This is the greatest mario game to ever exist methinks... Next to mario 64 (Love this game, they pansified it on the DS - tick tock clock now has more metal grating apparantly, and by adding other characters). Paper mario series was good (Have not played the 3rd), but it does not come close to SMRPG. Everything about the game is amazing. The game may be short compared to other RPGs, but its awsome. Heck I think it can take like 10-15 hours to beat it if you know what your doing. For the game, unless you skip every enemy, you will never have to hang out in the 'wild' to level up. Fight roughly every other enemy and your golden (asuming that you are perfect with the input commands). Theres alot to this game. Argh, kind of hard to describe in words, you gotta play it.