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GBA | Action | Mario & Luigi

Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Nintendo
Release Date: 11/28/2005
Genre: Action
Number of Players:
ESRB Rating: Everyone
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GRAPHICS: 4.5
SOUND: 4.5
CONTROL: 3.5
FUN FACTOR 4.0
AVG USER SCORE 4.5
AVG CRITIC SCORE 4.0

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First Look: Mario & Luigi

First Look by STARDINGO | 06/11/2003 | 13:56:09 PM PST

This ain?t your slightly older cousin?s Mario Bros. game! It?s actually an RPG, kinda sorta.

Chicken con broccoli! Weird is the watchword with Mario and Luigi, a strange 2D platformer/RPG hybrid creature cut from Paper Mario?s scrap papyrus. You play as both brothers (together or separate), wandering around in a top-down traditional RPG-ish perspective, climbing on each other?s shoulders and using each other?s heads to get through puzzle-laden environments. Why? ?Cuz Princess Peach has been captured by a witch, that?s why. When you meet an enemy, the game switches to an ?active time battle? mode, as each brother takes turns smacking enemies in order to earn experience, build skills, and bolster their hit point meters. The twist: When enemies try to smack you back, you can tap a button and hop over their attacks in real time. It?s a bizarre but promising twist on the plumbers? profession.