2003 video game
2003 video game
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
[b]
is a 2003
role-playing game
developed by
AlphaDream
and published by
Nintendo
for the
Game Boy Advance
. It was re-released for the
Wii U
's
Virtual Console
in 2014,
Nintendo Switch
Online Service in 2023, and
remade
for the
Nintendo 3DS
as
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions
[c]
in 2017. In the game,
Mario
and
Luigi
travel to the Beanbean Kingdom in order to combat Cackletta and
Fawful
, who stole
Princess Peach
's voice for the purpose of harnessing the power of a special artifact called the Beanstar.
This game is the third role-playing game in the
Mario
franchise after
Super Mario RPG
and
Paper Mario
. Unlike those titles however,
Superstar Saga
features a lighthearted whimsical script and a greater emphasis on comedy. The player controls Mario and Luigi simultaneously as they traverse the overworld, fight enemies, gain experience points, and find new items and gear. The battle system differs from traditional games of the genre, with more emphasis on timing and elaborate attacks called Action Commands.
[5]
Created by
Shigeru Miyamoto
, Tetsuo Mizuno, and
Satoru Iwata
, the game was announced at
E3 2003
, later releasing the same year.
Superstar Saga
was critically acclaimed, with reviewers praising the game's writing, tone and its battle system, but criticized its gameplay for lacking innovation in the genre and the top-down perspective received mixed reactions. Critics listed the game among the best games on the Game Boy Advance, and was labeled as
Player's Choice
. A Nintendo 3DS remake was released in 2017 and features updated graphics and music,
amiibo
functionality, and other quality-of-life improvements. It also features a new exclusive side story titled
Minion Quest: The Search for Bowser
. The original game was released as part of the
Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack
in February 2023.
[6]
Gameplay
[
edit
]
The gameplay of
Mario & Luigi
differs from most other role-playing games due to its focus on controlling
Mario
and
Luigi
simultaneously. During overworld sections, the directional pad controls one of the brothers' movement with the other one following closely. The leading brother can be switched between Mario and Luigi with the Start button. The brothers' other actions are controlled individually with the A (front character) and B (rear character) buttons respectively.
[7]
The game begins with them being able to jump independently, and they gain access to hammers and a variety of other techniques as the game progresses. For example, Luigi's hammer can be used to squash Mario into a smaller size, allowing the latter to access small gaps, while placing Mario on Luigi's shoulders allows them to act like a propeller and hover across large gaps.
[8]
Various enemies roam the overworld, and coming into contact with these enemies initiates a battle. Landing a hit on an enemy while on the overworld allows the player to deal pre-emptive damage or begin the fight with them stunned. The opposite is also possible.
Battles in
Superstar Saga
are turn-based. Mario and Luigi are controlled with the A and B buttons respectively, regardless of their placement in the overworld. They can attack normally by jumping on enemies (available from the start), by hitting them with their hammers or by using their hand powers (after these abilities are unlocked at successive points in the game's story). Jump attacks allow the brothers to hit enemies from above, but will cause them to take damage if attempting to jump on spiked or flame-covered creatures. Hammer attacks can harm enemies on the ground, but will always miss against winged or floating ones. Finally, each brother has an elemental hand attack (fire for Mario and thunder for Luigi), with several enemies being either vulnerable or resistant to either element.
Similar to previous Mario role-playing titles, such as
Super Mario RPG
and the
Paper Mario
series, players can time button presses to make their attacks more effective, such as earning an extra jump attack or increasing the hammer's power.
[9]
Introduced in this series is the way in which Mario and Luigi can defend themselves during an enemy's attack. When an enemy attacks, the brothers can either jump or use their hammer which, when successfully timed, allows them to dodge their attacks and even deal counter damage (for example: if they jump on top of a charging Goomba).
Throughout the game, players can unlock Bros. Attacks, which use Bros. Points (BP) which requires players to cooperate between Mario and Luigi's actions to perform powerful combination attacks.
