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Mario & Luigi: Brothership
The brothers return for a brand new adventure on the high seas! Set sail with Mario and Luigi on Shipshape Island (part ship, part island) and journey through the vast world of Concordia. Launch out of Shipshape’s cannon to visit, explore, and quest your way through islands that range from tropical rainforests to bustling cities. Meet new friends ...
Details
- Released
- November 6, 2024
- Developer
- ACQUIRE Corp.
- Genres
- Action · Platform · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Platforms
- Switch
How it plays
Time to beat · 3 player times (IGDB)
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Mario & Luigi: Brothership Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Mario & Luigi: Brothership is an excellent choice for those who love turn-based combat and RPGs because of its unique twists, dynamic combat, and gorgeous world to explore.
Mario & Luigi Brothership is a welcome return, and succeeds far more than it fails. Its heartwarming story mixed with solid battle mechanics will keep you engaged for some time…even if it goes a bit long in the tooth near the end.
Mario & Luigi: Brothership is a fun addition to the series and for the Switch. It has fun gameplay and great humour, but feels repetitive at times and quite long.
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Mario & Luigi: Brothership offers a fun but uninspirational experience for series fans. Its repetitive story, lack of depth, and slow battles hold it back. At $60, it's lacking compared to other RPGs, making it a harder recommendation for nonfans.
Mario & Luigi: Brothership is the classic Mario & Luigi experience that fans have been clamouring for since Bowser's Inside Story. While there are significant pacing issues that means the game takes a while to get going, a simple but engaging battle system and incredibly intriguing second half of the story helps to keep Brothership on course.
All aboard for an island-hopping RPG adventure starring Mario and Luigi!
At the end of the day, Mario and Luigi: Brothership has plenty of great elements to it that are also trapped behind a game that just wants to take its time and squeeze as much juice out of itself as it can.
Mario & Luigi: Brothership tells a charming and positive story with incredibly poor pacing and some impressive combat and exploration mechanics that have quite a bit of depth.
Mario & Luigi Brothership is definitely ambitious, but the structure of the game is not well suited to the sluggish feeling everything has. Despite being about half the length of some other modern RPGs, it doesn’t have the depth to match. A few good gags and some touching character moments doesn’t make the entire experience fulfilling. What’s here is solid enough but it’s death by a thousand cuts. Every cool or fascinating thing has some kind of asterisk to go with it. Battles are fun but they take forever to finish, characters are unique but dialogue is often belabored, Battle Plugs are inter...
When crafting a game, it’s important to be aware of one’s audience. You don’t want to make an easy, approachable Dark Souls game anymore than you want a gritty, realistic Paw Patrol adventure (though the latter would be a remarkable exercise). You not only need to consider the current fanbase, but your potential as well. So I understand that the creators of Mario and Luigi: Brothership needed to consider the Nintendo Switch market as a whole. Given that the last new entry was nearly ten...
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