DISCLAIMER: I'm still new to writing reviews so I apologize for the lack of proper punctuation and also if the review feels unfocused at time thank you

For perspective I first played this game back in 2017 I wanted to try it out because I always heard people online talking about how it was one of the greatest games ever made so I eventually got the game and I never finished it furthest I got was Chapter 5 the game just didn't hold my attention I thought it was kinda boring and overhyped fast forward to today I decided I wanted to give the game another go now that I'm more mature and have a larger attention span.

First off I want to get all the negatives out of the way first and most obvious the backtracking it wasn't terrible but I felt a lot of the time I was going back and forth for very small things such as when you're trying to go to twilight Town but the pipe rejects you so you need to find the guy that knows how to get in but it's not even hard to find him or anything and you just talk to him and you can go in it felt very unnecessary and ofc you can't talk about backtracking without talking about Chapters 4 and 7 I didn't mind 4 all to much especially cuz they added a pipe in the creepy steeple that takes you back to twilight Town so you don't have to make the trip back and forth the final time and chapters 7 with the having to visit every location again just to find general white felt very unnecessary considering all you do is talk to a charcter they give you a hint on where he might have gone then repeat 5 more times it just felt like the developers were trying to drag the game out I don't even want to imagine how long it takes without the newly added warp pipes in the remake my final big complaint is the peach interludes they're not bad I like getting to see what happens with her and bowser while mario is on his adventure i just didn't like playing them they were very boring to me bowser ones were fun tho.

Now we can finally move on to the things I like first off the music is awesome and the art style of the remake looks amazing next and probably my favorite part the world and characters I loved all the diverse and interesting locations such as glitzville keyhallkey and twilight Town the moon ofc too and the characters were also really fun to interact with and charming especially the npcs I don't think the story is amazing or anything but I enjoy it well enough I thought the whole peach fusing with the demon at the end was really cool. Now I'll talk about the gameplay at first I honestly found it to be really boring but once I started getting new partners and abilities I started really enjoying it and I also loved that you basically got a personalized baby yoshi that you get to name he was my favorite party member.

I honestly don't have to much else to say except I'm glad i finally finished this game and I had a lot of fun I don't think it's the 10/10 masterpiece a lot of people say it is I still think it's a super solid game and I hope nintendo makes more mario rpgs like this in the future with the success of this remake and the SMRPG one.

I think that's about it if you read all this thank you I'm still new to writing reviews so I apologize for lack of punctuation and grammar all that I promise I'll figure it out eventually if you have any suggestions on things I should have talked about or a way to make my reviews better make sure to comment them I think that's all so thanks for reading :3