The dark lore, high-stakes difficulty, and for many titles, the boss fights, are all core components of this genre that help tie together some pretty disparate games into a coherent identity.

Although we ranked these games from worst to best, just remember that we believe all games in the series are solid RPG ... Mario & Luigi time up with their baby counterparts as they fight off ...

While supplies last, Gamestop is offering the excellent Super Mario RPG remake for Nintendo Switch ... fairly simple outside of its very clever boss fights, but it’s also ultra satisfying ...