If I have a major complaint, it’s the first three hours. It’s boring and nothing happens. It takes that long to get one Bros attack, one traversal skill, and fight your first boss. I would have cut it entirely or made it so you get those things on your first island - ThreadSky

chuggaaconroy.bsky.social • 107 days ago

If I have a major complaint, it’s the first three hours. It’s boring and nothing happens. It takes that long to get one Bros attack, one traversal skill, and fight your first boss. I would have cut it entirely or made it so you get those things on your first island

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solidstalemate.bsky.social•107 days ago

You're playing 3 Mario and Luigis at once?

sheid.bsky.social•107 days ago

Thx for the review. I'll still want to play the 1K Door remake first before this game, but it's strange to see the RPGs be great games again

villomaru.bsky.social•107 days ago

yeah that seems to be the general consensus. the game is very good, but the pacing is its weakest point

lord3d.bsky.social•107 days ago

Yup, felt the same way about the beginning. But this game really picks up the longer it goes on! Beat it just one hour after you!

balthy.bsky.social•107 days ago

I was bored for the first 20 hours, and found the game started to get interesting after the second big lighthouse. Thankfully, the game gets better as it goes on, despite still being very slow to progress.

jadeghost.bsky.social•107 days ago

i definitely think that the lack of earlygame Bros. Attacks is supplemented by the standard attack inputs being more like a Bros. Attack

my personal gripe is that the Red Shell is pure single target, which makes it have very little use case in earlygame where i'm already one turning every enemy

jadeghost.bsky.social•107 days ago

if the red shell acted more like the Inside Story counterpart i think i'd like it more, single target but moves on to the next foe, y'know?

i need my spread damage...

gw64.bsky.social•107 days ago

Yeah I got Metroid Dread morph ball flashbacks while waiting for the first bros attack. it should have been at the end of the first or second Island before the first boss

scooterslounge.bsky.social•107 days ago

Tbf, in Dread, that was kinda the point. To isolate you from the familiar, make progression more difficult, and most importantly, get you used to the Slide for quicker traversal.

scooterslounge.bsky.social•107 days ago

It also gave you the option of sequence breaking to get a quick kill on Kraid if you so chose.

gw64.bsky.social•107 days ago

Oh wait really? You can skip kraid?

scooterslounge.bsky.social•107 days ago

First of all, I was slightly incorrect, you can get Morph Ball *Bombs* early, and that's how you quick kill Kraid

Second, you can't skip Kraid, but with Morph Ball Bombs, in his second phase, there's a secret cannon you can use to end the fight asap.

dizzy-the-dork.bsky.social•106 days ago

I don't really get why the first 3 hours are considered boring. Maybe it's just because I waited so long for a new game, but I was engaged from the beginning!

Now the end of the game, that's where the pacing gets really weird XD

loudtoon99.bsky.social•107 days ago

I think it's why alot of people seem to be turned off from the early game. Granted, previous games also started slow in the first few hours, but it was due to tutorials rather than being relatively uneventful.

loudtoon99.bsky.social•107 days ago

I mean, in the previous games, you do get alot even during the tutorials. Be it story, abilities, or battles.

Though count it lucky the game does pick up as it goes on.

andyrooa.bsky.social•107 days ago

I agree with everything you said. The start was dragging on and I didn’t like how long it takes you to get new bros attack. I do enjoy it I’m not quite done with the game yet but I am close and I do enjoy the story and I just love Connie so much.

mega-layla.bsky.social•104 days ago

Outside of how long it took to fight the first boss, nothing else in the beginning seemed boring to me. I was already hooked with the idea of exploring new islands from the start

pinksunrise.bsky.social•107 days ago

I also dislike how Luigi works honestly, I wish they would've gone for a Superstar Saga style where you can change the leader depending on the scenario.