[5]
[10]
Mario and Luigi have their own HP, and one of them will faint when their HP is reduced to zero, with the other brother carrying him when dodging, countering or fleeing from the battle, but Bros. Attacks are unusable until the unconscious brother is revived or some negative status effects are removed. Players can also use items such as mushrooms for healing, peppers for boosting stats and 1UP mushrooms for reviving fallen Bros.
Defeating enemies earns experience points which help the Bros. level up and increase their stats, with players given the option to further increase the stats of one attribute every time they level up. Players can further improve their stats by equipping new gear to the Bros. or making them wear badges that give them special attributes.
Like other
Mario
titles for the Game Boy Advance,
Superstar Saga
features the enhanced remake of the
Mario Bros.
arcade game, which was used in the four
Super Mario Advance
titles.
[11]
[12]
The game also supports rumble functionality when used with the
GameCube
's
Game Boy Player
accessory.
[7]
Plot
[
edit
]
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
is largely set in the Beanbean Kingdom, a country neighboring the
Mario
series' usual setting of the
Mushroom Kingdom
,
[13]
mainly populated by Beanish people and Hoohooligans, with many locations named after onamotapoeia representing laughter. The player characters are brothers
Mario
and
Luigi
, who travel to the Beanbean Kingdom to return the voice of
Peach
, the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom, after it is stolen by the Beanish witch Cackletta and her henchman Fawful. Among other characters are Queen Bean and Prince Peasley of the Beanbean Kingdom, who assist Mario and Luigi; and the thief Popple, who crosses paths with them throughout the game.
Cackletta and Fawful, disguised as ambassadors of the Beanbean Kingdom, visit Princess Peach's castle in the Mushroom Kingdom and steal her voice, replacing it with explosives that drop from her
speech balloon
when she talks. Mario and Luigi are summoned to the castle, and briefly confront
Bowser
, who had intended to kidnap Peach, but decides against it due to her explosive speech. The three team up to retrieve Peach's voice, and fly to the Beanbean Kingdom on Bowser's new airship, the Koopa Cruiser. Mid-flight, Fawful attacks them, and Bowser becomes separated from Mario and Luigi after a crash landing on the Mushroom Kingdom side of the Beanbean Kingdom border and being launched from a cannon. After crossing the border and traveling through the Beanbean Kingdom by foot, Mario and Luigi meet Prince Peasley and save him from a spell cast by Cackletta.
The brothers are invited to the Beanbean Kingdom castle, where Cackletta ? disguised as the royal advisor Lady Lima ? tricks them into helping her steal the Beanstar, a mystical item that when awoken by a noble and beautiful voice will grant any wish. Upon freeing Queen Bean from being transformed into a savage beast by Cackletta, the brothers track Cackletta to Woohoo Hooniversity and find her exposing the Beanstar to the stolen voice, causing it to go berserk. Mario and Luigi battle Cackletta, fatally injuring her; Fawful uses his vacuum-equipped helmet to save her soul. Mario and Luigi locate the Beanstar again, which Popple is trying to steal together with an amnesiac Bowser as his sidekick; when it again is exposed to Peach's voice, it shoots into the sky and explodes, scattering across the kingdom. Peach arrives by airport in the Beanbean Kingdom, and Mario and Luigi learn that
Birdo
had been used as a
political decoy
during Cackletta's visit; the Beanstar became enraged after hearing Birdo's voice.
Fawful finds Bowser after he regains his memory, albeit weakened from the Beanstar's explosion, and places Cackletta's soul inside him; she takes control of the body, and takes the name Bowletta. She kidnaps Peach, and demands the Beanstar as ransom; Mario and Luigi collect the pieces, and meet with her in the frozen palace Joke's End to make the exchange. Bowletta refuses to return Peach, so Luigi disguises himself as Peach to be taken in her stead, and reclaims the Beanstar, returning it with Mario to Queen Bean after a final confrontation with Popple, who is later arrested and forced to do community service in Little Fungitown, a community of Mushroom Kingdom immigrants. Bowletta uses Bowser's flying castle to attack the Beanbean Kingdom. Mario and Luigi navigate their way through the castle, expel Fawful, and battle Bowletta. After she vacuums them inside her stomach, they battle Cackletta's soul and exorcise her from Bowser's body, reducing her to nothing and returning Bowser to normal. Peasley blows up the flying castle while the brothers escape. Mario, Luigi, and Peach receive Bowser as a parting gift before taking an airplane home to the Mushroom Kingdom, dropping Bowser off at his new castle mid-flight.
