Yes, I went there. Deal with it.

Ask for a list of "best games evar!" and this game will inevitably end up being mentioned by several people. But if we're being honest here, this game's appeal lies primarily in the fact that it placed one of the most popular casts of video game characters into an RPG.

What I'm getting at here, is that were you to replace Mario and crew with a generic crew of RPG heroes, swap out koopa troopas for "turtle warriors" and goombas for "evil fungus", and people would have thought much less of the game than they do.

Lets face it, the gameplay and storyline were average, and these are the two most important aspects of jrpgs. The only reason this game gets the praise that it does is because everybody loves Mario. That's what it boils down to.

Thus, SMBRPG is one of the most overrated games ever made.