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Friday, December 02, 2005

Mario and Luigi : Partners in Time

I am officially in love with my DS (PSP go to hell, haven't turned it on in months!) why? cos of Mario and Luigi! The original M&L was a GBA game called (superstar saga) that I never really got to completing. Essentially a hybrid between RPG, action, platform and everything in between, M&L:PiT lets you play as all 4 brothers (what?! there's only 2 right? wrong! there's a time hole in mushroom kingdom and so the younger baby M&L are partnered with their older counterparts!). Now this makes for some very interesting puzzles and gameplay mechanics, including wonderful combo attacks. Using both screens is great too. The top screen is either a map or a chronicle of the younger brothers as they venture off in places only they can reach to (eg small holes, small platforms etc). But the best thing about this game is it's sense of humour! The game seriously is funny... very very funny. Not since the good old days of monkey island has a game made me laugh so much.... until now the funnies bit has been 2 hammer brothers that talk in l337, making for the funniest and freshest dialogue I've seen in a video game for AGES:
"AREA RESTRICTED. ALL NOOB INTRUDERS 2 B HAXORED BY US L33T HAMM3R BROZ.! WE R TEH SHROOB ALLIES. WE ROXOR U AND THEN ROFL. THEN U AM CRY. WE RECEIVE ORDERS THRU ANTENNAS ON THESE L33T HELMES. THEY R HOTNESS. WE MUST OBEY ALL ORDERS. WE LIKE 2 PWN NOOBS 4 TEH MASTER SHROOBZORZ."

Thank you Alpha Dream and Nintendo. Thank you very much.

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