IGN reviewers be like "Paper Mario fans will be delighted with this loving homage!" because it looks and plays like Paper Mario. I'm a paper Mario fanboy (recently indoctrinated into Mario & Luigi, but I digress), and Bug Fables is the real deal. This game has is original, has a wonderful, multifaceted, engaging combat system, is cute, and has side quests that I actually want to play (remember Troubles in Thousand Year Door?). You can even play a challenging hard mode on your first run if you want to. My playthrough clocked 30 hours, so it's fully featured, too. Would recommend!

Oh, it's... slow. It's real slow. Movement's slow. Combat loads slow. Mario jumps slow. In the dream world, he jumps even slower. It's... slow. Even if a battle lasts one turn, if you measure it in seconds, it's far too many.

The need to utilize the 3DS' 3D functionality likely butchered the game performance-wise. And, like... trying to be more accessible to children than the series already was.

Colors are washed out. 3D environments feel small and flat, because they're 3D. Game's not very funny. It's cute but not interesting.