Last time, we talked about the origins of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars and how Nintendo and Square Soft took Mario into unfamiliar territory by taking him from his normal platforming games and putting him into an entirely different genre. There are many things that make role-playing games different from platformers, but one of the biggest differences is the scope of the worlds. The Final Fantasy series is known for taking players into larger-than-life locales, so why should Super Mario RPG be any different? How does one get started making Mario's world bigger than ever before? For starters, Super Mario RPG changed the perspective that fans have been accustomed to for over a decade.