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Super Mario RPG (1996)

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Super Mario RPG Armageddon is a hack for Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars by darkkefka. Much higher difficulty, rebalanced characters, new spells & equipment, and even new content are just a few of things this hack does.

Since the latest version's patch comes with a rom you must apply said patch to, a link can't be provided. Go and fire up the Google engines to locate it.

Time to go find that little croc thief, but first...off screen grinding so Mallow wouldn't be as squishy for the next area. Mallow hit level 5, picking up his Wishing Star skill while tossing all level up bonuses into. Costs 8 fp to revive a target. Good if you run out of Life Shrooms.

Anyways, to Bandit's Way. Said thieving croc, the aptly named Croco, is waiting at the entrance. He's obviously taunting the duo as he runs off deeper into the area.

A few new enemies pop up in this area as well.

Frogogs have quite a bit of health...but not enough to take a timed Shocker hit from Mallow, especially if he's devoted his level up bonuses to extra magic attack. Said enemies also have a pretty powerful ice based attack that hits one target. Just hope it hits whomever is wearing the Ice Ring. Frogogs can also drop Tripleshrooms (80 hp healing for all allies).

Dark Wolves aren't much to speak of aside from their physical inflicting poison.

Bandits can toss bombs or toss knives that can instantly kill a single target. It didn't go so well for the first one I ran into, that's for sure.

On the 2nd screen of the area, there are two spinning flowers, The second one near the exit into the 3rd screen should be hopped on, then launch yourself east to the nearby stationary flower. You'll nab a hidden chest with a Holy Crystal, an item that will be handy if you run into ghostly enemies.

On the 4th screen, you should see Croco. He mentions another big change this hack introduces...no more invincibility stars from chests so you can get easy and free exp.

In the last area, Croco is running around to hide in different spots and you need to sneak up behind him. Do this three times and Croco basically says "Screw this, I'm attacking you guys!".

Croco does have a couple attacks up his sleeve, but luckily both are single target attacks. The hammer toss might one shot Mallow if you don't do a timed block on it, but that's about it. Croco also gets mangled something fierce by timed Shockers, meaning Mallow is going to do all the damage here while Mario plays healer, attacking only if there's no other need at the moment.

Rewards for the fight are pretty solid. Nice chunk of exp & coins as well as an Electric Bomb. You would do well to save this item for the next boss fight that isn't all that far away.

With the coin from Mallow's grandpa recovered (and a wallet too!), we can go get that item that Mallow was in the Mushroom Kingdom for earlier. A launchpad provides easy passage back to the start of this area so you can run on out.

Back at the Mushroom Kingdom, apparently some Shy Guys found some pogo sticks and felt like causing chaos in the area. We'll have to fix this next time, won't we?

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