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Mario & Luigi: Brothership review: The world is quirky and colourful but isn't the usual sugar rush of ideas and imagination, writes PETER HOSKIN
PETER HOSKIN: Mario, who even are you any more? Roleplaying spin-offs from the moustachioed plumber's mainline platforming games used to be quite uncommon.
Roleplaying spin-offs from the moustachioed plumber’s mainline platforming games used to be quite uncommon, but in the past year alone we’ve had three releases that put talking and turn-based battling ahead of good ol’-fashioned jumping. It starts with our jobbing heroes being sucked through an interdimensional wormhole and dumped into a world of cutesy critters whose society has quite literally fractured into a number of islands There are a few niggling graphical bugs — like bowstrings that pass through people’s bodies (ouch) — but overall, much like the 2022 sequel Horizon Forbidden West, this is now a current-gen game with which to wow your village elders.
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