This is the downfall of the Mario and Luigi series, an absolutely pointless game with a ton of wasted potential, less replayability, and overall the reason to NOT get a 3DS at the time. I have to ask, why this game? Why remake this game? Why not the one you guys skipped before it? Partners in Time is such a mixed bag in a lot of areas that you could have easily made more enjoyable if AlphaDream chose to focus their time on that one. But here we are. This game on its own is fundamentally the same game as the original with a bit of changes here in there, the changes range from astronomically huge to they changed the creative toad designs into the stale bread generic toad design. Visually I think this game really is beautiful, but with great visuals come cheap performance, this game runs at a solid 30fps, while the original ran at a clean 60fps. If you think that's not a huge difference then maybe you should play both back to back like I did and realize that this remake is not consistent in its timing windows. A lot of the game is just slower and more drawn out than the original with battles taking longer only because the slow battle transition animation has to play every time. If you think the original was easy you have not played the remake, they somehow made it more easy to play with damage values being reduced and you earning more and more from battles than you would have playing the original.
It's just... disappointing, that this was the game that made an entire gaming corporation go bankrupt, and it killed off this series entirely. If you haven't played Bowsers Inside Story and you have a 3DS, just find the DS one, ignore this, it serves no purpose in the market.