Super Mario RPG is one of those weird, wonderful SNES classics that shouldn’t work but totally does. Mario teams up with Bowser (yeah, really) and a bunch of oddball characters to take down a floating sword guy who crashed into the Mushroom Kingdom. The combat’s turn-based but with timed button presses to boost attacks or block—kinda like Paper Mario before Paper Mario existed.

It’s got that classic Squaresoft charm—weird NPC dialogue, hidden secrets everywhere, and a soundtrack that’ll get stuck in your head for days. The graphics are these chunky, colorful 3D-ish sprites that somehow still look great. Also, you can jump on people’s heads in the overworld just to mess with them, which never gets old.

If you missed this back in the ‘90s, it’s still a blast to play now—just don’t expect it to be like other Mario games.