

What really sells it is the music that plays as the following cutscene plays, all the way up to Exor disintegrating. When Smithy is finally defeated, he reverts back to his star form and hovers over Mario, Mallow, Bowser, and Peach before finally leaving and taking the Stars with him.

It's hinted at more and more as the game progresses, to the point where Geno almost outright tells Mario that he'll eventually have to go back to Star Road before urging him and his friends to fight Smithy. Finally, with one final goodbye to Mario and co., Boomer slashes Chandeli-Ho, causing him to drop the chandelier he was standing on and sends himself plummeting to his demise.Or at least it would be the case if he wasn't strong enough to survive the fall as Chandeli-Ho implies. Instead, Boomer claims he doesn't need Mario's sympathy. Super Mario RPG was the starting point of the humorous tradition in the Mario RPGs. As with most forms of media, video games have since been a subject to parodies ever since they gained mainstream popularity in the early Eighties, with popular characters like Mario, Sonic and the like getting their fair share of expies, or common gaming conventions such as Achievement Systems and First-Person Shooter mechanics being satirized or deconstructed either as a commentary on the. Mario apparently spares him of his fate and even tries to cheer him up, but to no avail.

They're utterly devastated by the wrench thrown in their future plans, but thankfully, they quickly resume the wedding after rescuing Toadstool. The battle system is significantly simpler than the norm for RPGs. When you get to Marrymore, the Toad couple from earlier Raz and Raimi get kicked out by Booster's forces before they could get married.
