His other stats were normal too except one. Mario had 20/20 health, and already had is hammer which I didn't think was weird considering everything else. I opened the menu and went to status and selected Mario. I hadn't thought until now to check Mario's stats. The full heal block was still there, even though I didn't need it now. The hills were flattened, the once spinning flowers were now piles of ash, once again there were enemies everywhere on the ground. I got through the first screen and the second screen wasn't much better. The dense forests and vines look like they had been burned away and there were charred enemies on the ground, some with mangled faces and some torn in half with actual blood which was never, ever seen in a Mario game. There were huge chunks that look like they were blown apart by an explosion of some sort. I left the house and went for the overworld map. I knew that was the case because if I tried to turn off Luigi's lamp, it would say, “Luigi wouldn't want me sleeping in his bed. It was nice they made some contrast there. Mario's was the one with a green blanket and Luigi's was the red one. There were two beds, each with a nightstand and a lamp. Everything was different because there was two of everything. I went inside the house out of curiosity. The sign above Mario's door that once said, “Pipe House,” now said, “Mario and Luigi,” with Luigi's name crossed out. Mario: "How could this happen? My own brother, taken from me. But he was speaking and it wasn't pretty. The game faded in with Mario outside his house. The file that remained was called “PAYBACK.” I selected the file and Mario jumped off the screen like he usually does. All my files were gone and I got pretty far on all of them, two of which had completed games on them. Only the Mario sprite you use to select your file didn't have the same old dumpy smile he always has. Who or what was responsible? I had to hit start. I wanted to know what Mario was going to do next. Seven “Screams?” I wanted to shut the game off because something was seriously wrong. And because of making a comic I'd seen every one, even the hidden, unused sprites. I'd never seen any of these sprites in this game EVER. “Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Screams.” That's when it faded to the title screen. She sat down on the bed and sighed, brushing her hair and looking out the window. The cut-scene cut back to Toadstool in her bedroom in the castle. Mario was getting ready to go out and went for his hammer on the wall and paused when he saw the one next to it under the name “Luigi.” He looked like he was going to well up again but instead just grabbed his hammer, pulled down his hat and left. He stared at the empty seat for a beat before breaking into tears. Sitting at the breakfast table with a place set for a second person across from him. Washing his face at the sink and looking over at the second sink and sighing. The screen faded back in to Mario in his house doing various things. The camera panned up to the sky and faded to white. I didn't know what happened but they obviously lost someone very close. He wasn't crying though, trying to be tough.
Soon, Mario came out of his house and sat beside her looking sad and put his arm around her. A sound I'd never even heard in the game before.
Where the usual happy music plays, there was only a crying sound effect. Toadstool was sitting on the ground on the same flower patch, but she was crying. Right after the Nintendo/Square licensing bit, there is usually a cut-scene of Toadstool getting kidnapped by Bowser and Mario opening his door, seeing her missing and jumps out to save the day. Right away I noticed something else that was really unusual. I put it in the system anyway and turned it on. And even though I should have been more concerned with WHY it was hot, I wanted to play it. It had never done this before and there was no real explanation for it since it hadn’t even been used in months. Found it.īut when I picked it up something was really weird. Anyway, I got it hooked up and looked through my games: Super Mario All-Stars, Super Metroid, Mario World, Crono Trigger, Super Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Stars. The WASD keyboard configuration was just getting tired to me. Normally I'd just use an emulator but I wanted to feel the controller in my hands. I dug out my SNES and my box of games and hooked it up. I decided to play a little bit and it would get me in the mood to work on a new comic. I wanted something older and I thought, "What better than my old fave, Mario RPG?" In fact I'd even been neglecting my webcomic of it lately. One night, I got tired of playing the games I'd been working on lately. The fateful night when my view of the game would change forever. Super Mario RPG was always one of my favorite games of all time, and it still is.
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