The newest outing for the duo comes by way of Mario & Luigi: Brothership, promising to take us on an exciting journey with our two favorite plumbers once again. If you’re considering picking up Mario & Luigi: Brothership and have a few lingering ...

Brothership gets the key elements of a Mario & Luigi game right, infusing satisfying quick-time events into turn-based combat in battles and allowing the player to pilot Mario and Luigi simultaneously everywhere else.

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.