I absolutely adore the Mario & Luigi series and just because this is the oldest absolutely does not make it the weakest. Everything about this game is just pure fun. While modern Paper Mario may be a bland mess of bad and basic ideas, this is the origin of something special. However the graphics and a few other minor things do hold it back and I believe those issues are just tied to the passage of time. This is why I all around prefer the 3DS remake because it fixes every issue I have with this game. Either way, no matter what means you have to take, you NEED to play this game.