there are pipes in the mushroom kingdom that lead to the inside of bowser's body. there's one at the toad town mall. What are we suppose to think of this.

BIS is good. It's got a fun core gimmick thats used well throughout the game (swapping between Bowser in the overworld and M&L inside his body).

There's not much really going on under the hood combat wise outside but thats kinda M&L thing. You aren't doing much outside of using whatever your highest cost bro move and dodging attacks, but honestly its fun to press button and there's interesting attack patterns from enemies and bosses so who am I really to complain. Some bosses do have their own mechanics to keep you from just Pressing Highest Damage Skill but also pressing big damage skill also worked just as well.

If anything I wish they had gone harder with boss mechanics. Some bosses had cool thins like Bowser Swallows Boss > Swiches to M&L > Counter attacking well as M&L launches boss out > boss gets stunned giving bowser multiple rounds of free attacks, but not enough bosses did stuff like this in my opinion.

I also hated all the giant bosses, but thats less of an actual boss problem and more of I Fucking Hate Using DS gimmicks. Stop making me blow into my mic. I swear my stylus is kinda busted because I had my stylus motions just get ghosted soooo many times it drives. And this happens in a lot of things on this game, minigames that use stylus motions and shit all kinda drove me insane. It was only going back to DS/3DS that made me think I hate gameplay related console gimmicks. Please god nintendo if you can hear me no more stupid console gimmicks for switch 2, i really enjoyed that the switch 2 was just a console and i played it on my television and thats it.

Obviously theres nothing to actually write story wise its a fuckin mario game but i do like Bowser being able to talk a lot. Love that guy. They should stop being mean to him. The game has some great sprite work; I THINK i like this game's sprite work more than the remake's art style but i'd be lying if I said the remake was ugly.

Funny, looks nice, cool core gimmick, main gameplay is pretty shallow but pressing a button with a right timing to do bonus damage or dodge damage is one of life's simplest pleasures, and I fucking hate doing stupid DS console gimmicks. Give it a shot, and dont think about how the remake bombed so hard it sank alphadream almost instantly.

This is the most memory-filled M&L game for me. So many wacky characters, great writing, and you can go inside Bowser?! Awesome.
I used to think that RPGs "just wasn't my genre" but looking back at it they were TOTALLY my thing.... if it had Mario on it. I had this, Partners in Time, Paper Mario 64 and TTYD... what a liar.
It looks like I played the wheels off of it too - one file has Mario and Luigi both level 30, Bowser level 28. another file has 12.5 hours, all on level 19. There was probably another file too, judging my my 3DS time count of 55 hours.