Mario & Luigi Team Up for DS Shenanigans
New screens for the sequel to one of the best portable games around. Check 'em out. You know you want to.
It's not often that a game is laugh-out-loud funny but that's exactly what most people found in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga on the Game Boy Advance. And for the upcoming DS sequel the company is hoping that twice the screens means twice the fun.
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, as the DS update is known, sees the moustachioed brothers joined by their infant selves, Baby Mario and Baby Luigi, on a frantic race against and through time to defeat a group of baddies known as the Shroobs.
The hailed interactive battle system of the first game is back and better than ever, with all four characters able to team up for ever-wackier super moves. The brothers will be split up from time to time too, and you'll be able to keep track of the other pair using the DS's second screen.
Another new feature brought in for the game is a full rumble feature. Nintendo has designed a rumble pack for the DS that fits into the Game Boy Advance slot on the handheld. This will let you feel all the onscreen action, just like in your console games.
Nintendo has yet to give a European release date for Mario & Luigi: Partners In Time. The game is coming out in the US at the end of November and sources have hinted to Kikizo that the game should show up here in the beginning of February.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games
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