Mario & Luigi RPG 3: tag-teamin' with Bowser's internal organs against Fawful!

Wordherder

So Alphadream's Mario & Luigi series has always been a little odd. The first game had the Bros. use themselves as weapons against beans. The second had them team up with baby versions of themselves against aliens.

So what are they doing for the third? Er.



Well, that wasn't helpful. Maybe you should watch this video instead.

http://ds.ign.com/dor/objects/14286429/mario-luigi-rpg-3/videos/marioandluigirpg3_commercial3.html

We don't know the plot yet, but the whole thing gets kicked off when Bowser eats the Bros. 'bout damn time, eh? But that's not the end of it. Mario and Luigi will do their adventuring inside Bowser. Meanwhile, Bowser wanders the Mushroom Kingdom, kicking ass. Yet somehow they team up.

How? Well, Mario and Luigi can manipulate Bowser's internal organs to make him do things like hoist objects and belch flame. Meanwhile, Bowser can eat things to send to the Bros... in the video, one example has Bowser chugging water to allow Mario and Luigi to swim around obstacles.

Also, people get really fat for some reason. And Fawful!



He seems to be making sure the denizens of the Mushroom Kingdom have fury.




The game comes out Feb. 12 in Japan, though a U.S. release hasn't been set yet.

While we wait, here's some screenshots.

Brainiac 8

Awesome. The reason this series is so great is just because of the wierd and goofy humor.

I haven't ever play partners in time, so I need to search it up before this one is released.

Idoliside

I loved Brothers In Time. Can't wait for this either. The premise looks great.

RichardTauber

Brainiac 8 wrote: »

Awesome. The reason this series is so great is just because of the wierd and goofy humor.

I haven't ever play partners in time, so I need to search it up before this one is released.

Don't. PIT is awful.

Wordherder

RichardTauber wrote: »

Brainiac 8 wrote: »

Awesome. The reason this series is so great is just because of the wierd and goofy humor.

I haven't ever play partners in time, so I need to search it up before this one is released.

Don't. PIT is awful.

Thhhhpt. PIT is damn good.

Personally I prefer Superstar Saga because the tag attacks are more fun and there's plenty of Fawful and Cackletta goodness, but I still had a great time with PIT.

RichardTauber

cloudeagle wrote: »

RichardTauber wrote: »

Brainiac 8 wrote: »

Awesome. The reason this series is so great is just because of the wierd and goofy humor.

I haven't ever play partners in time, so I need to search it up before this one is released.

Don't. PIT is awful.

Thhhhpt. PIT is damn good.

Personally I prefer Superstar Saga because the tag attacks are more fun and there's plenty of Fawful and Cackletta goodness, but I still had a great time with PIT.

Okay. Well, I didn't think PIT was that good. Needed a bit more humor, but it's alright if you don't expect it to be as funny as the previous games.

Rami

This looks amazing. Top - Bowser, Bottom - Inside Bowser = best use of two screens yet.

Behemoth

Oh man, this looks awesome.

I didn't like PIT. It wasn't bad per se, but it wasn't nearly as good as the first one. And the babies were annoying.

Rollout

I wonder how the Bowser-side plot will unveal. What we will go around doing as Bowser, terrorize defenseless toads and eat people? He's not really a 'Let's help everyone on my path' type.

Game looks great anyhow.

Brainiac 8

I have had a love/hate relationship with the baby characters since Yoshi's Island. :P


I agree about the use of the two screens. The whole story of this game is completely silly and crazy....just the way I like these games.

Jurg

Haha, this looks awesome.

My favorite bits from the video were the punch that sends enemies flying, and the part that looks kind like a battle scene from Advance Wars.

Behemoth

Hm, the OP seems to have overlooked the fact that



Fawful is not only back, but appears to be the main villain, using some sort of mind-control helmet:

Brainiac 8

Woo....Fawful!

Golden Yak

This is like the plot of one of those old Mario Bros. cartoons.

...awesome.

Brym

If this game comes out next month in Japan, how have is this the first time I've heard about it? Have I just not been paying attention, or is Nintendo really so apathetic about the hardcore these days that they don't even publicize the few games that interest them?

On a less contentious note, this looks awesome. PIT was a letdown for me, but Superstar Saga is probably my favorite GBA game. The premise of this one sounds much better than babies.

Peewi

Brym wrote: »

If this game comes out next month in Japan, how have is this the first time I've heard about it? Have I just not been paying attention, or is Nintendo really so apathetic about the hardcore these days that they don't even publicize the few games that interest them?

I think it might just have been you not paying attention. They released footage of it back when they announced the DSi.

Brainiac 8

Golden Yak wrote: »

This is like the plot of one of those old Mario Bros. cartoons.

...awesome.

Now if only they would put in Super Sushi. :P

Brym: It was announced along with Punch Out and S&P2 during the Nintendo Conference in Japan during October/November. It looks fantastic. :^:

maximumzero

The thought of playing pretty much the entire game in the guts of another character is creepy as fuck.

I mean, I had trouble with Jabu Jabu for fuck's sake.

That being said, I need to finish the original, which I've never done.

Kor

PiT was okay. I certainly prefer SSS.

