This sequel to Superstar Saga exceeds the boundries of fun and brings a great rpg to the ds.
User Rating: 9.7 | Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time DS
This sequel takes the fighting style and gameplay from its prequel Superstar Saga. This game whips out rpg style gameplay and turn based action. First of all, lets start with the gameplay. The gameplay is solid and great. The story was just original, although time travel, an overly used theme was involved. The 4 person battling was just awesome. You had baby forms of Mario & Luigi, and they were used to do some attacks that you could not do with just two people. You are put in a world with monsters lurking about. To initiate a battle, obviously, you touch them. However, what was a nice touch was that you could attack even before the battle started by jumping, or hitting them with a hammer, which would do some damage to all enemies before the battle starts. Once engaged in battle, you come up to a screen like most rpg's. You on one side the enemies on the other. You have your standard jumping attack, and hammers, but this time the hammers can only be used by the babies, so if you don't have them with you, tough luck! Unlike it's earlier prequel, this game has no bros moves, which were moves that used up bros points which constantly needed to be checked, and would get annoying. You would just have bros items. You would buy them, get them after battles, or the old fashioned get them out of a box. Once you run out, you run out. Either get more, or use some other attacks. These bros items can only be used when all 4 bros are in battle. The enemies are very well made, and are creative. Each enemy, has certain attacks that they do, and you have the ability to counter these attack. Usually you can use these counters to deal direct damage to the enemy, otherwise, it just blocks their attacks. I thought this was very clever. Instead of standing there waiting for the enemy to attack you, you had the ability to fight back. Although it was turn based, you had to keep up the whole time, which made it seem more like an action game to me. There were also some puzzles in the game that made you stop killing, take a deep breath, think, and relax. Besides the gameplay, everything was killer! It all just amazed me, how they went from Superstar Saga to this. My gameplay hours were all thanks to my obsession to level up and be able to the final boss in a minute flat. That also goes for any other rpg I've played. But that's just me, so don't expect to play as long as I did, although it is a fairly long game. This was just an awesome game, and I really do think this game was underappreciated, and underrated. Gamespot gave this a 8.9! I can't believe that! I just love this game, and for the Mario & Luigi makers, "Keep makin' this better!" 
