GAME JOURNALS CONTAIN SPOILERS. DEAL WITH IT PINK BOY.
Superstar Saga is a Mario RPG for the Game Boy Advance. I loved Paper Mario and Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. So I decided to dip into the back catalog. I have a Game Cube Game Boy Advance player, so I can play it on my big old projection TV, which saves on eyestrain. But it still makes for boring blog posts. I'm trying to take pictures to make it more visually exciting, but they don't look very good.
Still, it's better than nothing.
In this scene we see Mario and Luigi getting ready to escort Princess Peach across a desert full of mushroom mummy bandits. She follows a set path, and if she leaves the screen, she gets kidnapped. I enjoyed how it turned the trope of her always getting kidnapped into a joke and part of the game. Actually, one of the interesting things about the Paper Mario RPGs was how you'd actually play segments as Peach, sneaking around the bad guys' fort and gathering intel. She was usually still the damsel in distress, never going so far as to actually escape on her own, but giving her something to do that mattered was still a huge step forward.
Speaking of which, Luigi gets a little more attention than usual in Superstar Saga as well. Mario has bean fever and Luigi has to go get the cure. But he's so scared by the prospect of mummies and monsters he has to go get hypnotized into thinking he's Mario before he can actually set out on his own.
Baby steps, Luigi. Baby steps.
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