Development and marketing
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edit
]
Superstar Saga
, developed by
AlphaDream
and directed by
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
co-director Yoshihiko Maekawa, is said to take its inspiration from the
Nintendo 64
game
Paper Mario
;
[13]
[14]
the two games have similar graphics and gameplay.
[15]
[16]
The producers of the game were
Shigeru Miyamoto
, the creator of the
Mario
franchise, Tetsuo Mizuno, and
Satoru Iwata
, the president of Nintendo.
[17]
The voice acting for Mario and Luigi in the game is provided by
Charles Martinet
, well known for providing the characters' voice in Nintendo's
Mario
franchise.
[14]
The game's music was composed by
Yoko Shimomura
, who also previously composed the soundtrack for
Super Mario RPG
.
[18]
Superstar Saga
was revealed at
E3 2003
under the name
Mario and Luigi
, where a playable demo of the game was available;
[19]
the demo was later
dumped
and leaked online in October 2023, two decades later.
[20]
In August and September 2003, a playable demonstration was also available at the
European Computer Trade Show
, the
Games Convention
, and Nintendo Gamers' Summit.
[14]
[21]
[22]
To link in with the game's comedic themes, Nintendo organized an official competition between October and November 2003 in which contestants would try to submit the best
knock-knock joke
to win a
Game Boy Advance SP
and a copy of the game. Nintendo employed comedian
Kathy Griffin
to choose the winner.
[23]
Reception
[
edit
]
Superstar Saga
received "universal acclaim", according to the
review aggregator
Metacritic
.
[25]
The game's comical dialog and themes in particular were lauded by critics.
Eurogamer
's Tom Bramwell commented that "each line of dialogue and identifiable cameo is handled with a loving sense of humour."
[13]
Despite this, RPGamer's Andrew Long labelled the plot as repetitive, and the game's characters as "a tad shallow".
[52]
While also appreciating references to the heritage of the
Mario
series,
[53]
critics praised the game for avoiding cliches common in previous games of the
Mario
series.
[13]
The gameplay attained a mixed reception. Critics enjoyed the game's battle system, which deviated from
role-playing game
tradition.
[7]
IGN
's Craig Harris commented that "unlike most Japanese RPGs Mario & Luigi's turn-based battle involves the player at all times".
[54]
Despite this novel approach to combat situations, some reviewers thought that the overall gameplay lacked innovation.
[55]
[56]
GameSpy
in particular criticized the game for an apparent lack of originality, commenting that "in terms of gameplay, there isn't much there that we haven't seen in the NES and SNES
Mario
and
Zelda
titles."
[55]
Furthermore, some reviewers were disappointed by a perceived lack of difficulty in the gameplay as a result of targeting a younger audience.
[56]
Edge
and other gaming publications have criticized the controls for being occasionally confusing when considering the usage of jumping, hammers, and other combinations between the two characters.
[57]
A common concern among reviewers is the overhead perspective, which critics have bemoaned for preventing them from judging pathway routes and an object's location in relation to its background.
[54]
Besides this, the actual visuals were generally well received,
[7]
[13]
as well as the setting and animations. The audio was commended for combining both originality and nostalgia, even though it looped frequently.
[7]
GameSpot
named
Superstar Saga
the best Game Boy Advance game of November 2003.
[58]
During the
AIAS
'
7th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards
,
Superstar Saga
was nominated for
Handheld Game of the Year
.
