>>12511219
Platformers are better than RPGs as a genre, this is obvious..so why is paper Mario so good to you?

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Paper Mario is special because it let's players explore the world of mario with JRPG interactivity. It's also one of the few JRPG's to embrace an anachronistic fantasy world, the others being Earthbound and Undertale. It's a world with castles and kingdoms, celestial palaces and magical lands, but also computers and robots, as well as passenger trains and wizards, all wrapped up with an earnest worldbuilding of familiar Mario World characters... but suddenly given JRPG style lore. We get to know about Toad culture or Goomba lifestyle.

Nintendo's wisdom of bringing interactivity and mini-game like challenges to the turn based combat also elevates the whole thing even higher.

JRPG's live or die on two things: is the turn based combat system fun and is the world interesting to explore. There's something really fascinating and surprising about exploring Paper Mario worlds, always something unexpected or funny or strange around every corner... a feeling that is less prevalent in a typical fantasy JRPG with knights and kingdoms and familiar tropes.

I hate to be the “baby game” guy but the mario & luigi series is for actual children and is always a slog. Bowsers inside story is the best but is also a bit of a slog

>>12512252
Mario and luigi is way harder than both smrpg and paper mario though

>>12512205
I can't deal with Nintendrones.