Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, also known as simple Super Mario RPG, was the Smithy Gang's invasion and reparation of the Star Road.

History

Sudden Interruption

Princess Peach was hanging out near Mario's House, picking flowers when Bowser suddenly arrived from his Clown Car, kidnapping her. Mario noticed the sudden change in weather and followed Bowser all the way to Bowser's Castle. Reaching the throne room, Mario fought Bowser on a pair of chandeliers and defeated him following a chain reaction. But while Mario was trying to reach Peach, the massive sword Exor descended from the sky, drilling itself through both the castle and the Star Road. Everyone was flown away, including Mario who fell back into his own house.

Toad arrived to come pick up Peach, but finds out from Mario that she's gone, so Mario returned back to the castle. Having returned back to Bowser's Castle, the sentient sword spotted Mario and broke the bridge leading to the castle, having announced the castle's new ownership under the Smithy Gang. Telling Toad that the bridge is out, the two decided to inform the Mushroom Kingdom Chancellor about this. Going through Mushroom Way, saving Toad from its monsters multiple times, and defeating a pair of Hammer Bros., the duo reach the Mushroom Castle (and with a hammer Mario got from one of the defeated Hammer Bros.).

Having presented the story to the Chancellor and the Mushroom Retrievers, Mario gets the basic task of returning Princess Peach. Being outside, Mario spotted a scene of a puffy boy named Mallow chasing after the thieving Croco for his grandfather's Frog Coin. Mario decided to help Mallow get his Frog Coin back and followed Croco to Bandit's Way, where they fought him for the coin.

Mack Tonight

Having gone back to the Mushroom Castle, they see that darkness has fallen around the area, and Shy Guys are bouncing, chasing, and terrrizing everyone inside. Mario and Mallow headed inside and found out that this invasion seemed to have been under the hands of Claymorton, a member of the Smithy Gang. After defeating him, he left behind a blue star, which they took along.

Not knowing what to do with this star piece, they headed to Mallow's grandfather, the Frog Sage, for advice. First, they had to go through Kero Sewers, fought the hungry Belome, and engaged in the Midas River course before reaching Tadpole Pond. By talking to the Frog Sage, they find out that Peach and Bowser are scattered across the Mushroom Kingdom, the Smithy Gang are wreaking havoc, that they must collect the rest of the star pieces, and that Mallow is not a frog and must find his birth parents.

Going through Rose Way to reach Rose Town, Mario and Mallow found Bowser having a meeting with his troops who were planning to take back control of his castle. When they left, the two arrived at Rose Town and found it cloaked in another darkness, this time under threat of flying arrows from the nearby forest that froze people when hit. Helping the people in town, they went inside and found a boy called Gaz playing with his toys. After playing with the boy, Mario is knocked out by the Geno toy's hand cannon. That night, a mysterious light brings Geno to life, with the puppet heading inside the forest which Gaz noticed. Mario and Mallow followed Gaz' words and headed into Forest Maze.

Geno and the Star Road Ahead

Having trutted deeper inside Forest Maze, they find the culprit behind the barrage of arrows: Bowyer, another member of the Smithy Gang. At the same time, one of Bowyer's minions had found another star piece, but Geno wasn't going to let them take it. Mario, Mallow, and Geno teamed up and defeated Bowyer, utilizing a Triple Move at the end when Bowyer cursed all of their previous choices null. Geno explained that he came from a higher authority in order to repair the Star Road, an integral piece in granting the wishes of everyone on the planet. All of these star pieces were fragments of the Star Road, and Mario and gang had to collect them before the Smithy Gang could.

Before continuing on, the group took a detour from Pipe Vault to Yo'ster Isle. Meeting up with Yoshi, a problem had arisen; Boshi was only allowing one-on-one races on the Mushroom Derby, so someone had to beat him and become the leader. By having defeated Boshi in a race, Yoshi demolished Yoshi Clan leadership and everyone was now allowed to race on the Mushroom Derby, along with having uncovered the cookie stash.

Mine Tracking along

Back at the beaten path and in Moleville, the fallen star piece had caused trouble to the moles mining inside as the star crashed a cave-in, which caused them to be trapped inside. What's more, Ma and Pa Mole's children, Dyna and Mite, were among the moles trapped inside. So the three jumped and cleared out the caved-in entrances, got robbed for a small while by Croco, and fought the bomb-making Punchinello. Having defeated the bomb maker and retrieving the third star piece, the trio found Dyna and Mite about to head into a mine cart. By riding the mine cart back to their parents' house, Mario non-fatally returned the Mole family their children.

Leaving the Mole family's house, they got word from some odd Snifsters who tried to catch a beetle that someone named Booster was taking care of a pink girl that had fallen from the sky.

Booster Moment

First moving through Booster Pass, they reach the entrance to Booster Tower. Bowser also happened to be there, reminiscing about once having a castle. Bowser smashed open the entrance to Booster Tower and, regrettably, had the three join him as his minions. While climbing the tower, Bowser freed a Chain Chomp that had been locked by Booster. Climbing up further along the way and playing Booster's childish or deadly games, they reached the top and hide from Booster. His plan with keeping Peach hostage was to eventually marry her, which nobody wanted. The four follow him, but are stopped by Knife Guy and Grate Guy.

After their defeat, they chase after Booster up Booster Hill and into Marrymore. Barging through the chalpel, the crash caused Peach to lose all of her accessories, and she's forced to be wed with Booster, so she's crying. After having her stuff retrieved, everyone was planning to leave, but then the Torte chefs arrive with their cake, but then the cake, called Bundt and Raspberry, turned alive and attacked everyone, but Booster ate the entire cake down in one gulp, saving everyone. With the cake eaten, the wedding is over so everyone could go home.