[59]
In 2006,
Superstar Saga
was rated the 37th best game made on a Nintendo System in
Nintendo Power
'
s Top 200 Games list.
[60]
In the same year, the game became part of the
Player's Choice
label.
[61]
In 2007, the game was named the twelfth best Game Boy Advance game of all time in IGN
'
s feature reflecting on the Game Boy Advance's long lifespan.
[62]
In the United States alone,
Superstar Saga
sold 1,000,000 copies and earned $30,000,000 by August 2006. During the period between January 2000 and August 2006, it was the 14th highest-selling game launched for the
Game Boy Advance
,
Nintendo DS
or
PlayStation Portable
in that country.
[63]
As of 2007,
Superstar Saga
has sold over 441,000 units in Japan and 1,460,000 in the United States.
[64]
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Remake
[
edit
]
2017 video game
A
remake
of
Superstar Saga
for
Nintendo 3DS
,
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions
,
[c]
was announced at
E3 2017
. The remake features updated graphics, maintaining the use of sprites, but with additional lighting effects akin to
Dream Team
and
Paper Jam
,
as well as a remastered soundtrack and various quality-of-life improvements that were introduced in later entries of the series, such as the ability to save the game at any time, and to fast-forward cutscenes, among others. The game also features
Amiibo
functionality, tied to the existing Boo and new Goomba and Koopa Troopa figures. The game was released in October 2017.
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Plot
[
edit
]
The plot of the remake remains the same as the original game, but also features an additional storyline,
Minion Quest: The Search for Bowser
, which follows Captain Goomba and features a real-time strategy battle system.
Minion Quest: The Search for Bowser
[
edit
]
In the Koopa Cruiser, Bowser's airship traveling to the Beanbean Kingdom, two Goombas, Captain Goomba and Private Goomp, trapped inside barrels become allies in order to give the Goombas their deserved reputation by ceasing slavery by the Koopalings. However, Bowser's airship is crashed by Fawful. Captain Goomba awakens on Hoohoo Mountain and decides to rescue Bowser after witnessing him being shot from a cannon. Captain Goomba gathers an army and starts his search.
Upon learning that some of the minions ? including Private Goomp ? were brainwashed by Fawful trying to rescue Bowser and that his mission is in direct competition with the Koopalings, Captain Goomba confronts Fawful, only to fall off the mountain. Realizing Fawful is too powerful, Captain Goomba allies once more with Private Goomp and forms a new army; the army travels across all the kingdom to recruit others to their cause. Meanwhile, the Koopalings get brainwashed by Fawful. Saving Larry, the latter joins them on the condition of finding the six other Koopalings.
With Larry and Wendy on their side, the Minion's Army arrives back at Hoohoo Mountain, witnessing an amnesiac Bowser being recruited by Popple as his "Rookie". The Minions pursue Popple ? saving Morton in the process ? and find he has lost Bowser, who has become possesed by Cackletta, now going by Bowletta. The army finds Roy and Bowser's airship. Upon repairing it, they learn from Fawful that Bowletta is in Bowser's Castle. The Minions fly there and recruit the remaining Koopalings, gaining the respect the Goombas always wanted.
Bowser's army fully complete, the Minions confront Fawful and his "Mecha" army; Bowser's army emerges victorious, Fawful fleeing to join Bowletta. However, both are defeated by the Mario Bros. Bowser's Castle explodes, and Bowser, back to normal, returns to his domain with the army. Bowser promotes Captain Goomba but then remembers he caused his amnesia and starts to pursue him in anger.
Notes
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edit
]
- ^
Minigames developed by
Vanpool
[4]
- ^
Known in Japan as
Mario & Luigi RPG
(
Japanese
:
マリオ&ルイ?ジRPG
,
Hepburn
:
Mario ando Ru?ji ?ru P? J?
)
- ^
a
b
Known in Japan as
Mario & Luigi RPG 1 DX
(
マリオ&ルイ?ジRPG1
DX
,
Mario ando Ru?ji ?ru P? J? Wan Derakkusu
)
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