Massive Mario RPG for Nintendo Switch Slashes Price by 50%!

The new Mario RPG is available for just $30 at Best Buy, but this offer is set to expire tonight, December 6, at 10 PM PT. This marks the third occasion this week that Best Buy has lowered the price of the 2023 Switch remake of Mario’s initial role-playing quest. Earlier this week, it was priced at $38, and just yesterday it decreased to $33 alongside several other heavily discounted Switch games.

While many of Best Buy’s Switch deals are out of stock online, there’s a chance you might find them at your local store:

Best Buy’s Nintendo Switch Game Offers

• Super Mario RPG — $30 ($60)
• Ring Fit Adventure — $60 ($80)
• New Pokémon Snap — $30 ($60) | Sold out
• Splatoon 2 — $25 ($60) | Sold out
• Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon — $30 ($60)
• Fire Emblem Engage — $25 ($60) | Sold out
• Miitopia — $30 ($50)
• WarioWare: Get It Together — $25 ($50) | Recently restocked

Remarkably true to the beloved original, Super Mario RPG is an impressive Switch title augmented with various quality-of-life improvements that make it more accessible to newcomers. Fans of the RPG series will appreciate the array of post-game challenges that truly test your skills.

Apart from these enhancements and adjustments, Super Mario RPG on Switch plays very similarly to the iconic original on Super Nintendo. The thrilling turn-based combat still feels fantastic today, the characters are well-developed and humorous, and the world design retains that classic Nintendo charm.

GameSpot’s Super Mario RPG review declared this updated version of the SNES classic to be a real joy. “Super Mario RPG is one of the most unique games in Nintendo’s lineup. Filled with quirky characters like a Santa-like antagonist, unexpected moments of dark humor–including Toad cosplayers as a form of humor and a four-eyed dog that devours you and critiques the flavor–and gameplay that is as chaotic as it is diverse, Super Mario RPG famously rounded off the SNES era. Fittingly, the new Switch version stands out as one of the most bizarre remasters I’ve encountered. Its superficial appearance as a contemporary Mario game is merely a mask. Faithful to the original, Super Mario RPG is a bold and largely successful venture.”

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Although Big Mario RPG for Switch is merely a year old, Nintendo has unveiled two new Mario RPG titles since its release. An upgraded version of the GameCube classic Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door debuted in May. Extremely true to the original launch, the Switch remaster garnered a 9/10 in our review of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.

In November, Nintendo breathed new life into the Mario & Luigi RPG series with Mario & Luigi: Brothership, which received a 6/10 in our review. While we appreciated the artistic style and storyline, performance issues, repetitive battles, and pacing problems made Brothership a mixed, although enjoyable, experience that might feel a tad lengthy for its content.

Both of these Mario RPGs, alongside Paper Mario: The Origami King, are currently discounted at Amazon and Woot, allowing you to snatch all four Mario role-playing (physical) releases right now.

Nintendo Switch Mario RPG Promotions

• Mario & Luigi: Brothership — $50 ($60)
• Paper Mario: The Origami King — $42 ($60)
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door — $50 ($60)
• Super Mario RPG — $30 ($60)

These represent just a small selection of the Super Mario games available at a discount right now. The Amazon-owned outlet Woot features a variety of Super Mario platformers and compilation titles on sale currently, including the recently launched Super Mario Party Jamboree. Games featuring other characters from the Mushroom Kingdom, like Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, are also on discount. You might also find a wide range of Pokemon, Kirby, and Zelda games as well, which are often hard to find on sale (or even in stock), such asBayonetta and Dragon Quest 1-3 collection. Take a moment to explore the extensive list of Switch discounts available at Woot below:

Nintendo Switch Game Discounts at Woot

• Animal Crossing: New Horizons — $40 ($60)
• Bayonetta — $35 ($60)
• Bayonetta 3 — $30 ($60)
• Bayonetta Origins — $35 ($60)
• Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze — $42 ($60)
• Doom Anthology – Steelbook + BFG Replica — $55 ($80)
• Dragon Quest I-III Collection — $42 ($60)
• Everyone 1-2 Switch! — $13 ($30)
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — $45 ($60)
• Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes — $27 ($60)
• Harvest Moon: One World — $20 ($40)
• Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe — $40 ($60)
• Kirby Star Allies — $40 ($60)
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land — $40 ($60)
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Insights — $50 ($60)
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom — $45 ($70)
• Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD — $45 ($60)
• Luigi’s Mansion 3 — $40 ($60)
• Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time — $50 ($60)
• Mario Golf: Great Adventure — $40 ($60)
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe — $38 ($60)
• Mario Party Superstars — $40 ($60)
• Metroid Dread — $42 ($60)
• New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe — $40 ($60)
• Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition — $25 ($30)
• Nintendo Switch Sports — $37 ($50)
• Paper Mario: The Origami King — $42 ($60)
• Pokemon Legends: Arceus — $45 ($60)
• Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee — $40 ($60)
• Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu — $42 ($60)
• Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX — $42 ($60)
• Pokemon Shield — $40 ($60)
• Pokemon Sword — $42 ($60)
• Pokemon Scarlet — $42 ($60)
• Pokemon Violet — $42 ($60)
• Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Double Pack — $85 ($120)
• Sonic & Shadow Generations — $37 ($50)
• Splatoon 3 — $42 ($60)
• Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury — $42 ($60)
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder — $43 ($60)
• Super Mario Odyssey — $40 ($60)
• Super Mario Party — $40 ($60)
• Super Mario Party Jamboree — $48 ($60)
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate — $43 ($60)
• Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition — $40 ($60)
• Yoshi’s Crafted World — $40 ($60)