We're Getting A Brand New 'Mario & Luigi' RPG This November

Superstar Saga was my first Mario game ever (and still is my favorite one til this day)
I'm so happy to see this series back

Probably pass on it since not a fan of this series - think Superstar Saga is kind of just decent and it's the best one - but the art style translated to the Switch nicely.

The animation looks OUTSTANDING.
But I dunno if this series will feel the same without Alpha Dream (RIP).

I’m so excited about this one. Glad the series lives on!

The (alpha)dream lives on...

This was a completely unexpected announcement. I'm loving the new art style.

Heck yes! I was hoping this series would come back. Dream team is one of my top favorite mario games.

@LadyCharlie Yeah, that's my biggest reservation too. I stand by the statement that M&L's voice and style is hard to replicate without the devs at Alphadream.

Until we find out who's involved with this one, I'm keeping my expectations in check. Still gonna play it though.

HYPE!

I wonder who's making it, though.

@LadyCharlie Maybe ex-Alphadream staff have made a new studio to make it? 🤞

@Hyrulewarrior Oh absolutely. Superstar Saga, Bowser's Inside Story and Dream Team in particular are some of the best Mario RPGs put to screen. Even the weaker titles, Partners in Time and Paper Jam are still pretty good. You can't go wrong with the whole M&L series.

@larryisaman I’d be quite surprised if Alpha dream staff aren’t here at all

I love the look!

Nice to see that we're getting another entry. Felt way too long since the last one.

Love love love the animation in this. Really looking forward to it

This was a dream reveal for me! I’m so happy I literally have only played a little if partners in time and a demo of dream team a fell in love with the gameplay! The fact that the artstyle looks like the cover art of the games is already a plus, I cannot wait!

Stole the show

This was out of pocket, but I am so down.

Looks cute.
Will consider the game quite late.

I've been hoping for one of these for a while, should be great.

Best announcement in my opinion

I yelled so loudly when I saw the Mario & Luigi logo.
I literally could not believe my eyes, there is no way Nintendo is this nice!
I'm curious to see how they do it without Alphadream.
I knew, from the moment I saw the Mario and Luigi renders (Because they look exactly like the Paper jam and/or Dream team art/renders) I knew it was either a new or brought back Mario & Luigi game.

As children, my brother made sure he played as Luigi in SMB3 while I was Mario. I lost him almost 7 years ago. To see the subtitle of the game pop up like that made me shed some tears. I miss him deeply and if we can adventure this way together, it's a stretch I know, but I'll take whatever I can. It's me and him, not necessarily Mario and Luigi.

Now THIS is how you start a Nintendo direct!
Honestly the Mario and Luigi series is really great and the art style is faithfully translated to 3D.
Definitely getting this.

Hmm, I wonder what studio is making it.

The animation quality is kinda insane! I'd love to know who is working on it. Maybe Ubisoft is involved?

This looked incredible. The Mario RPGs keep on coming. And I'll keep on getting them, thank you very much.

Sad that Alpha Dream is gone and thus isn't doing this, but regardless it is great to see the franchise return, and I am very optimistic about this!

The animation was awesome! Like a cartoon. Definitely looking forward to checking it out. Will have to see if I can beat Zelda in time for launch day tho. Pretty great holiday sequence between Zelda in Sept, Mario Party in Oct and this in Nov!

Definitely a great announcement, looking forward to this one. Been too long since we had a new one of these.

It's kinda funny how the M&L series has effectively been relegated to the end-life of consoles twice now.

But this is still a big deal, and wild that this means we're gonna have 3 different Mario RPGs released within a year of each other by the time this one comes out.

They started off strong with this banger
And I KNOW BANGERS

"Brothership" sounds like a funk album or something lol.

I genuinely cried, Mario and Luigi was a cornerstone of my childhood and I’m so excited to see it back. I don’t know if it’ll be the same, but any Mario and Luigi is better than no Mario and Luigi.

Looks great. Waaaahoooo

YES!!!! Thank god!!!🔥🔥🔥

Art style translated really well into 3D. Game was instantly recognizable. That said, the only Mario & Luigi game that kept my interest the whole way through was the very first one so I'm probably not going to buy it.

Never thought this series would come back, and even if it did i figured it would be a remake. But nope, brand new game and it looks amazing

It's nice to see another Mario & Luigi. I just fear that Nintendo is repeating the same mistake they did before, by putting Mario & Luigi out at the end of a system's lifespan and thus sells will inevitably be lower, they then "punish" the franchise instead of recognizing why it sold less.

I hope that I'm wrong, and I'm glad that the series survived the previous instance of that, even though we lost AlphaDream.

Never expected this franchise to return. It looks amazing, very nice celshaded graphics. And new enemies/bosses from what I can tell! So this isn't made by AlphaDream, but it still looks very promising. This and Zelda make me eat this Holiday, I knew Nintendo wouldn't let us starving. For me, this was the best announcement and trailer.

Nice! Enjoy the Mario&Luigi series way more than the Paper Mario series so glad to see a new game for the series.

@BHPM it does look like an alpha dream product, and so I doubt Nintendo took it upon themselves to imitate greatly the style set forth by Alpha Dream long ago. Surely key former staff are on board here.

Finally, a Mario and Luigi game without some control gimmick as the main gameplay focus.

