Journal Apreche's Journal: Mario + Luigi Superstar Saga 2
Ok, so I went out yesterday to try to buy $85 worth of video games with $60. I suceeded in not getting Mario Party 5, but getting only Mario + Luigi Superstar Saga. I found it at best buy for a hot price of $25. Whoah, is this game the ultimate awesome.
Ok, if you are a big mario fan, you will love this game. If you aren't a mario fan, what's wrong with you? I hope this game will turn you into one.
Here's the premise, you play as both Mario and Luigi at the same time. The game plays a lot like Mario RPG (I never played Paper Mario, it might borrow from that, but I can't say). Pressing A makes the character in front perform an action and B makes the character in back do an action. Pressing Start switches Mario + Luigi. You can press L to change the action of the character in back. This lets you do spin jumps, high jumps, and other things.
There are two parts to the game really, the overworld and combat. In the overworld it's a 2d platformer with a semi-3/4 view. Think the angle in Ninja Turtles 2 arcade. Now there are lots of puzzles and platform tasks you have to perform with the brothers. Like jumping from here to there, hitting blocks with your head. Getting around obstacles to new areas. That sort of stuff.
Then there are bad guys you see walking around. Touching them starts combat. If you touch them a bad way, then you might start combat stunned. And if you jump on top of the bad guy to start the battle, then before combat begins all the enemies take damage.
Now combat isn't the usual RPG boring combat. You use timed button presses to inflict and avoid more damage. The best part about combat is the bros. powers. Instead of magic or specials or anything like that, there are bros. powers. They use up special bros. points that can be revived with syrup. Exactly like flower points in Mario RPG. What they do is both bros team up for an attack. To successfuly complete the attack, however, you must execute correct and well timed button presses. So first mario will jump on luigis head, you have to press A right before he lands on luigi, then luigi moves the the right and you press b just as mario goes over him, then press A right above the enemy for huge damage! If you fail on all 3 you do like 1 damage, the better you do, the more damage. The best part is this. The game helps you by slowing the action down when it's time to push a button and by signaling which button to press. There are obtions to use both, just 1, or none of these helpers. YOu can have it just slow down. You can have it just signal the buttons. You can have it do both or neither. The less help you ask from the game the more powerful and the less bros point you use! Isn't that the awesome and genius?!?! You know it.
Oh yeah of course the gameplay isn't the only awesomeness. I went into a cave, and they played the music from world 1-2, but remixed slightly for betterness. I almost cried. There was a mini-game with two hammer bros. and a jump rope, and progress was indicated by a flag going up a pole, and the castle was in the background. When I won, there were fireworks. The old school world 1-1 mario theme is also played in many places. The old skool nostalgie is overwhelmingly the awesome and super excellent. Also, there are a lot of funny luigi jokes. Koopa's crew doesn't even call him luigi, they call him green guy. It's funny because they're joking about luigi's non-primariness openly. This game will make you laugh right from the start when you see mario for the first time.
So, I haven't even beaten this game yet, in fact I've beaten like 1 area. And I can safely say it is the super amazing. No GameBoy Player or Gameboy Advance/SP should be without Mario + Luigi Superstar Saga.
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Sounds like a decent game - I might actually get it now. I don't like the standard way RPGs handle combat. The button timing idea seems like it adds a flavor that I would enjoy.
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