Super Mario RPG Is Only $30 At Best Buy Today (December 12)

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Best Buy's 12 Days of Gaming holiday promotion has brought back one of last week's best video game deals. Super Mario RPG for Nintendo Switch is on sale for 50% off. Make sure to snag Super Mario RPG for $30 before the promotion expires tonight, December 12, at 10 PM PT.

Best Buy has numerous Nintendo Switch exclusives marked down by 50% or more, but some of these deals sold out last week.

Best Buy's Nintendo Switch Game Deals

Super Mario RPG -- $30 ($60)
Ring Fit Adventure -- $60 ($80)
New Pokemon Snap -- $31 ($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)

Incredibly faithful to the beloved original, Super Mario RPG is a charming Switch game enhanced with several quality-of-life changes that make it more approachable to newcomers. Mario RPG veterans will appreciate the series of post-game fights that really test your prowess.

Beyond those additions and tweaks, Super Mario RPG on Switch plays very similarly as the iconic original on Super Nintendo. The excellent turn-based combat still feels great today, the characters and writing are heartfelt and humorous, and the world design still has that classic Nintendo charm.

GameSpot's Super Mario RPG review found the modernized version of the SNES classic to be a delight. "Super Mario RPG is one of the wildest games in Nintendo's catalog. Loaded with eccentric characters like a Santa-esque big bad, random bouts of dark comedy--Toad cosplayers tickle as a form of torture and a four-eyed dog swallows you whole and comments on the taste--and moment-to-moment gameplay that is as raucous as it is eclectic, Super Mario RPG memorably capped off the SNES lifecycle. Fittingly, the new Switch version is one of the weirdest remasters I've ever played. Its surface-level appearance as a modern Mario game is merely a facade. Relentlessly faithful to the original, Super Mario RPG is a bold and largely successful experiment."

Though Super Mario RPG for Switch is only a year old, Nintendo has released two Mario RPGs since its launch. An enhanced edition of the GameCube classic Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door released in May. Also exceedingly faithful to the original release, the Switch remaster earned a 9/10 in our Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door review.

In November, Nintendo revived the Mario & Luigi RPG series with Mario & Luigi: Brothership, which earned a 6/10 in our review. While we praised the art style and story, performance issues, repetitive combat, and pacing issues make Brothership an uneven, albeit fun, adventure that's perhaps a bit too long for its own good.

Both of those Mario RPGs as well as Paper Mario: The Origami King are on sale at Amazon and Woot, so you can save on all four Mario role-playing (physical) releases at the moment.

Nintendo Switch Mario RPG Deals

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)

Those are just a small sample of the Super Mario games on sale right now. Amazon-owned retailer Woot has many Super Mario platformers and party games discounted right now. Games starring other characters from the Mushroom Kingdom, including Luigi's Mansion 2 HD, are on sale, too. You can also save on a wide variety of Pokemon, Kirby, and Zelda games as well as rarely discounted (or even in stock) games like Bayonetta and Dragon Quest 1-3 collection. Check out the full list of Switch deals at Woot below: