Visually, Mario & Luigi: Brothership is a candy-coated affair that fits right in with the series. There's a cel-shaded quality to the models that reminds me a little of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

Brothership includes many side quests which develop the world and often lead to comedic cutscenes. However, some of these sidequests have time limits which require the player to drop everything and complete a specific task.

As you may have guessed, Shipshape Island is a ship-shaped island in Mario and Luigi: Brothership that sails Concordia’s currents, leading you to the

This structure allows for two fundamental truths that keep the combat in Brothership engaging for most of its runtime. Watching Mario and Luigi do stuff together is really charming, and putting quick-time events in turn-based battles makes the proceedings feel just a bit more exciting. Stats don’t dictate whether an attack lands, you do.

Brothership adds more RPG depth to the series, but its flat writing and overabundance of gimmicks drag it down.

Mario & Luigi: Brothership launches November 7, 2024 on Nintendo Switch. Tiny nitpick: we wish Luigi selected his moves with the B button. That’s the one time in the game that the A button controls Luigi, and it regularly messes up our rhythm for the attack actions.

W ay back when I used to play Mario & Luigi RPGs on the Nintendo DS, I always got a kick out of how they cleverly blended controls for both Mario and Luigi with button-mapping. As

The Mario & Luigi series came as a shock to players when it first debuted way back in 2003 with Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga on the Game Boy Advance, bringing the famous plumber and his brother, Luigi,

Boss fights in Mario & Luigi Brothership are unique and challenging with twists to keep you on your toes. Gorombula, Pipegunk, and Extension Corps are standout bosses that offer engaging gameplay mechanics.

Beating Bowser is always a challenge for the Mario brothers and this is no less true than in his newest appearance in Mario & Luigi: Brothership.

One of the earliest in the game is Twistee Island, which players must complete in order to obtain hammers for Mario & Luigi. Since starting the game without hammers limits your ab