Whos going to defeat the world destroying monster?
Why, a teenage kid, his childhood mad scientist friend, a sheltered princess, a cursed knight, a robot, and a prehistoric cavewoman (and possibly a misanthropic sorceror). They needn’t bother recruiting any trained soldiers or acquire any heavy artillery. • Lampshaded early in Final Fantasy VII when, upon hearing the party introduce itself one member at a time, Rufus Shinra shrugs and replies, “What a crew.” • The crew who ends up saving the world from being Porky’s oyster in Mother 3 is a cowardly preteenage boy who can’t quite get over his troubled past, his loyal but useless in battle dog, a teen girl raised by freaky cross-dressing fairy things who has been locked away in a castle all her life, and a smelly, ridiculed thief in his 20s with a crippled leg. Yet somehow, we’re not doomed. • In Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, your party consists of a mute everyman plumber with superhuman jumping ability, the monster king who is typically his worst enemy, the princess he has
