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Re:Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second... by chrisco255 on Thursday July 06, 2023 @01:15PM (#36619356)
Super Mario RPG was a collab between Nintendo and Square. Square famously jumped ship after Nintendo ditched the CD format. As another mentioned, Paper Mario was supposed to be the spiritual successor to SMRPG. Even though Paper Mario was a modest success, I still consider it a miss on matching SMRPG's quality bar for an RPG.
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Re:Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second... by johnzim on Thursday July 06, 2023 @05:34PM (#36623415)
In addition, Square still held a bunch of specific legal rights around it, which is why Paper Mario was branded as being distinct, even if it had a lot of obvious commonalities.
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