Mario and Mallow now head to Mallow's home, Tadpole Pond. Mario takes it, not quite knowing what it is. Mario and Mallow enter the Mushroom Castle and meet with Mack, a member of the Smithy Gang, in the throne room. When they return, Mushroom Kingdom is dark and overrun by monsters. Mario assists him by chasing after Croco, a thief, to recover a frog coin that was stolen from Mallow. After talking with the chancellor, he meets Mallow, apparently a frog from Tadpole Pond. Mario and Toad then travel to Mushroom Kingdom to inform the Chancellor of the Princess's kidnapping.
Exor destroys the bridge and Mario narrowly escapes. However, when he arrives he is unable to enter the castle and Exor, the giant sword, tells Mario that the keep is now the property of the Smithy Gang, taken over to help with its quest to take over the world. Mario has no idea where she or Bowser are, but goes to check the castle. When Toad discovers that the princess is not there, he asks Mario to go back to Bowser's Keep to bring her back. Mario ends up landing back at his house where Toad has been searching for Toadstool. Mario views the damage done to Bowser's Keep by Exor. 12.2 Mario + 7 stars + 249 Virtual Console titles = ?.Super Mario RPG is also one of the 21 titles included on the Super NES Classic Edition. The game costs 800 Wii Points in North America and Japan, and 900 points in other regions. In Europe, the game is treated as an import game, meaning that only the 60Hz mode is supported, and there has been no further localization. The game was also re-released for the Wii U's Virtual Console in Japan in August 2015, in Europe and Australia in December 2015, and in North America in June 2016. The game was re-released on the Wii's Virtual Console in Japan on June 24, 2008, in Europe and Australia on August 22, and in North America on September 1, 2008. It was one of the last games in Square's original deal with Nintendo, and the final Mario game on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Super Mario RPG's success was limited due to the release of the Nintendo 64 and Super Mario 64 four months later that year. In this game, Mario, with the help of Mallow, Geno, Bowser, and Princess Toadstool, needs to stop the Smithy Gang, while collecting seven Star Pieces so that peace may return and wishes may be granted once more. It is the first Mario role-playing game, with an action-command battle system.
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The game spawned the Mario RPG series, and two successive RPG-themed spiritual sequels followed: the Paper Mario series and the Mario & Luigi series, both of which use certain conventions established in the original.Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (also called Super Mario RPG: Secret of the Seven Stars or simply Super Mario RPG) is a role playing video game designed by Square (currently Square Enix) and released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1996. The game was well-received upon release, and it was praised particularly for its 3D rendered graphics and humor. Square did much of the development of Super Mario RPG under direct guidance from producer Shigeru Miyamoto.
Super Mario RPG was the final Mario game released for the system as well as one of the last games Square produced for Nintendo hardware until Chocobo Land: A Game of Dice in 2002. Yoko Shimomura composed the game's score, which was released on a soundtrack album in Japan shortly after the game's debut. Super Mario RPG was directed by Yoshihiko Maekawa and Chihiro Fujioka and produced by Shigeru Miyamoto. The game features five permanent playable characters. Smithy has stolen the seven star pieces of Star Road where all the world's inhabitants' wishes become Wish Stars, and Mario must return the pieces so these wishes may again be granted. The story focuses on Mario and his teammates as they seek to eliminate the game's main antagonist, Smithy.
The game contains token similarities to other Square role-playing video games, such as the Final Fantasy series, with a story and action-based gameplay derived from the Super Mario Bros. It is the first role-playing video game in the Mario series. Nintendo ported the game, with minor differences, to the Wii's Virtual Console service in 2008 to regions around the world.
It was originally released on Main Japan and on in North America. Super Mario RPG (スーパーマリオRPG Sūpā Mario Āru Pī Jī?), subtitled Legend of the Seven Stars in the North American release, is an action role-playing game developed by Square (now Square Enix) and published by Nintendo for the Super Famicom and Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).