Back at the Mushroom Castle, Peach is returned safely, but the threat of the Smithy Gang still lingered above the Mushroom Kingdom, so Mario, Mallow, Geno, and Bowser still had to collect all of the star pieces to restore the Star Road. However, after going outside, they spot Peach jumping off of her room's window and begged Mario to join him on this adventure. After having consulted the Frog Sage on the star piece's next location, they go through Star Hill and find the fourth star piece after going through enough doors. Peach advised the team that Seaside Town would be a good next destination, so the group headed there.

Spearing the Smithy Gang

Seaside Town's citizens seemed weird, having blue skin and speaking very slow. Despite that, they told that a star piece had fallen into the ocean and was held by Jonathan Jones inside the nearby Sunken Ship. The group headed underwater and delved into the broken ship, and fought the King Calamari that took down the ship in the first place. Their ship's journey led them to Johnathan Jones, who fought the group, and later Mario one-on-one, before relinquishing the fifth star piece.

Returning back to Seaside Town, they're ambushed by the town's citizens, who turned out to have been Speardovich in disguise, another member of the Smithy Gang. They force the group to release the star piece, but are then ambushed themselves by Johnathan. Speardovich is forced to reveal his true form and fought the group, but is defeated. For a second time, Mario's group got the fifth star piece, but were now aware that the Smithy Gang are doing everything necessary to get the star pieces.

Regardless of this news, the real citizens of Seaside Town were released and the group continued their journey to Monstro Town, a town of reformed monsters and also likely a star piece.

Land's High

Having gone through Land's End, the group had to cross Belome Temple to fight Belome yet again before reaching Monstro Town. After being confused with a Starslap instead of a star piece, Monstermama of Monstro Town speculated that the next star piece could be in the sky. After taking a rest, Mario is greeted by the Three Musty Fears who told him to find three flags hidden around the world for a special prize. After having found all of the flags, the Three Musty Fears rewarded Mario with a Ghost Medal. The group also fought Jinx at his dojo.

With help from Monstermama who summoned Sergeant Flutter, the group climbed up into Bean Valley, fought Megasmilax, and reached a beanstalk that reached Nimbus Land.

On Nimbus Land, Valentina announces to the citizens that King Nimbus continues to be ill but introduces that the king's son, Prince Mallow, wants to marry her. In actuality, the son is a big bird called Dodo, but it convinces the people enough.

Using a clever disguise, Mario makes his way into Nimbus Castle thanks to the sculputor Garro. Valentina tries escaping Mario and friends, but they catch up eventually and defeat her along with her manipulation of the entire town. Mallow frees the royal parents and are reunited with one another, but Mallow continues with the group to head into Barrel Volcano which King Nimbus said might hold a Star Piece.

Inside the volcano, the Czar Dragon is fought and the sixth Star Piece is obtained. Surprise, the Star Piece is then nabbed by the Axem Rangers. Onboard the Blade, the gang fights the rangers and retrieves the Star Piece for real.

Between all that

On Melody Bay, Mario helps Toadovsky compose a new piece for his song.

The group also fights Culex, a 2-dimensional ruler of all evil made from the power of evil from another dimension.

Heading to Bowser's Castle

Returning to Castle Nimbus, the Nimbus royalties suggest the last Star Piece to be in Bowser's Castle. With no bridge available to cross through, they allow Mario's group to use the royal bus. Walking through Bowser's Castle, the Smithy Gang has managed to hypnotize the Koopa Troop, which Kamek reveals after getting the hypnosis beat out of him. After fighting Boomer, the gang are led to the top floor of Bowser's Castle where they fight Exor.

Exor's defeat opens up a portal to another world where the Smithy Gang originates from. Moving through their base of operation, Factory, they encounter a wide variety of copies and members of the Smithy Gang, like Count Down, Cloaker, and Domino.

Their journey has finally led the gang to their leader, Smithy. In a multi-phase battle that brings everyone down to the Factory's basement, Smithy is fully destroyed with the last Star Piece fully obtained. With all of the Star Pieces on hand, the Star Road can now be completed. The star spirit inhabiting Geno leaves its host doll and the portal to Smithy's world is destroyed.

Epilogue

Mallow returns to his parents as the prince of Nimbus Land, Bowser and the rest of the Koopa Troop are fixing up the damage left to their castle, Jonathan Jones stares towards the cast ocean, Boshi leaves with Croco after losing a race against Yoshi, Toadofsky is hosting a concert, Valentina is forcing Booster to marry her, and Mario and Peach return back to the Mushroom Kingdom.

Luigi is hosting the grand parade celebrating Mario and his friends' victory. Geno, his true name being ♡♪!?, is also there to wave Mario and Peach off before returning back to the Star Road.

Timeline

• Mario cannot speak the Yoshi language here and needs Yoshi to translate, placing it before future games in which Mario can understand the Yoshis.
• Yoshi is still living on Yoshi’s Island, placing this game before future games in which Yoshi is living in the Mushroom Kingdom.
• It’s heavily implied that this is Princess Peach’s first adventure, placing this game before Super Mario Bros. 2.
• Birdo is born here.
• Shy Guys are minions of Smithy here, not Bowser.
• In this game some Shy Guys say “The mustachioed one is strong” in reference to Mario after Mack’s defeat, clearly surprised. This may imply that this is the Shy Guys’ first encounter with adult Mario.
• Gaz has Mario toys, though they aren’t Mini-Mario Toys, perhaps suggesting that while the Mario Toy Company is open, Mario vs. Donkey Kong hasn’t happened yet.
• This game is implied to be Kamek’s first encounter with adult Mario.