Cool! Probably won’t pick this up anytime soon since Paper Mario TTYD is all the rpg I can handle at the moment

The intro looks like AI made it, not really sure what they were going for tbh

I would like to see a mario game like 3d mario world with this kind of graphics

One of my favorite announcements in the direct. Honestly, I think this was one of the best directs in such a long time. Game looks great. Amazing art direction!

getting this one for sure, love alle the mario RPG's

@NinChocolate Great point. As soon as I first saw Mario and Luigi in the trailer, the style immediately gave away that it was a Mario & Luigi game. At least to help with art direction, you're right, they almost certainly must have brought aboard key former Alpha Dream staff.

I can't lie, I started to get weary of this series after the 3DS entries. Just seemed to get a bit stale and gimmicky. Hope this is a return to the good old days. It'll be strange to see the series outside of the conventional 2D sprite format.

A real surprise to hear this one, and my favorite announcement of today. I had only played Superstar Saga on the GBA, but it was a great game and a favorite of mine since Super Mario RPG. This game is looking really excellent too.

@WaveBoy You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
Go back and look at a gamecube game.

@WaveBoy I have no idea how you can look at this and think it looks soulless. I seriously think it looks better than most other first party Nintendo games on the Switch have looked, absolutely including Odyssey. The character animation is leaps and bounds above anything else Nintendo has done with the Mario series. I wish the movie had been animated in this style.

I'm not a fan of this series but it's cool to see such an unexpected surpeise.

This is awesome. So happy to see this series return on Switch.

hope they managed to get Yoko Shimomura back to compose, been loving the resurgence in music from her lately!

I didn't think we would get a new Mario & Luigi game on the Switch but I'm so happy to be wrong, it's my favorite Mario RPG series and Superstar Saga is one of my favorite games of all time, so happy to see this series back
And the new game looks incredible, whoever is making this nailed the art style
This and Prime 4 are tied for my favorite announcements of this Direct

Highlight of the direct for me!

Amazing! So much MarioRPGness on Switch 😍 The look is a bit low-poly, til the end I was unsure if it was a remake of a GBA title or something all new. But I don’t mind.

So is no one else going to mention that this looks like it could be a two player co-op game?

The only thing that bothers me about this reveal trailer is the lack of Luigi’s striped socks. Otherwise, I’m in!

@cartunecartune Nope, because Nintendo's website lists it as a 1 player game. https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Nintendo-Switch-games/Mario-Luigi-Brothership-2590264.html#gameDetails

Okay, that's definitely a lot of Mario games recently, but hey, this was common in the 3DS era, just like the desire of seeing a new Mario & Luigi game

But it's very very original. In fact, these characters could suit another franchise or medium easily. There's your potential for adaptations

Still wish this could have been with Wario and Waluigi.

But will Yoko Shimomura do the soundtrack again?

The minigame in these directs now is trying to guess which studio is working on a particular game. 1-Up Studio has done lots of Mario games but has nothing on their games history for the past 3 years.

that was all i ever wanted from the switch console tbh,
damn! no one does it better than nintendo.

And here I was thinking that my prayers would never be answered with a new Mario & Luigi without Alpha Dream at the helm anymore. Should have known better since the characters still belong to Nintendo. It looks fantastic. They traded off the sprite style aesthetic for a more cell shaded look which works just as good if not better, with the backdrop of a 3D world. Looks like they've gotten a little bit back to basics with the gameplay and flow, too, which was another wish I had for the series. So what's that now... Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario, and Mario & Luigi in some shape or form can all be played on Switch now? Fantastic days!

Looks good. Should fit right in on the 3DS at a $40 price point.

Not a fan of the outline and some enemy designs seen from the trailer but heck I wanted this series back. Can't wait

While this news is bittersweet, R.I.P. AlphaDream, I am so overjoyed to see the series return.

From what I e seen, it looks to keep the core gameplay and not deviate like the Paper Mario games have.

That being said, this looks amazing and what's even better is it's out in November!

This is the best gaming news of the year for me so far.

Wow this looks like a very promising return to a long gone classic game. It’s crazy to me we are getting this along with a Mario rpg and paper Mario so close together. Nintendo can keep these coming!

GRAAAAAAAAHHHHH I'm so pumped up for this, I've watched the trailer several times and can't get enough of these charming character models and animations!!

It's about time guys! Mario & Luigi fans STAND UP, it's our time now!🔥🔥🔥

@Dr_Corndog How can you not be?

@Tyranexx You made my day.

@Hyrulewarrior I definitely recommend you playing the Mario & Luigi series, it's a excellent series.

Holy cow! This game reveal was outstanding! This and Metroid.
This reveal made me happy. Looks gorgeous, like watching a Mario cartoon.

Man I'm excited!
What do the kids say these days?
Oh yeah. GET HYPE!!!

@mariomaster96
100% Could not agree more with you sentiment!
Similar story, but it was Bowser's Inside Story for me - and wow...
was I not prepared for the unique take on Mario which I hadn't seen anything remotely like, up to that point as an OG gamer.

The RPG-lite gameplay, world, characters, just-bananas story... - we'd never have seen that side of the Mushroom kingdom, if not for the M&L series.
(Bless you AlphaDream!!
You are missed but never to be forgotten - thank you for your legacy)
(P.S. Maybe now with the install base, this series will have a chance of getting the exposure and mainstream love it deserves - hoping ofc it honours the best of it's legacy fingers crossed)

I still think about how special that game was to this day,
Man, that humour! - "What a Globin!"
>< Lmao fr

@Tyranexx Oh really? how'd u like it?
(that humour right?)

(P.S. - also, all cards on the table, I sadly never finished in the day, but plan to go back to it one day - no reflection on quality, just life happened yknow? xP)