Super Mario RPG
 

If not for the existence of Chrono Trigger, I would consider Super Mario RPG the perfect game.

It has multiple playstyles and a unique setting, original characters and ideas while sticking true to both RPG and mario world settings.

If you have never played this game, do so.

Back in elementary school, Super Mario Bros. was all the rage between me and my friend, and we all had nicknames based on bosses from the game.
Smithy, Johnny, Bowyer, Axem, and myself... Neosquid... yeah.
I got the short end of the shtick.

I didnt find the game that great. It was fun, but it felt lacking. Then again, I have never been big on Mario. I feel it had a great gameplay engine, just the theme was meh, for me anyways.

This was the game that introduced me to RPG's. I can honestly say I don't know how many times I beat it, but I do know I have beaten it with every party combination available.

Mild OCD aside, I have nothing but fond memories of the game.

My only regret is that the Axem Ranger fight was horribly complex despite only giving like 15 EXP.

But yes fantastic game.

I found that... completely hilarious.

I loved the game, but the Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi sagas nailed the comedy, while I thought SMRPG lacked quite a lot of it.

SMRPG!!!!
God that was a great game until I gave all my old-school nintendo stuff to my frriend.
*sigh* Mellow, Geno...my favorites.

Great game, supposedly coming to the Virtual Console. I thought it was better than Paper Mario, which I played recently, by a small fraction, but really, I consider them to be equals since Paper Mario was every bit as much fun.

I didn't like that part of the game where you have to climb the cliff at Land's End, though, because in the yesteryear before GameFaqs I had no real idea how to get there and didn't even know it existed prior to the paratroopa guy going, "We'll meet you at the cliff at Land's End!" like as if I was supposed to know what he was talking about. For a game that had been perfectly linear up until that point in keeping with it being accessible to kids, it seemed stupid. So the first time I rented this game I didn't beat it.

Oh, and the fight with Exor was pretty much unwinnable if you didn't have any Wake-Up Pins (and didn't know that Geno Whirl had a bug in it in that fight allowing you to do 9999 damage to bosses), and they decided that there didn't need to be a way to leave Bowser's Keep until after said fight. So, yeah, twenty hours down the drain. This was the second time I rented it.

Finally the third time I rented it I beat the thing. It really was an incredibly enjoyable game to be so enthralling through three playthroughs. The timed action commands in battle pretty much made it keep it's appeal when any other RPG would've never been played again. Oh, and the level cap at level 30 kept the final boss battle from being easy, that was good, too. In its way (in some other RPG it would've been lame but in a fairly easy kid's RPG it was fine with me).

Oh man. Super Mario RPG is awesome. It ranks right up there with those other SNES RPGs I love (Chrono Trigger, FF6, and Earthbound) It must be the twisted part inside of me, but I thought the whole Booster part was hilarious.

I still reference it, even when nobody else knows what I'm talking about.
"My dear, you're leaking! ...Mmm! Salty!"

Plus Bowser is awesome. Call me stereotypical, but my party usually consisted of Mario, Peach, and Bowser.

It wasn't a bug.
It was intentional.

Really? They should have mentioned it, then, because I didn't beat the game that time because of it. Stupid Wake-Up Pins...I guess they could say it was intentional because it supposedly only worked in that fight, but it's not as if they then went the extra mile and TOLD people they could use it in an in-game hint or something.