I was looking forward to finally be playing this after hearing only good things about it. And as far as presentation goes this is a 10/10. The music is amazing, the spritework is simply at its best and the writing is sharp.
The gameplay department covers a lot of diversity as well as providing the traditional Mario and Luigi formula to the mix. There's half and half segments that swaps over to stylus controls, whether you like that or not is subjective. What I personally wasn't a fan of was the continous swapping to stylus and regular controls through special attacks in any form of battle, again different strokes and the game does give you as much leisure as you need to put away your stylus before going back into the game.
While the writing is excellent and fawful is an entertaining villain he felt underutilised, as the plotline takes a backseat from the halfway point up until the endgame and really all you do is hunt for story stars and backtrack through areas you've already seen for a very good chunk of the remainder of the game. Skipping all the bean collecting and the few scattered collectatons/minigames leaves for a surprisingly short main campaign.
The dungeons however were all great and definitely the highlight and fundamentally Inside Story is super duper solid.
It was a fun run, but I also feel relieved to get away from the occasional boredom through all the less endearing exploration parts by the time I finished it.
The gameplay department covers a lot of diversity as well as providing the traditional Mario and Luigi formula to the mix. There's half and half segments that swaps over to stylus controls, whether you like that or not is subjective. What I personally wasn't a fan of was the continous swapping to stylus and regular controls through special attacks in any form of battle, again different strokes and the game does give you as much leisure as you need to put away your stylus before going back into the game.
While the writing is excellent and fawful is an entertaining villain he felt underutilised, as the plotline takes a backseat from the halfway point up until the endgame and really all you do is hunt for story stars and backtrack through areas you've already seen for a very good chunk of the remainder of the game. Skipping all the bean collecting and the few scattered collectatons/minigames leaves for a surprisingly short main campaign.
The dungeons however were all great and definitely the highlight and fundamentally Inside Story is super duper solid.
It was a fun run, but I also feel relieved to get away from the occasional boredom through all the less endearing exploration parts by the time I finished it.