Normally, only Bowser can fight Dark Mechawful enemies in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. If Mario and Luigi are made to fight them, their attack becomes agonizingly slow, taking 4 and a half minutes to finish and give control back to the player. - ThreadSky

mariobrothblog.bsky.social • 35 days ago

Normally, only Bowser can fight Dark Mechawful enemies in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. If Mario and Luigi are made to fight them, their attack becomes agonizingly slow, taking 4 and a half minutes to finish and give control back to the player.

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jemuzu.bsky.social•35 days ago

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1I4u1tNPG_8

michirin.bsky.social•35 days ago

I'd think it was a softlock if it happened in a playthrough...

crispitycrunchy.bsky.social•35 days ago

Average Pokemon gen 4 battle

bartb6.bsky.social•30 days ago

thanks spaghetti monster

25fan.bsky.social•35 days ago

That leads me to wonder: What about the Dark Mechawful.5 ? Can it spawn against Mario and Luigi? If it is present, do its attacks work similarly?

vitorio582.bsky.social•35 days ago

spartaremixandlooneytunes

dogeiscut.bsky.social•35 days ago

Is it known why this is?

osha.tgirl.gay•35 days ago

Because you're not meant to fight them as the brothers so obviously there's gonna be unintended behaviour.

emanresu102396.bsky.social•35 days ago

I think their question is more, why THIS unintended behavior?

osha.tgirl.gay•35 days ago

Read the first part of my reply.

emanresu102396.bsky.social•35 days ago

Sorry if I was unclear, but I mean: why the "slow attack" behavior rather than, say, a game crash, or softlock, or any other outcome? What exactly causes this unusual-looking issue?

zerovii.bsky.social•35 days ago

I'm not aware of if there was updated documentation on the reasons, but this is what TCRF has on it:

"This could be the game glitching rather than something unfinished, possibly the game trying to use the head's star attack with the body attached."

More research is needed for the exacts

zvaari.bsky.social•35 days ago

i dont think anyone ever bothered to research this enough to find the exact cause (or the info was never made public)

my 2 cents is that the attack has values corresponding to the speed stars fly by and coordinates where they should land, and it may be reading unintended values from the game's code

nectar1nna.bsky.social•35 days ago

Noteworthy sidenote: their punch attack works perfectly fine and is countered with the hammer
Makes me think they intended to have them fightable by the bros initially, but later scrapped it while they were adding this behaviour