So basically just a M&L crossover with Doctor Who.
Okay so everyone says this game is so underrated, it's so dark and morbid, the best in the Mario & Luigi series. As an avid fan and player of this series, I have to say none of that is particularly true. While this is still a really good game with everything that makes AlphaDreams series great, it gets a lot wrong compared to it's prequel and successors. Despite what people say, there's not really much going on in the story aside from the beginning and end. Sure at the beginning you learn the evil Shroob race has conquered the past, but then not a whole lot really happens until the final 2 sections of the game. They kinda just keep introducing a bunch of new areas/concepts and substitute actual plot points with boss fights, which is why there's so god damn many. The plot itself is yes, admittedly a bit more foreboding and morbid in some scenes, but overall it's still mostly classic goofy Mario action (which is still great). Also call me a bad player, but this game just went all out with the difficulty (although I never experienced such trouble and need-for-perfection in the other titles). Having the baby characters seems like a good concept, but honestly you can tell it was just done because they had 4 buttons on the DS, and having 4 controlled characters at once makes both puzzle-solving and combat way too finicky. Despite how god damn precise they require you to be, there's a ton of great new Bros attacks, items, and fair enough it does expand pretty well on Superstar Saga and was a stepping stone for how the series continued to progress. In the end, I wouldn't quite say this game is super underrated, it does suffer from quite a few issues but it still does most of the good things about the M&L series, meaning it's still worth your time if you enjoy them.
Okay so everyone says this game is so underrated, it's so dark and morbid, the best in the Mario & Luigi series. As an avid fan and player of this series, I have to say none of that is particularly true. While this is still a really good game with everything that makes AlphaDreams series great, it gets a lot wrong compared to it's prequel and successors. Despite what people say, there's not really much going on in the story aside from the beginning and end. Sure at the beginning you learn the evil Shroob race has conquered the past, but then not a whole lot really happens until the final 2 sections of the game. They kinda just keep introducing a bunch of new areas/concepts and substitute actual plot points with boss fights, which is why there's so god damn many. The plot itself is yes, admittedly a bit more foreboding and morbid in some scenes, but overall it's still mostly classic goofy Mario action (which is still great). Also call me a bad player, but this game just went all out with the difficulty (although I never experienced such trouble and need-for-perfection in the other titles). Having the baby characters seems like a good concept, but honestly you can tell it was just done because they had 4 buttons on the DS, and having 4 controlled characters at once makes both puzzle-solving and combat way too finicky. Despite how god damn precise they require you to be, there's a ton of great new Bros attacks, items, and fair enough it does expand pretty well on Superstar Saga and was a stepping stone for how the series continued to progress. In the end, I wouldn't quite say this game is super underrated, it does suffer from quite a few issues but it still does most of the good things about the M&L series, meaning it's still worth your time if you enjoy them.