21st June 2023, 5:39 PM
The battle system is already excellent in the game. I'm not sure what issues you had with it, but all those key features in Paper Mario? All of them came from Super Mario RPG. Low stat numbers to make each hit point count (though not quite to the extent that Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi would later use), reactions for dodging incoming attacks, reactions to boost damage of your own attacks, and special inputs to boost all the special moves. It's all there, plus a unified pool of "Flower Points" the whole party uses.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)