Where To Buy Super Mario RPG On Switch

Oh, I didn't realise the price had been announced. I've got it on SNES and (I've just discovered) SNES Classic Mini, so I won't be getting at that price it unless it adds something new. Glad it'll be easier for others to play though.

Full price, of course. Might get it anyway, though I kind of want a Japanese copy.

[insert Graphic design is my passion meme here]

@Vil : Japanese support will be on the cartridge no matter whether you pick up a Japanese or a European copy.

Where to Preorder: Everywhere

Oh no, the box art is actually super disappointing. 🙁

@tgt my thoughts exactly

Great pickup for others who have no other way to experience it though!

@canaryfarmer Everywhere except Canada apparently. Wonder why there's no links to buy it here. Canada is a real country that exists.

Expected full price. It's getting the Link's Awakening level of treatment so that is fair.

I wonder why they dropped the "Legend of the Seven Stars" title from the game?

@Sisilly_G I just want the Japanese cover.

@Mauzuri
It’s almost identical to the Japanese SFC box art.

@Bobb : [Hayden Christensen smirk]

No I won't be getting it. I have it on the SNES mini, and it's not a game I play very often. I stopped at the haunted ship. Wonder why they didn't add Legend of the Seven Stars subtitle? The level scaling should have been better on the SNES then it is. Hopefully they'll fix that.

So basically, you can pre-order at all the same places as every other game. Im not sure if any of these are my perfered retailer but it'll do. Whooo, somebody done went to the Wal-Mart!

I am not thrilled about the price, but Super Mario RPG was my gateway into RPGs, even when I grew up playing the original Dragon Quest. It was this game that taught me as a kid that Dragon Quest wasn't "unique", but there was an entire genre out there to explore.

And more than the game? I'm on board for the remastered soundtrack. Yoko Shimomura's music is fantastic in the original, and what little was played during the trailer has me STOKED.

I am looking forward to getting it but I am curious why this gets a remake and not the classic main games like Super Mario Bros 1, 2 and 3 and Super Mario World. If they remade some of the Gameboy games too like Super Mario Land 1, 2 and 3 they would look incredibly different with modern graphics and get a lot of first time players who never played them before.

There's no, I'll repeat, NO way this is the box art. It would be as lazy as not making new games and just rereleasing games over and over again, or at best updating their graphics in order to make money.

To those that might defend it being similar to the Japanese boxart, that was 1996 where it was so incredible to actually have graphics like those in a video game it was borderline miraculous. This is 2023. While the new graphics look great they aren't so amazing that they deserve to be the only thing featured on the box art.

I'll add, 5 years ago you could have purchased this game and 20 others plus 2 controllers and an HDMI cord for $20 more than the price of this game.

I'll further add, this game is great so if you really care about graphics get it, but I'd still prefer a used SNES Mini if I didn't have one already.

The boxart is okay, the characters look great. But it does still look a bit basic. Maybe they'll change it a little later, or else that really is the boxart.

It could do with a background or something.

This is one game I'll be getting. New graphics, redone music. The price is a little high if they don't add anything else, but otherwise sounds good to me.

That's pretty tempting. I wonder if its release date would allow it to get in on black Friday/cyber Monday sales? Cant even remember how much in general Ninty gets in on those

Full price for an old snes game? It’s a great game, but bugger off Nintendo.

Really surprised Metroid Prime dropped at $40 and this is $60, while both Pikmin games are $50 combined when purchased as a set.

Sixty bucks? There'd better be some new features

@Clammy
$20 base game

• $10 Switch portability tax
• $10 HD upgrade
• $10 Nintendo attorney/general counsel fee
• $10 a drink for Miyamoto

It's still five months away from release.

Maybe with enough backlash, Nintendo might consider changing the cover art.

It's certainly not the worst cover that I've ever seen, but it smacks of placeholder chic.

Hopefully that is not the cover art, please say its just a place holder.
I will get it, but going travelling September until February so will get it after that as need all the money I can get at the moment.

Taking into account the game is better than 95% of the games in market the price is justified. It is a remake after all, not a snes port.

That's the final box art, huh? I mean, I get that it's a callback to the original box, but... Maybe some kind of background? Anything at all?

UK shoppers, anyone else unable to access shopto? I get this error

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Oh boy. That box art is horrendous.

@Duncanballs Doesn't look like Link's Awakening level of care to me. Then again I think LA was overpriced at $60 too.

It’s fairly shocking to see it at that price. I was expecting $40. It’s not a very long game, despite being such a fantastic RPG.