My biggest complaint with PiT was that there were tons of sections where you sent the babies off by themselves for a couple of rooms per dungeon. So by time I got to the end game, the babies were like 15 levels higher than the big bros.

Also, I loved the variations of Jump/Hammer/Fire-Bolt Ball in SSS. In PiT the Fire Flower became an item and the hammers became much more dominant.

Note that my alltime favorite moment is in SSS when Luigi gets the Boltball. It was like the perfect answer to Mario's Fireball.

Wordherder

Behemoth wrote: »

Hm, the OP seems to have overlooked the fact that Fawful is not only back, but appears to be the main villain, using some sort of mind-control helmet:

Oh holy fuck. That's awesome. Bowser actually fights a Fawful-ized baddie in the video, but I thought "naw, couldn't be."

Kor

So do we have any idea what this bar in the bottom right is?

Food

My main complaint with PiT was that it was a completely linear RPG. There was no backtracking or exploring or secrets to discover which was a big downer. I still thought it was pretty fun overall, though.

Now, this game looks amazing. Can't wait for it to come out.

Wordherder

Kor wrote: »

So do we have any idea what this bar in the bottom right is?

Looks kinda like a seatbelt.

Kor

Oh, Something else that gave SSS that extra umpf over PiT.

Mario's Pelvic thrust when he leveld up. I laughed so freaking hard every single time.

Food

cloudeagle wrote: »

Kor wrote: »

So do we have any idea what this bar in the bottom right is?

Looks kinda like a seatbelt.

Seems to me that when Mario or Luigi does a certain thing during battle their side of the bar grows a little and when they meet you get to use a super attack.

Zealous One

Awesome! I love the Mario & Luigi games, and it looks like this one's zany as ever. I was worried the world might not be as colorful or varied if Mario and Luigi were inside Bowser for the whole game, but they're changing up the appearances well according to the video. It looks like the Bros. spend some time outside as well, given a few segments.

The best thing about the trailer is that apparently Bowser's adventuring M.O. is to punch the bejeezus out of everything in sight. Enemies, rocks, walls, castles, none of you are safe!

commathe

As long as the fucking babies arent in this one, sign me up. Fuck partners in time.

Spoit

The biggest problem that I had with PiT wasn't the babies themseves, but the fact that the x and y buttons were really annoying to hit quickly on the original DS. It might be better on the lite, I should probably replay it

urahonky

This looks great, and I loved PiT myself.

UncleSporky

I am envisioning a situation where Fawful has some device made specifically to kill the Bros., and partly out of the goodness of his heart, partly from a desire to eat them, Bowser decides the safest place to keep them is in his stomach. The last place anyone would look!

Gilder

I'm hoping Fawful doesn't get played out. He was great in the first game because that was all he was in. He's still great because he hasn't been tainted beyond that. If they ruin him in 3 then that's all that anyone is going to remember the game as. The game that ruined Fawful.

Brainiac 8

UncleSporky wrote: »

I am envisioning a situation where Fawful has some device made specifically to kill the Bros., and partly out of the goodness of his heart, partly from a desire to eat them, Bowser decides the safest place to keep them is in his stomach. The last place anyone would look!

One of the press releases mentioned that Bowser didn't realize he ate them. I wonder if Fawful hypnotized Bowser or something and made him do it. Then the story goes from there.

Behemoth

Gilder wrote: »

I'm hoping Fawful doesn't get played out. He was great in the first game because that was all he was in. He's still great because he hasn't been tainted beyond that. If they ruin him in 3 then that's all that anyone is going to remember the game as. The game that ruined Fawful.

I don't think it's possible to ruin Fawful.

Unless he started speaking perfect English.

Fencingsax

Well, it looks like the Bros have been hit by a shrink ray or something. Either that, or Bowser is bigger on the inside than he is on the outside.

RockinX

I, too liked PiT a lot, but it was just very limited in Bros. Attacks and overall not nearly as fun as SSS.

By the way, Fawful was in PiT. He sold some badges, I think.

RockinX

Fencingsax wrote: »

Well, it looks like the Bros have been hit by a shrink ray or something. Either that, or Bowser is bigger on the inside than he is on the outside.

Just like houses in every other RPG.

Wordherder

There's one scene where you have to set a castle on fire with Bowser, and Bowser's the size of the castle.

So... maybe growing and shrinking?

Who cares, I'm just looking forward to smacking Bowser's pancreas to make him do crazy shit.

HenryVape

I think i might be the only person in the world that didnt hate the babies in PIT, i hope they announce a releasedate in Europe soon.But considering how long it takes for games like this to be released in europe, im probably just going to be disapointed.:|
Also is it just me, or would luigi be as tall as bowser in that picture if the straigthened out his legs?

The Wolfman

My only problem with PiT was with the addition of X and Y as the babies buttons. I started getting my thumbs twisted, especially with the more complex Bros. items. I started sticking to the trampoline, simply because it was the easiest to pull off.

RockinX

HenryVape wrote: »

I think i might be the only person in the world that didnt hate the babies in PIT

Not true. I didn't hate them.

Sterica

This might be better than Superstar Saga.

Partners in Time wasn't bad, but it lacked so much charm.