Nintendo removing Super Mario RPG was the true loss Vizzed received. If I couldn't have played this when I was a newbie, I'd have been sorely disappointed. Thank you Nintendo, for stopping me from enjoying in the RGR. (Without using my own ROM at least.)

Norriegirl93 : Speaking of taking games with you. I'm a handheld nut. So handhelds with emulation are pretty cool to me.

Ever hear of the GPD XD? It's pretty rad for everything before the GameCube/PS2/Xbox era. Except N64 for some reason.

Pacman+Mariofan : Sticker Star is the bane of my existence. Can't really agree on that front. They took away XP, so you have no reason to fight enemies. Boss battles are also won by randomly finding items earlier in the level, so there's no real strategy to them. Then most egregiously, they took out just about every character who isn't from the Mario Universe, making every NPC a generic Toad, and half the boss fights are Goombas. There's so much more that just stopped me from finishing that game as well. I've heard Color Splash was somewhat better, but I'm just waiting for them to add badges back and such.

Pacman+Mariofan : There's a lot of substance in your post.

For starters, I enjoyed Super Paper Mario, I think it was very nice. The helpers in it weren't all that interesting, but it still had level ups, and it had the charming unique characters we both spoke of. I personally don't like it as much as the other Mario RPG's either, I'm a turn based person, but many people love it, and I can see why. I can't see the same for Sticker Star though, as I'll continue to touch on here.

Another issue with Sticker Star as you'll find, is that they lean in hard on the paper gimmick. These games all had a lot of little gags in them, but it's as if they replaced the story with neat little visuals. Let's not forget that Sticker Star has almost zero meaningful dialogue between the start and conclusion of the game. Compare this to any other Mario RPG, and you'll see you're usually talking to almost everyone. These RPG's fill the world with characters you can actually find interesting, but you can't do that with only Toads, at least not very well anyway. There is something that works in its defense though, while simultaneously distancing me from it even more. This game essentially isn't even a Mario RPG. It was stated that since Mario & Luigi is around, we don't need two Mario RPG series, and that has a lot to do with why it turned out the way it did. It is by all accounts, a turn based adventure game. This would honestly be completely fine with me, if they had stuck to platforming, and kept the battles out of it. They're pointless, and you probably could've made the boss' more interesting if you did incorporate platforming. Besides these, I really just can't get into the OST, which is strange considering I love music played on horns, and I hate the over world map. SMRPG used a map where you pick location, presumably to save space. How were they supposed to fit a giant world you can explore in with all the other content? It already had boundary pushing graphics. However, with Sticker Star, they're essentially just emulating a NSMB map. It makes me want to play a normal Mario game, why would I play a Mario RPG that's almost like normal Mario, but way slower paced? Not to mention, the map is significantly more interesting in SMRPG, from what I've seen anyway. The plus side is that since this technically isn't a Mario RPG, it can't be compared on the same playing field, so people can defend it with that.

Anyway, M&L may be gone forever, so I hope they veer towards a more RPG direction with those now. Speaking of platforming also, those games have quite a bit of it.