I don’t have a problem with the box art. It’s a callback. Also… it’s just box art.

@RudeAnimat0r looks fairly good to me. Im happy with the price for the amount of effort likely to go into the remake.

These are pre order prices, so I expect UK for release will be £40.

@CammyUnofficial I'll take ten

@Dom_31 It's a homage to the original Japanese cover, although that one had Yoshi who was not a party member.

@CammyUnofficial I'd glady get Miyamoto a drink.

@ryancraddock 👍Thank you! 😃

Of course the cover is ugly. Oh well, pre-ordering anyway.

@Browny It's a bad price, but I'll pay it just to show my support for the IP.

@JohnnyMind

Think it looks a lot better in landscape.

@pennylessz @Browny

My logic is always this ... if someone from Nintendo came to my house and asked me to just flat out give them $70 so they could keep making game ... I would absolutely give them $70.

So, might as well get a game out of it ...

Also if you think the game is too expensive. Buy a couple of vouchers for €100 (or equivalent) and buy the game that way. At least it will save you €10.

I did this with Wonder as well. And both games being €60, giving me a saving of €20. That is 1/3 of a game.

"But I want the game physical"
Then search the web for a cheap webshop. Usually I can find games between €50 - €55 easily. Giving a similar saving.

Funny, I love the box art. Also I don't mind one bit that it's full price. It's a complete rework, a lengthy game, and a fantastic one. Where's the problem?

Any word about an interesting preorder bonus from Nintendo? Like what they had for Mario Wonder?

This boxart feels like the designer woke up in the morning and suddenly realized he had to finish a boxart for Mario RPG by the end of the day. Fast designed this in panic, labeled it as a retro homage during the presentation, and it somehow got the thumbs up.

Holding out until some retailer announces a preorder bonus for this game.

Everything about this looks like a very middling remake. Some of the environments just look straight up ugly. I won't be purchasing this.

@NintendoWife Ikr, the simple boxart is nice imo.
No word on a Nintendo Pre-order bonus so far, the only one that I know of is from Gamestop and its just some pins.

Despite the slightly boring box art, I'm very excited to experience this classic for the first time! I could never sit through the original version because the graphics were just too blurry and jumbled for me to make any thing out. I'm so hyped! The cutscenes added look adorable!

P.S.: I understand that the graphics were revolutionary for the time, and I get that but the way they look in the game hasn't aged well. I've seen renders with the models before they were compressed into 16 bit and they're beautiful! So choosing to translate everything into modernity without any compression is awesome.

@Dom_31 I agree. The cover art is simple in a bad way.

I'm gonna buy 'Star Ocean The Second Story R' over this. The box art and price solidified my choice.

Not worth $60 in 2023. Fun game, just not a lot of game, especially at that price.

For me buying physical, a nice boxart has a lot of appeal... that one has lazyness written all over it

Mario RPG deserved better

There's a pre order bonus through Nintendo Store UK:

https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2023/October/You-can-now-pre-order-Super-Mario-RPG-on-My-Nintendo-Store-and-receive-a-key-chain-and-acrylic-standee-as-bonus-items-with-purchase--2470358.html#:~:text=A%20bundle%20containing%20the%20Super,as%20bonus%20items%20with%20purchase.

I've tried to inform Nintendo Life directly,
but the website doesn't work.

P.S.
a Mario RPG Tetris 99 theme is also coming.

Kind of a bummer there are no collector's editions for this remake and the only preorder bonus I could find in Canada was at GS stores and it's just a set of buttons that anybody could make with a button-maker and colour printer. That said I still love the game, I played it all the time growing up on the SNES & again when I got myself a SNES Classic a few years ago. I'm still getting this game but I will be wrapping it up and putting it under the Christmas tree for my spouse (& I'll play it as well obviously).

I actually have this on my wish list. I do have the original on the wii back when club Nintendo was a thing (RIP) but playing a remake that I can play anywhere is IMO worth the price of admission.
Here’s to hoping the game has a reversible cover like advance wars reboot camp.

I pre-ordered it on the eShop with one of those voucher things.

Looking forward to playing the remake as never completed the original on the Wii virtual console. Hopefully it will be cheaper in February when I get back home. Also really wish the UK/EU version would have the manual just like the Japan version. But hey such is life

@Bunkerneath The JP one doesn't have the manual. It's something you can buy, but it doesn't come with the package.

@Daniel36 the 'manual' that they talk about in the article is a free booklet you can get from any of the Nintendo Stores in Japan for free. I have two of them in my hand right now

@Bunkerneath Ah, guess I misread it in the previous article then. My apologies.