W ay back when I used to play Mario & Luigi RPGs on the Nintendo DS, I always got a kick out of how they cleverly blended controls for both Mario and Luigi with button-mapping. As

This structure allows for two fundamental truths that keep the combat in Brothership engaging for most of its runtime. Watching Mario and Luigi do stuff together is really charming, and putting quick-time events in turn-based battles makes the proceedings feel just a bit more exciting. Stats don’t dictate whether an attack lands, you do.

Brothership makes one small change to Luigi's combat controls, and many fans of the RPG series are upset about it.

Brothership, is out now! But does the game have multiplayer? That's the question that some fans are asking. With the game featuring both of the iconic plumber brothers in key roles, you might assume that the game is designed to be played by two players at the same time.

Brothership adds more RPG depth to the series, but its flat writing and overabundance of gimmicks drag it down.

Mario & Luigi: Brothership, the first new Mario & Luigi game in nearly a decade, seems content to iterate on past ideas from the franchise. Brothership brings a handful of new ideas to the Mario & Luigi formula, but only a few of them make the 20-year-old franchise feel fresh.