Paper Mario is NOT super mario RPG, it isn't even a tenth as good. It is somewhat funny yes, but the gameplay isn't half as good, the story is non existant (the Super Mario RPG story was actually pretty good), the party and fight dynamics in Paper Mario pale in comparison ect.
The difference between Super Mario RPG and Paper Mario is the difference between laughing at and laughing with. Super Mario RPG was a legitimately great game with some humor, Paper Mario is like a caricature of Super Mario RPG without all the good parts. Its like Watching Spiderman (which had its funny moments, but was great besides that) then watching Super Hero Movie. Not that Paper Mario is horrid, but it's not even in the same league. It's like comparing Mario Sunshine to the rest of the Mario action games.
I already did like the SNES before Super Mario RPG, but Super Mario RPG was the first game that was REALLY loads better then NES games (I never got into the whole genesis does thing, I never bought a non Nintendo console till FFVII went to PS1 in 1997). Most of the RPGs for the SNES were a lot like NES games in terms of game play and graphics (compare Final Fantasy 4 to late gen NES games for instance), Super Mario RPG was the "wow this is way better" game.
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