The game used sprites for each character and placed them atop an isometric world that you could explore by visiting the various areas in the game. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars was released later in the life of the Super Nintendo and took great advantage of the graphical capabilities of the system with a special enhanced chip that very few games utilized on the console. This is why the announcement of a Super Mario RPG remake earlier this year was all the more surprising, which has now arrived and proves once again why it is one of the greats. The rights have always been an issue due to being a partnership between Nintendo and what was Square at the time.
There are some games that most assumed would never see the light of day again outside of a stray re-release, with Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars definitely being one of those games.