wallman.bsky.social•107 days ago

I marathon'd the game start to finish for the first ten days after release, so the beginning is kind of a blur to me. What I do remember was how I would have liked to unlock faster sailing sooner than I did

mcmario4810.bsky.social•107 days ago

I can see why IGN gave it a five. I'd give it a five too if the gameplay was just those first three-five hours of gameplay. But no! I'm so glad the gameplay and the difficultly ramps up later on and the later fights with Bowser's Armies are super fun!

youpalross.bsky.social•107 days ago

Reading your thoughts on it makes me want to give it a bit more of a try after stopping just short of the 3 hour mark I wasn't feeling engaged but sounds like I stopped just before it picks up.

redflashroy.bsky.social•107 days ago

I’m not a big fan of how spread out the Bros attacks are. Feels like it takes you eons to get new ones

mcmario4810.bsky.social•107 days ago

Yeah, especially the first one. It should have given you those before the first boss. Then again, There could have also been a boss a bit earlier in the story as well.

cynicalblues.bsky.social•107 days ago

Ah good, it has Kingdom Hearts 2 syndrome

kernium.bsky.social•107 days ago

Except the intro to Kingdom Hearts 2 is phenomenal, I'm thinking it's more like the intro to Kingdom Hearts 1 due to how boring it gets on repeat playthroughs.

slowpokedragon.bsky.social•107 days ago

Chuggaa, I think the reason you're mistiming your bonuses after level-ups ingame is because you aren't pressing the button AS you say one, you're pressing it after timing another count. Like, "One (two) press" instead of "One (press)"

pokeball35.bsky.social•107 days ago

For me, I’m 16 hours deep with only two sets of bros moves and I’m on my way to the 2nd great lighthouse. It feels like it takes forever to get things going. I’m still enjoying the game, but I wish it was maybe like 20 hours shorter than a 50 hour game.

pokeball35.bsky.social•107 days ago

I want to see more new things and it feels like for me it’s taking way too long. For me it’s a very middle of the road game so far, but I’m only probably a third through the adventure. I can’t wait to see if it picks up as much as you say it does.

chichi16.bsky.social•106 days ago

I don't know why everyone says that, I enjoyed the beginning of the game the same as the other parts

cyonofgaia.bsky.social•106 days ago

I mean to be fair the game DOES have a slow start. But it's to allow myself to be properly introduced to the characters, setting and premise of the game without having been thrown into almost immediately and say "woah, what the heck is this Concordia world!?"

hordz.bsky.social•107 days ago

I've watched the LP now since Ep.1 and I hated the amount of mandatory tutorials, its a lot of crutches before you are even allowed to walk and play on your own.

kernium.bsky.social•107 days ago

I mean, at this point it's just Mario & Luigi's quirk.
Is it bad? Yes.
Is it expected? Also Yes.

mcmario4810.bsky.social•107 days ago

Tbf, it's not as bad a BIS, but yeah, the game does hold back a bit till post-first Great Lighthouse

guguig.bsky.social•107 days ago

I felt the same way for the end. Getting to the final dungeon felt a bit too long.
But otherwise, I had such a good time with it !

meltra.tgirl.gay•105 days ago

venusar

laceluxim.bsky.social•97 days ago

did you struggle at all with that sharkbone sidequest? it definitely gives me the vibes of something you're supposed to come back and do later in the game, but i cant help but keep throwing myself at the wall hoping i get that drop

sgtboogaranan.bsky.social•107 days ago

The first couple of lighthouses not being guarded by a boss was a strange decision.

vanillamintswirl.bsky.social•107 days ago

So how long is the newest Mario and Luigi gonna be

luminouskeybearer.bsky.social•92 days ago

📌

scooterslounge.bsky.social•107 days ago

I didn't mind the first few hours, but I definitely agree. I feel like we should've at least gotten the first Bros Attacks before the first boss. Could've gotten them from Billdit/Maykit along with our Hammers, and it would've given us something big to test them on with Gorumbla.

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