Super Mario RPG Gets Big Discount At Amazon

If you're looking to get into the Mario RPG mood ahead of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door's release next month, Super Mario RPG would serve as the perfect primer. The modernized version of the beloved SNES RPG is on sale for a fantastic price at Amazon. You can snag Super Mario RPG for only $44.80. This deal went live earlier this week and is still available, which is a bit surprising. Walmart is selling Mario RPG for the same price; or, if you don't mind buying from a third-party seller, you can snag the game for only $40.

Incredibly faithful to the beloved original, Super Mario RPG is a charming Switch game enhanced with several quality-of-life changes that make it more approachable to newcomers. Mario RPG veterans will appreciate the series of post-game fights that really test your prowess. Beyond those additions and tweaks, Super Mario RPG on Switch plays very similarly as the iconic original on Super Nintendo. The excellent turn-based combat still feels great today, the characters and writing are heartfelt and humorous, and the world design still has that classic Nintendo charm.

"Super Mario RPG is one of the wildest games in Nintendo's catalog. Loaded with eccentric characters like a Santa-esque big bad, random bouts of dark comedy--Toad cosplayers tickle as a form of torture and a four-eyed dog swallows you whole and comments on the taste--and moment-to-moment gameplay that is as raucous as it is eclectic, Super Mario RPG memorably capped off the SNES lifecycle," Steven Petite wrote in GameSpot's Super Mario RPG review. "Fittingly, the new Switch version is one of the weirdest remasters I've ever played. Its surface-level appearance as a modern Mario game is merely a facade. Relentlessly faithful to the original, Super Mario RPG is a bold and largely successful experiment."

For something more recent, you can also pick up Princess Peach: Showtime for $52 (normally $60). This is only a small discount, but in this economy, every dollar counts. Especially when you can use those savings to purchase an official Yoshi costume to wear when you want to play your Mario games in style.

Meanwhile, Walmart has a bunch of deals on first-party Switch games that are worth checking out:

• Kirby's Return to Dreamland -- $41 ($60)
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe -- $45 ($60)
• Super Mario Maker 2 -- $40 ($60)
• Pokemon Shining Pearl -- $30 ($60)
• Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe -- $40 ($60)
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder -- $47 ($60)
• Zelda: Breath of the Wild -- $40 ($60)
• Zelda: Link's Awakening -- $40 ($60)
• Zelda: Skyward Sword HD -- $40 ($60)
• Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom -- $51 ($70)