one very specific important one sucks intensely compared to the original, you'll know it when you hear it

the combat changes are a mixed bag and the team supermoves are very, very powerful. Run mario/bowser/geno and you basically handicap every boss

it's very difficult to fall behind in flower points, there seem to be way more flowers around than in the original so you aren't handicapping yourself if you screw up booster hill or midas falls the first time

status effects (especially bowser's Fear spell) are way more effective than they used to be

THEY RENAMED MACK TO A THROCKMORTON JOKE. WHY

there is postgame (complete with saving a clear file and reloading after smithy) but i'm not playing it until my physical copy shows up since I rushed through this on a switch that isn't mine

everything you'd think they'd remove for censorship reasons is still there.. except for mario's peace sign, which is gone and makes the scene where he talks to monstermama and conveys 'piece' with a peace sign very confusing

booster's crying animation is absolutely incredible in 3D tl;dr : if you haven't played SMRPG previously this is a great adaptation and does right by the original, if you have you might be slightly disoriented but you're still going to have a good time.