"All...things...MUST SLEEP" - Antasma, The Year of Luigi.

If dreams are as action packed as this, then fall asleep I shall! AlphaDream strikes again with their 3DS entry. The 4th tale sees a nice jump in the visual presentation that allows for a more vivid style. And carrying over from the 3rd comes the 3D and 2D locales to explore. The battle system is as fun as ever with the Dream world offering a unique twist painted mean green. Antasma is another fantastic Mario RPG villain worthy of standing along the others. I loved the added spectacle of the Giant Battles as well. And with Yoko Shimomura masterminding the musical elements again, you can expect a whole collection's worth of dreamy melodies. And I appreciate the way Luigi himself was handled, with his Luigination powers at work to support his brother through the journey, that right there is true sibling love. While some tutorials can really drag in some areas, Mario & Luigi: Dream Team absolutely shows its worth as another fantastic Mario RPG experience I can always fantasize about in my sleep.

Sei não hein mano esse daqui foi um pouco difícil de engolir, tanto que demorei literais anos pra terminar. Se tem uma coisa que esse jogo gosta de fazer é enrolar, um dúzia de tutorias para explicar cada singela mecânica do jogo e suas nuances (AS VEZES MAIS DE UMA VEZ INCLUSIVE). Em questão de apresentação até que o jogo é bonitinho é bem animado e a trilha sonora mantém o padrão alto que essa franquia tem. A parte dos sonhos é legal e tals mas pra um conceito que é tão bacana de ser explorar visualmente eu acho que eles pegaram bem leve, não rola nada de muito criativo durante os segmentos dos sonhos. A narrativa é OK, nada inovador, as alusões dos jogos passados até que são bacanas, o Bowser por algum motivo é bizarramente sem sal nesse jogo, irreconhecível do jogo passado, o que pra mim é bem ruim já que ele era um dos melhores pontos do Inside Story. O combate é aquilo que nos conhecemos mas caralho no final você já ta massacrado e os inimigos normais ficam mais parrudos e em maior quantidade no geral e fica parecendo que seus ataques normais não importam de merda nenhuma, só da pra usar Bros moves.

Our favorite Mario RPG, and you can tell because we're plural! ...Okay, that doesn't explain anything.

Some people are kinda mean to this game, either because of it having long tutorials (which... we have a 10 year old Cookie Clicker save, so maybe we just have the patience of a saint, but it never bothered us even on a repeat playthrough) or because it's a 3DS-era Mario & Luigi game when those are rather notoriously a mixed bag of contentious titles. We happen to fall on the "love" side of this one.

The music is transcendent as always. The Dream World is a fun gimmick, and we adore the Dreamy Luigi shenanigans. Prince Dreambert got slept on literally, we're so sad he basically never got the chance to appear again when he's a very fun character being this prim-and-proper dude that's also just kind of A Guy, who has a frat bro best friend, and also his frat bro best friend is One Of The Closest Things To A God In A Mario Game. The Pi'illos are so cute! And, of course, we, for two, accept our Plural Luigi overlords.

As far as we're concerned, this is a must-play for any 3DS owners--if only to experience what it's like. While Superstar Saga is probably "objectively" better, we can't help but show our bias in favor of the funny Luigi one.