This game, have many good things... but it could be better.
Ok... if GameSpot said this... I'll tell the world, what I think, about this game.
Let's start with the positive things:
-Graphic
-Music ( awesome!)
-Gameplay
-Challanges are funny, to complete
-Humor
-Great use about the touch-screen... and the mic!
In this game, Mario and Luigi... like you can guess, by the title... are inside Bowser! It all started by the Blorbs... Peach call a meeting, for find a cure, about this disease! Mario and Luigi are called too! It was going all well... until Bowser appears! Yeah, after a simple battle, Bowser got thrown away, by Peach's power ( combined with Starlow's power: a Star Sprite). Then he wakes up, in a forest and find this strange guy, that gives to Bowser... this weird mushroom! From that, Bowser starts to inhales like crazy! And quickly, returns in the castle, where inhales all... includes the Mario Brothers, Peach and other Toads.
Honestly, the real intro is well... more detailed, than this little intro... but I wanted to introduce the game, as little as possible! So... let begin with saying about the gameplay.
Graphic and Music, is very good in this game... it wouldn't be a surprise, if many players, want to hear these music! The gameplay is also excellent: you can control the Mario Brothers, like in the previous games... and this time, you can use Bowser too! It's kind similar, to the way, you use the Brothers... but Bowser is an another story! He punches with force, everything is trying to obstacles him! He will burn, all the enemies, that try to attack him! Bowser seems to be, unstoppable in this game... and it's the right method, for playing as him.
You'll find this game, really humorous: the cutscenes are really funny to watch and the dialogue... it's hilarious as well!
Even the other Mario & Luigi games, are really funny, in the same way! A recognisable mark, that this series have!
In addiction, for the humor in this game... we have a great use of the touch screen! It's mostly used in minigames and in Bowser's Specials like the "Goomba Storm": tap the Goombas, for let Bowser burn them... and they will fly all together, into the enemy! There are many other Bowser's Specials, of course: all have, a different way to use the touch-screen. Even the mic, is used in this game... but you'll find how, later in the game.
All these good things, can easily put Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, on the top ten, for the best DS game ever... unfortunately, now I start to say, where this game starts to fall down.
For most of the game, all you've to do... is just walking from point A to point B. The story isn't very long, like you can expect... it's more concentrate about the Gameplay, than the Story itself. So... it's would be better, to have more ideas for, at least, do something different! Mostly the pattern is: start the new area; defeat enemies; resolve obstacles; defeat enemies; win minigames; defeat enemies; defeat the boss.
There aren't too many variety: it seems that you do, always the same things, but changed! It's like you eat a chocolate cake... then you eat a chocolate cake, with berries... then you eat a white chocolate... it's always chocolate!
But in one part, of the game, there's something of varienty... but always later, in game!
The main world, seems to be huge... but it isn't that huge: you can find areas, that take like... a few minutes, to past them! The overworld, is great... but are always the same: every time you go, in that areas that you didn't explore before... always you find some new gears or other useful items! This is more like, a sidequest mission that you do... it not reflect on the main story!
Luckily, there is a part of the game, where the overworld is used like it's suppose to be!
The ideas, later in the game, start to be uninspired: sometimes they are a ripoff of the previous games... sometimes there are elements, that the only reason to be there... is to continue the story. Maybe you can find disappointed about certain things... but these haven't any reason: it is common to see, in a Mario & Luigi game, some ridiculous things... but in this game... we are going, in a new level, of ridiculous! The only way, to accept them is... to ignore them!
In conclusion... this game is very good! But... it's something of uninspired, later in the game: overworld that contains most of the time, only useful gears; mostly, you do the same things, even if there are somewhat of changes; uninspired ideas that can get very ridiculous, sometime... and so on...
If you have red, my review... I advice you, to buy this game. Because, even if this game receive a 7, it can be 9 or 10, for you... so, give it a try!;)
An advise: this game is very concentred about the sidequests, too! I advice you, to continue playing this game, for completing all the challenges that this game has to offer!