Mario & Luigi Brothership charms its way through familial familiarity

As the long-lived Switch heads towards the end of its life, Nintendo is playing out its veteran hardware with a symphony of familiar but not-quite-blockbuster takes on its biggest franchises. We’ve seen a retro-feeling Zelda that’s not another open-world epic, and a final flurry of Mario spin-offs that will stretch into next year: another Mario vs Donkey Kong, one more Mario Party, and a port of Luigi’s Mansion 2. The most interesting of Nintendo’s last forays into the Mushroom Kingdom this generation, however, is the long-awaited return of its traditionally handheld-only Mario & Luigi series, whose previous all-new entry arrived nine years ago back on 3DS.

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Source: Eurogamer.net