onsdag 22 mars 2023

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions (3DS)

 

Big Trouble in Little Beanbean Kingdom

Well, had to pick up these 3DS games before the eshop closes down. So I got the remake of the Game Boy Advance game Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga that started the other Mario RPG-series after Paper Mario. I got the original version on the Virtual Console on the Wii U. Not finished it, played maybe 20 minutes and then almost fell asleep so that didn't end well. Well, 20 hours later in this game and I'm finished. Main story complete.

So story is that during a diplomatic mission from the Beanbean Kingdom, Fawful (who that is is never explained) together with the... witch Cackletta (I assume as well since it's never actually explained where she comes from or why she does what she do) steals Princess Peach voice and escapes back to Beanbean Kingdom to get the Beanstar that will grant Cackletta her wishes. Mario and Luigi is called in to help and with the help of Bowser that finds it insulting that someone else attacked Peach, but his airship gets hijacked by Fawful stranding the Mario Bros at the mountain border between the Mushroom Kingdom and Beanbean Kingdom. Entering the kingdom and the Castle town the Bros drive out Fawful and Cackletta so that Queen Bean can help you together with Prince Parsley that you rescued from an egg at the top of the mountain. 

Well, that was apparently part of Cackletta's plan since she dumped the Bros to fix the plumbing in the castle that somehow released the security around the Beanstar, but when you tried to stop her the Beanstar fragmented into 4 pieces that you now have to get since it appears that Peach was kidnapped while getting to the Beanbean kingdom. Gather the star pieces, some shenanigans to rescue Peach as Cackletta now possessed Bowser and known as Bowletta that gathered his Castle and starts shelling Beanbean Kingdom. The Bros flies up to the castle and fight their way through the koopalings and I gotta say, this is where the game gets hard. It effing cheats. Damn Ludwig and Wendy, that made me put on the Easy mode since can't stand that damn timing attacks both to get to them and then the fights.  Gah, and then then finally you fight Bowletta, that ends with the bros being sucked into the stomach of Bowletta where you gotta fight Cackletta's... true final form I guess, some kind of elemental cloud.

Original version I get and apparently it's her soul

The Bros escapes the castle after defeating the soul and rescuing Bowser. The Bros together with Princess Peach and Toadsworth fly home in the plane with Bowser in tow, credits roll and everything is fine... well, there is another mode, Bowser's minions where the minions from Bowser's cruiser try to gather the troops and find their lord while trying to fight of Fawful and the kooplings that have been brainwashed by Fawful. Basically choose the right minions for the team to fight through 2-4 battles to get on. I played 2 and a half level and just stopped, it might be a distraction and a thing to get the time up to respectable 40 hours, but I'm not gonna do that. I have other games, but the banter between the minions are kinda fun with everyone pushing the main goomba as leader so that they don't have to, the so called aura of stupidity.

Main game is kinda fun, interesting puzzles and such. I wish there was some kinda quick defeat fighting enemies that clearly can't kill you and you will defeat in one hit. Why is Earthbound one of the few games that implemented that feature? Even Paper allowed you to equip a badge that did that. Well, time for another game and as of writing summer vacation is soon upon me with less than a week of working left. Thank god for public work where you get a half day of the day before midsummer

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