History VideoGame / SuperMarioRPG

* RedHerring: The expanded utility of Mallow's Thought Peak reveals a few odd enemy weaknesses early in the game that can never be exploited. For example, Bundt is listed as being vulnerable to mute, but mute can only be inflicted with Peach's Mute magic, and Bundt happens to be the last boss fought before she joins the party (Bundt is refought in the postgame, but it lacks this weakness there).

** Originally, the Feather accessory could be LostForever if you failed to avoid Dodo's pecking at the Mario "statue" and were forced to fight him. The remake has the Toad in Moleville selling a Feather for 250 coins if you missed out on the one in Nimbus Land. If you did get the first Feather anyway, you can still buy the second one.

* GoroawaseNumber: The Muku Cookies you can buy in Seaside Town [[spoiler:while Yaridovich mascarades as the town's villagers]] cost 69 Coins each, using them in battle summons an enemy called Mukumuku, who attempts to attack the party but fails, causing it to heal them by 69 HP. the numbers 6 and 9 can be said as Mu and Ku.

** There's a new Scrapbook feature that keeps track of the [[NowWhereWasIGoingAgain plot events]] that occurs in the game. Most of the entries are written in-character by Mallow or Geno.

* CognizantLimbs: Several examples.

** During the [[spoiler:rematch]] against the Bundt and Tortes, the two Tortes are extremely sleepy from having worked all day and night on the cake. The two are vulnerable to being put to sleep where they will spend several turns doing so if inflicted with sleep from Peach's Sleepy Time.

* MoneyForNothing: Regular coins become mostly useless towards the end of the game, and even the much rarer Frog Coins don't allow you to get anything that can truly be considered broken. After beating Bowser's Keep, one of Bowser's minions creates a chest that gives you infinite money, as long as you're patient enough to keep hitting it.

** At the Kero Sewers warp pipe for the first time, Mallow goes on ahead and enters the pipe without Mario. If Mario were to leave the area without entering the pipe, Mallow immediately exits the pipe and tells Mario that he will go anywhere Mario is going. Even before entering the pipe, Mallow is still part of Mario's party, explaining why he will follow him.

* TheArtefact: The Toad in Marrymore who offers to buy the Bright Card is still present, but his general role to hold the Bright Card safe is removed since it's now a Key Item which doesn't take up a slot like the previous iteration, who now only exists as a quick way of getting coins or Frog Coins which is diminished by the more abundant sources for both.

** The hidden chest in Mushroom Castle is made to be no longer missable.

* PokeInTheThirdEye: Using Thought Peek on Shy Ranger now gives an updated thought addressing Mallow's attempt:
--> '''Shy Ranger''': ''I'm on a mission. Stop reading my mind. Over and out.''

** When Mario attempts to go after Bowyer before Geno appears, Mallow would pull Mario back and say "Who do you think you are, Bruce Lee?" The remake drops the Bruce Lee reference, likely because the Lee estate is known to be very litigious about their late patriarch's name.

** Nearly every character's last special move is a HerdHittingAttack that deals high damage. Generally, these are too FP-expensive to use on normal enemies often, and too weak for boss fights. Bowser's Bowser Crush works off his poor magic attack, Mallow's Star Rain has touchy timed hits ([[DifficultButAwesome but is very strong if perfected]]), and Mario's Ultra Flame is generally weaker than Ultra Jump before it. Averted with Geno's Geno Flash and Peach's Psych Bomb, which are both powerful non-elemental attacks that are great against the games later enemies and bosses. Psych Bomb especially is likely the strongest special move in the game thanks to Peach's naturally strong magical abilities, with the only real issues being that Peach is usually better off healing and its power will be crippled if she is wearing the Lazy Shell.

** Nearly every character's last special move is a HerdHittingAttack that deals high damage. Generally, these are too FP-expensive to use on normal enemies often, and too weak for boss fights. Bowser's Bowser Crush works off his poor magic attack, Mallow's Star Rain has touchy timed hits ([[DifficultButAwesome but is very strong if perfected]]), and Mario's Ultra Flame is generally weaker than Ultra Jump before it. Averted with Geno's Geno Flash and Peach's Psych Bomb, which are both powerful non-elemental attacks that hit all enemies. Psych Bomb especially is likely the strongest special move in the game thanks to Peach's naturally strong magical abilities, with the only real issues being that Peach is usually better off healing and its power will be crippled if she is wearing the Lazy Shell.

** In Grate Guy's Casino, the Blackjack game is replaced with a memory card game and all games are free to play due to numerous ratings boards having adopted stricter rules regarding gambling since 1996.

** In Grate Guy's Casino, the Blackjack game is replaced with a memory card game due to numerous ratings boards having adopted stricter rules regarding gambling since 1996.

* NoblewomansLaugh: Valentina's Castle theme has the sound of a woman laughing in the typical "Oh ho ho ho ho" style.

** In Grate Guy's Casino, the Blackjack game is replaced with a memory card game due to numourous ratings boards having adopted stricter rules regarding gambling since 1996.

** Bowser's victory pose has been changed in all versions of the game due to the fact that it resembled the PolishingTheBicep gesture which is considered offensive in some countries. His new pose is a reference to his ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' artwork.
** In Grate Guy's Casino, the Blackjack game is replaced with a memory card game due to the ratings boards having stricter rules regarding gambling.

%%** Bowser's victory pose has been changed in all versions of the game.

** Bowser's victory pose has been changed in all versions of the game.

** In Grate Guy's Casino, the Blackjack game is replaced with a memory card game due to the ratings boards having stricter rules regarding gambling.
** The enemy "Shyster" was renamed to "Shymore," which makes it match the renamed Claymorton (formerly, Mack), but also avoids using a term some consider antisemitic.

** The game's level cap is one of the [[AbsurdlyLowLevelCap lowest eastern examples]] at 30.
** The amount of coins the party can hold is limited to 999, and some items can sell for more than half of that.

** The item cap of 20 is much lower than most games of the era, [[InventoryManagementPuzzle so managing inventory space becomes a challenge]].