Mario & Luigi: Brothership Review - IGN

Apart from its great battle system, Mario & Luigi: Brothership is an incredibly disappointing revival that suffers from boring gameplay and dialogue, a bloated runtime, shockingly bad performance, and a fundamental misunderstanding of what made the series great.

[Profchaos]

Oha no
In short seems like a rpg aimed at very young kids around 6 and long-term Mario players are likely to be bored

[OtterX]

Ouch. That's disappointing.

[ActualWhiteMan]

I agree completely. Game is straight BORING

[Knushwood Butt]

That can't be; it's got, 'Mario', in the title and is published by Nintendo.

[Plague-Doctor27]

That just means it got 2 bonus points and is really a 3/10

[-Foxtrot]

Nintendo? Mario? A 5? IGN?

Have I slipped into another dimension here

[badz149]

no worries, EDGE will bring balance to the force by giving it a 10/10 Masterpiece as usual

[Hotpots]

"an incredibly disappointing revival that suffers from boring gameplay and dialogue, a bloated runtime, shockingly bad performance, and a fundamental misunderstanding of what made the series great."

lol why does it sounds like the reviews were switched with another recently launched game

[CrimsonWing69]

Whoa, what now?

[RaiderNation]

Filler. Just as I suspected.

[Relientk77]

I don't know the last time IGN gave a Mario game a score that low. Damn

[goken]

I think the word you are thinking of is “Never”.
We live in different times

[RiseNShine]

Looks like Nintendo has it's attention somewhere else like Switch 2 and didn't care at all to make a decent game for a console on it's last legs.

[Sgt_Slaughter]

The game currently has an average score of 80 on Metacritic, yet this is the one you're basing your random opinion on? That's like only trusting the 10th dentist instead of consulting with the other 9 that recommended a toothpaste.

[PRIMORDUS]

I wasn't expecting a 5/10 I would have thought at least 8/10 😕

[gold_drake]

wow, ign giving a mario game a 5 ?

this is gonna have consequueeences.

[Snookies12]

Awww man... I freaking love this series, and was so looking forward to a new entry. Really disappointing to hear.

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

If Sony or MS released game with this level of production quality, it would be called overpriced, and slammed for its performance issues. Metacritic average is 80 after over 50 reviews. Seems this reviewer didn’t care about giving Nintendo its usual free passes.

[Kneetos]

Nintendo doesn't get free passes, Sony and Microsoft have been jerking themselves off for years about how their "power" and "high frames" are super important to them, they better deliver

[badz149]

"Nintendo doesn't get free passes"

hahahaha...nice one

[GoodGuy09]

A new modern game that stales in comparison to the older games? Seems about right.

[goken]

5 from IGN for a nintendo mario game?

Probably means lack of non binary characters 😅

[Good-Smurf]

I did play a bit of leaked game on emulator and, it definitely felt very handholding during exploring.
I don't remember Superstar Saga being nearly as handholding or slow paced.
Dialogue also cringy and not funny when it needs to land one and the game gives you the option to fast forward the conversations and cutscenes barely 30 minutes into the game, so they knew its boring to sit through.
I knew the handholding nature of their 1st party games will eventually bites them in their asses, no amount of "it's made for children" excuse would be enough to give them another free pass.
Shame since I really dig the looks of the game.
I'll go back and play some more though as it stands atm it certainly not as good as Superstar Saga, not even close.
Say what you want about IGN reviews, but this guy actually brings up many valid criticisms in the game, harsh but still fair.

[cthulhucultist]

While I will be getting this at some point for my daughter to introduce her to this series, it is disappointing to hear that the game has so many issues, especially in performance.

Switch really needs a replacement asap.

[Chocoburger]

Why not introduce her to the GBA original or 3DS remake? The first game was great. Sequel on DS, is as well.

[cthulhucultist]

That would be ideal but she has no interest in playing with my old nintendo devices (Nintendo DS, game boy pocket still work but 3ds doesnt unfortunately)

[Chocoburger]

Ah, too bad, hopefully one day she'll be willing to enjoy the classic hardware we grew up with. Until then, I hope she enjoys M&L: Brothership on Switch.