Mario & Luigi: Brothership (7th November 2024)

[Hero-of-Time]

47 minutes ago, Glen-i said:

OK, I've only played for an hour, but this needs to be said.

You don't use B to select Luigi's actions in battles, and it's driving me insane! I've been playing this series since the GBA and "Luigi = B" is engraved in my head.

That's a really weird design choice. What do you use instead?

[Glen-i]

1 minute ago, Hero-of-Time said:

That's a really weird design choice. What do you use instead?

A.

But when you're actually attacking, Luigi uses B for his action commands. I keep pressing B to select things for him, and nada.

[Hero-of-Time]

I've been enjoying my time with the game. I've not been playing a lot of it but rather just playing short bursts in between other stuff. Only 20 hours in at the moment and have just reached the 2nd Giant Lighthouse.

I'm loving the animations, especially with Luigi. The guy is hilarious and it's nice to see him being treated with a little more respect in this entry. In the previous entries, it used to annoy me seeing him being cast aside and being used as a joke character but here he is really shining, at least in the early stage of the game.

One thing that continues to annoy me is this series is the enemy HP. I've been grinding levels where I can and even though I'm a fair few levels higher than enemies, they still take a few hits before they are defeated. The damage they do to me is laughable but the time it takes to bring them down should really be a lot quicker than what is.

The battle plug system is really cool and it's something that does help with speeding up the battles. Being able to switch certain ones out and mix and match for different combos allows for some great experimentation. I usually have equipped the one that dishes out more coins and then any other that can increase my damage output. 

So, yeah, still early in but loving the jolly vibes the game is giving off. Plus, I love team IDLE. They are adorable.