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[Bragr]

But the main story mode though... it's too babyish and I know I'm playing a Nintendo game but Nintendo themselves know how to not go too far in this regard and make it feel like a game for everyone. Ubisoft don't.
I'm not sure why anyone would be interested in a poor mans open world with boring puzzles.

Yeah they really could have made some more interesting puzzles, it's so simplistic it does feel patronizing to play this as an adult at times.

The biggest issue I am running into is that the game struggles to engage me, it doesn't make me think, you run into battles over and over, but in 95% of them, you don't need to pay attention, Luigi's and Mario's overwatch abilities are so OP they annihilate everything. Reminds me of Final Fantasy, where you know you gonna win the battle before it even starts.

I like the game though, but it's a game you should play slowly, if you sit for long stretches and play, the high frequency of simple battles over and over wears you out.

And why didn't they introduce Bowser earlier?

 

[mcjmetroid]

Yeah they really could have made some more interesting puzzles, it's so simplistic it does feel patronizing to play this as an adult at times.

The biggest issue I am running into is that the game struggles to engage me, it doesn't make me think, you run into battles over and over, but in 95% of them, you don't need to pay attention, Luigi's and Mario's overwatch abilities are so OP they annihilate everything. Reminds me of Final Fantasy, where you know you gonna win the battle before it even starts.

I like the game though, but it's a game you should play slowly, if you sit for long stretches and play, the high frequency of simple battles over and over wears you out.

And why didn't they introduce Bowser earlier?

Yes it's a little too easy as well. I'm on the hardest difficulty and refusing to buy items from the shop.

I do like the game overall as well. I may be quite hard on it but it's like the paper Mario situation since thousand year door.. instead of improving the parts the game was good at . They change tack entirely.

 

[ADiTAR]

Started this with the trial period. Does the game gets harder? or more beautiful?
The first game, maybe I remember it wrongly, looked great. This looks drab and just bad compared to what I remember.

 

[th4tguy]

Going open world didn’t work in this games favor compared to the first one.
I’m close to finishing this game for about a year now but just can’t seem to slog my way through it.

 

[WhiteWaterM00se]

My whole issue with the game:

1.) would have sold better if waiting until switch 2 launch (I realize this was likely a Switch Pro game)

2.) The gameplay while interesting, I would have preferred a game like Mario Rabbids 1 and incorporated:

-multiplayer,
-more Nintendo characters.
-“tackle the game any way you want”. Not just one way to win.

 

[ADiTAR]

I'm also missing the ranking for each battle.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

My whole issue with the game:

1.) would have sold better if waiting until switch 2 launch (I realize this was likely a Switch Pro game)

2.) The gameplay while interesting, I would have preferred a game like Mario Rabbids 1 and incorporated:

-multiplayer,
-more Nintendo characters.
-“tackle the game any way you want”. Not just one way to win.

As a player, and not a salesperson working at either Ubisoft or Nintendo, why does this matter at all? It certainly doesn't have anything to do with the content or your enjoyment of the game.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Started this with the trial period. Does the game gets harder? or more beautiful?
The first game, maybe I remember it wrongly, looked great. This looks drab and just bad compared to what I remember.

Because it's so much more wide open than the first game, the detail in the landscapes and exploration does seem heavily scaled back.

 

[ADiTAR]

Because it's so much more wide open than the first game, the detail in the landscapes and exploration does seem heavily scaled back.

maybe I'm just in the first area, but it feels pretty much the same. Still why does it have to be so drab? I get there's no sunshine in the first area, but it doesn't feel like it's properly lit.

 

[TransTrender]

I don't believe any of the reviewers actually played this game.
The first one is an absolute masterpiece, but this? This one completely missed the mark. From a 10/10 for the first game and excited for future releases to 1/10 do not care anymore.

 

[WhiteWaterM00se]

As a player, and not a salesperson working at either Ubisoft or Nintendo, why does this matter at all? It certainly doesn't have anything to do with the content or your enjoyment of the game.

Reason I mentioned it, was Ubisoft indicated this didn’t sell well. Likely resulting in the end of the series.

If they were going to radically change gameplay as they did. IMO, it would have gone over with the audience better if it was a new gen and a fresh start so to speak.

If it played more similarly to M&R1 on Switch, it may have sold better imo on OG Switch.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Reason I mentioned it, was Ubisoft indicated this didn’t sell well. Likely resulting in the end of the series.

If they were going to radically change gameplay as they did. IMO, it would have gone over with the audience better if it was a new gen and a fresh start so to speak.

If it played more similarly to M&R1 on Switch, it may have sold better imo on OG Switch.

I sincerely doubt it's the end of the series.

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[ADiTAR]

I don't believe any of the reviewers actually played this game.
The first one is an absolute masterpiece, but this? This one completely missed the mark. From a 10/10 for the first game and excited for future releases to 1/10 do not care anymore.

I just feels very different than the first, esp the artstyle. The first one everything looked smooth, here it's all very rough and edges everywhere. It's like the engine regressed.

I'm just disappointed. Def cooked too much in the over, should've came out 3 years after the previous entry and evolved thing, not change.

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

We've had this one since launch, and my son played it for a while but I still haven't.

Just watching him play it turned me off from the game a bit...I love the first game, but the lack of a grid for the combat makes this feel less like a systematic strategic game. I also loved the original world design, the way it was like one long puzzle path; that was nice for the genre.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

this is the only game in a loooooong time i put down for good after a couple hours.

i feel like all the changes they made from the first game are bad.

probably killed the franchise.