Plenty of time for that, though: the game's not out until 2016.Pounce and climb through dozens of colorful courses! Multiply the fun by teaming up with or competing against friends locally** or online*** to reach each stage’s goal.

I'm sure I'll play it eventually, but the new features and additions sadly aren't exciting enough to make me want to run out and buy it. I'll remain cautiously optimistic about it. And as the third Mario RPG on 3DS, Nintendo seems to be pumping these things out at a steady clip. It feels a lot like Dream Team, which I wasn't crazy about. The papercraft section described above had a five part tutorial I had to sit through, which wasn't much fun. Too early to say, really, but the demo build was pretty jam packed with explanations. The last Mario & Luigi game was stuffed with tutorials. The brothers dodged it by jumping up and grabbing onto Paper Mario, who had turned into a paper plane. He also charged at Mario and Luigi, chucking goop from Super Mario Sunshine. Luigi hit him with a hammer, Mario jumped on his head, Paper Mario threw shurikens at him. I fought Petey Piranha in a good old fashioned turn-based tussle, and it was just like the old days.

And the one I played was a little long and tedious, but it might be a nice change of pace from the typical turn-based battling. You have to watch your attack power, and return to a toad station (where you play a little rhythm mini game) to top up. This paper-craft Mario can slam into giant cardboard goombas, and thrown at downed enemies. Mario and Luigi ride on the back of a giant cardboard Mario tank, which is carried around by an army of toads. The last Mario & Luigi had crazy 3D boss battles with a giant Luigi. It's quite an interesting twist, I guess. You might face off against a normal goomba and a paper goomba, and they'll have different attacks. The three Mario brothers then play tennis, beating a ball against the paperised enemy. One turns the enemy into a sheet of paper and sticks it to a wall. Non-paper Mario and Luigi can still do those double-team Bros attacks like normal, but now Paper Mario can initiate trio attacks. You control him with Y and he can split himself into multiple copies to improve his attack stats. He's stood at the back, and contributes like another team member. So how does Paper Mario work in battle, when these games are normally about only two characters? And it shows: it very much looks, plays, and feels like a Mario & Luigi game with Paper Mario as a cameo, rather than the other way around. Who's developing it?Īlpha Dream, the developers of all the Mario & Luigi games, is behind this one. I'm sure it will be explained exhaustively in the final game. So a little 2D Mario peels off the page and enters the real world. I guess the Mario brothers find a book about Mario. What crazy story has Nintendo come up with to merge these two stories together? And paper versions of Bowser and Peach and other characters appear too. So, the brothers are joined by a paper thin version of Mario. It's a mix up of the Mario & Luigi games, and the Paper Mario games. Subscribe to Pocket Gamer on What on earth is Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam?

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