Product Description

Nintendo DS Mario und Luigi

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3717 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Nintendo
• Model: 73594
• Released on: 2006-02-10
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Subtitled in: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .50" h x 5.25" w x 4.75" l, .20 pounds

Features

• Sprache: D

Manufacturer's Description
If you thought their last adventure was insane? In this sequel to Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, the brothers travel back in time to retrieve Princess Peach, only to come face to face with baby versions of themselves, the princess and Bowser. Teaming up with their young selves will soon send Mario and Luigi on a quest of lunatic proportions as players must control both the adult AND baby versions of the Mushroom Kingdom heroes. Players use the top screen to study the land, keep track of the pair of brothers not under their control or maximize combo moves in battle. With twice the Mario brothers and twice the laughs, this massive sidesplitting adventure could only find a home on the dual screens of the Nintendo DS.

Customer Reviews

Another hilarious outing for gaming's favourite brothers
What can I say about this game other than "amazing!". The 2 DS screens are filled with colourful and sharp cartoon graphics. The music is some of the best ever to come out of a Mario game and the script is absolutely hilarious with real laugh-out-loud moments, that is very rare with games.

'Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time' is the sequel to excellent Gameboy Advance RPG, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. The brothers travel back in time to retrieve Princess Peach, only to come face to face with baby versions of themselves, the princess and Bowser. Teaming up with their young selves send Mario and Luigi on a quest of lunatic proportions as you must control both the adult and baby versions of the Mushroom Kingdom heroes to save the Princess and her castle from the evil Shrooms.

The game will probably take you about 20-25 hours to complete, depending on how much you want to explore and spend battling enemies to gain items and to level-up, so there is plently of content there to get your money's worth. It is also a game where once you start playing, you will be completely engrossed in the story and will be unable to put it down.

The battle system is turn-based, where you will need to take control of all 4 characters (the adult and baby Mario and Luigi) and learn new attacks and use various items as you progress through the game. This is quite a normal way to battle in an RPG game, but some of the boss battles (especially the one at the end) do drag on a little sometimes.

My only minor niggle about M&L:PiT would be that the game doesn't take advantage of the DS's touch screen controls. The game is played entirely using the d-pad and the buttons. It's not a huge problem, but it would have been nice to have had some DS-only touch screen puzzles to make it a little more unique from the previous Mario & Luigi game on the GBA. I'm just hoping that the creators of the next game in the series (Super Paper Mario for the Wii) have kept this in mind and have made something really special.

Overall M&L:PiT is one of the most playable, funny, addictive and best games on the DS and is one that every fan of Nintendo (or at least the Mario series) should own. This game is also much better than New Super Mario Bros.

Nintendo hits another one out the park
The brothers Mario have been reunited again following the fantastic `Superstar Saga' and this time they're joined by their own baby versions. They may be tiny and they may occasionally cry fountains of tears but that doesn't stop them from being formable fighters who can hold their own with their adult counterparts. The hook in `Partners in Time' is the time traveling between the past and present versions of the Toadstool kingdom. The Kingdom of the past has been attacked by aliens, the adult princess has been kidnapped (shock) and the Cobalt Star (the McGuffin of the story) has been broken into various pieces that need to be retrieved.

`Partners in Time' carries on that tradition of legitimately funny scripting set by `Superstar Saga' and most of the play mechanics remain the same. Much like the RPG console versions the handheld games are all about timing. Fights are turn based affairs requiring the player to time out strikes and defends. Players with difficulty getting the rhythm down may find themselves having some difficulties. Each creature type has a slightly different pattern and sometimes multiple attack sequences. It can take some fast reflexes but like most Nintendo games `Partners in Time' is designed to be beaten even by players with modest skills. One of the issues I have is the fact that it can be very difficult to manage all four brothers during combat even after hours of practice. It's actually even harder when the adult and baby version are separated because the adults uses X and Y while the babies use B and A. I found it challenging to get used one set of buttons and suddenly switch to the other especially when you need to switch between adults and babies quickly.

The Mario RPG's have always taken an aesthetic minimalist approach. There are five adjustable character attributes including the enigmatic `Stache'. The brothers can wear one pair of overalls and one badge to help boost stats or give special bonus abilities. Like every RPG made since the dawn of time the brothers will have an ever increasing (and potent) selection of items to choose from as the game progresses. If complexity is your bag the Mario RPG's may disappoint. It's all about simplicity. If anything Partners simplifies the experience even more by creating a more linear experience over `Superstar Saga'. The various collectible bean types have now been eliminated in favor of the generic `bean' so no more bean drinks.

The DS system has been on such a roll of late and `Partners in Time' is just one more five star game in a growing library of great DS games. With this game and others such as animal crossing,viewtiful joe,pheonix wright,resident evil and tetris online the ds sure has a great post xmas line up and its only getting better when mario bros and zelda pokemon and metroid come out this year.

Stop the time and grab a copy!
I only recently bought the DS and i chose M&L:Partners in Time because i played superstar saga game and found it brilliant, so i had to play the next game in the series. it's even funnier than the last game and twice as fun, and i'm only at the Yoshi Island level. my only negative point is that bros combos in Superstar Saga have not made it to ML:PiT and replaced it with items (but they still can be good fun to use)
Final Verdict: Don't waste time, get one now!