Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story

[Thulius]

Didn't feel like necrobumping the old thread. The Wikipedia article gives a good enough plot summary, it's as off the wall as ever and never takes itself too seriously.

Been playing this for a few hours now and it's amazing. I've heard it's better than the first in the series and I'm starting to agree. Bowser is tons of fun to play. His normal attacks are both charge types, which put me off at first, but they've tightened up the timing for action commands significantly. To compensate they've added 4 "tiers" of accuracy; OK, Good, Great and Excellent. Excellents are incredibly strict on some moves, and with charges they're a huge risk/reward. Don't expect to master the timing for any given attack after 2 minutes of practice.

The Mario Bros. play pretty much the same as they do in the first game, aside from the aforementioned timing changes. I haven't really gotten much playtime with them yet, so I can't say much about their new moves.

Honestly my only complaint so far is that the giant bowser fights require use of the mic, but it's nothing too extreme and the fights themselves are awesome, so whatever. Amazing game, highly recommended if you own a DS.

[Kaisha]

Any idea how long into the game you need to be before using Mario & Luigi in the world itself? About 5 hours into the game, and they're still stuck in you know what.

[Thulius]

No clue, only been playing for about 4 hours myself.

[Kaisha]

Shame, I'm loving the game, but can't help but feel that the stars are taking the backseat this time around. All I've had them do the last while is just that arm-muscle minigame, and that got old after the first three times.

[Kenai]

I love this game so much, I had a hard time putting it down last night and tonight. This just might be my GotY, it's just so fun to play. I have literally no complaints about it at this time.

It helps that Fawful is the greatest evil villain in the entire universe. I actually like his new catch phrase even more, which I didn't think would be possible.

[Kaisha]

I HAVE CHORTLES!


Fucking love the writing for that guy.

Finally got M&L outside of Bowser 5.5 hours into the game. About time I get free reign of where I take the bros.

[Thulius]

These challenge minigames were not made for normal people, oh god.

[Kaisha]

Referring to that dice-room thinger in bowser you can access as M&L?

[Thulius]

Referring to that dice-room thinger in bowser you can access as M&L?

Yeah, and Bowser gets similar challenges later on. B rank rewards are complete trash, just an insignificant amount of coins. I've A ranked a few of them and the rewards for those aren't even that great.

[Kaisha]

Is it good for levelling up at least? M&L are severely underlevelled, and I ain't in the mood to go mob hunting now that I can let them roam on the overworld.

[Thulius]

No exp from the challenges or the gauntlet. If you just got outside though you won't have much trouble catching M&L up to Bowser, you'll be playing as them for a while.

[Kiarax]

The battle as Bowser where you tilt the DS sideways was the greatest thing ever. Please tell me there is more battles like that later on.

[Yuri-G]

did you all buy this, or acquire it through "other" means? because I hear it has some of the fiercest anti-piracy protection ever.

[Charismatic]

It doesn't seem to be very fierce lol...

[Kiarax]

Working fine on CycloDS. Using 1.55b1 firmware + AR code to bypass the protection, apparently it can crash after saving sometimes (music continues but screen just hangs on black), but I haven't ran into it yet. Also released a new beta firmware apparently that fixes it without need a patch/AR code to bypass.

[Thulius]

The battle as Bowser where you tilt the DS sideways was the greatest thing ever. Please tell me there is more battles like that later on.

There are more, and they are incredible. Just finished the second one myself.

[Yuri-G]

Working fine on CycloDS. Using 1.55b1 firmware + AR code to bypass the protection, apparently it can crash after saving sometimes (music continues but screen just hangs on black), but I haven't ran into it yet. Also released a new beta firmware apparently that fixes it without need a patch/AR code to bypass.

damn, they fixed it that fast?

thanks, that's great to hear. I'll be getting my copy tonight. eveything points to this game being a huge improvement on the disappointing (although still fun) PiT.

[Kiarax]

It is definitely better than Partners in Time so far. Bowser is really fun to play as (and, avoiding spoilers, he has a second battle mode for certain bosses) that's a total blast to do. Mario & Luigi is same as always, although timings are a little stricter. I couldn't say whether it tops Superstar Saga yet, since I haven't really got a good chance to play as Mario & Luigi, only have the first 2 bro moves.

[Correction]

did you all buy this, or acquire it through "other" means? because I hear it has some of the fiercest anti-piracy protection ever.

This game was worth my money. The animation/writing/gameplay are all top-notch and it definitely is the best of the M&L series.

[Lebzile]

Didn't work on no$gba with the AR code, or I put the wrong code in, but it does work on Desemu without any codes or patches, just.. extremely laggy.