Dear Readers,
New Mario & Luigi game! This is my favourite RPG series and this is the 5th one! As a fan I'm well served!
At a glance, it looks like loading times are minuscule and you can press R to fast forward through cut scenes and advance text. How considerate!
Headphones are a must too. This is Yoko Shimomura's work we're talking about here! From the left speaker, when can hear Luigi whimper as he's a bit too scared to go into the dark dusty room with one of the Toads. Seriously, try headphones!
While dealing with a mouse, Luigi unwittingly knocks open a book that unleashes characters from the Paper Mushroom Kingdom into the Mario & Luigi world. The music outside is very pleasant. Soon, we're in the throne room for the next scene where we meet Paper Princess Peach. A very mellow classical rendition of Peach's Castle from Super Mario 64 plays here.
Mario, Princess Peach, the Toads and Starlow are here. Luigi explains the story to them with Charles Martinet's humorous Italian gibberish that I've come to love from the series :)
The stained glass image of Peach is very pretty here. The blue Toad here loves it.
Mario & Luigi go all blushy and shy when they're introduced to Paper Peach.
You get a guide from one of the Toads and can read up on tutorials and story recaps anytime you want.
The first thing to do is to gather all the Paper Toads. They got scared when they appeared in this world so it's time to round them up. First ones are in the castle lobby. The music that plays here sounds like you're going to do a serious mission and is quite fitting. I've seen a mission like this from the E3 presentation last Summer and that one had a timer. This one doesn't, being an introductory one I suppose.
The Paper Toads I rescue tell me about the other Paper Toads who weren't so lucky. They got captured by Goombas from this world. Serious sinister music plays here. Next thing to do is head out and rescue them and find Paper Mario too. I wonder if Paper Luigi makes an appearance? From what I've seen so far it doesn't really look like it.
I head to another part of the castle where the Toads are dealing with Nabbit, who's stolen some Bros. Attacks. Sad music plays here while the Toads mourn their loss. It's a good thing he didn't take them all, we still get the 3D Red Shell and the Fire Flower. They seem to work similar to the last game, Dream Team Bros. and you don't have to practise them either. Just select it from the pause menu.
A nice touch here is they way they spell "Practise" using an s. This is a true European localisation alright! :)
There's a shop in the castle too but I don't buy anything yet. One of the counters isn't open yet either.
You can save anytime by tapping the icon on the touch screen. Very convenient! It doesn't take long to save either, so that's nice.
On the way out, I meet Toadette. She's made a little papercraft Mario and promises to make me a life sized one. How nice of her! :) She says she's getting pretty good at adventuring. It's true! This time last year we went on lots of nice adventures with her and Captain Toad.
Just then, the Paper Toads I rescued catch up with me and give me the Copy Block. They made it in their little chamber in the castle. Toadette gets all inspired and goes back with them to see what they can create together.
Outside the castle, I meet Lakitu. A good Lakitu. Princess Peach has asked him to keep a record of things. Looks like he's keeping his own game diary!
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