Mario & Luigi: Brothership – that was unexpected (Nintendo)
The Nintendo Switch is going out with a bigger bang than expected, with multiple new first party titles announced for this year and beyond.
If this month’s Nintendo Direct had been 20 minutes long and only featured a few indie games and Wii U remasters nobody would’ve blamed Nintendo. Their new console is out in 2025 and for the longest while they had nothing scheduled for release in the second half of the year… but now they do.
Many were hoping for a reveal of Metroid Prime 4 and they got it, but it ended up being the only first party Nintendo game not due out this year, with a new Zelda title (that actually stars Zelda), a new Mario Party, and a new Mario & Luigi.
Unusually for Nintendo, a number of the games had been leaked ahead of time, but the Direct started off with something nobody was expecting: a new entry in the Super Mario RPG adjacent Mario & Luigi series.
Mario & Luigi: Brothership will be out on November 7 but two of the main reasons it’s a surprise is that original developer AlphaDream went bankrupt in 2019 and that was partly because the series had been selling less and less over time.
It was always very good though and while it’s not clear who’s making Brothership the trailer looks a lot of fun, with some distinctive cel-shaded visuals and the games’ usual turn-based combat with real-time gimmicks.
We just hope the game maintains its sense of humour from the previous titles, which was always one of the main appeals in entries like Bowser’s Inside Story.
In terms of other games, the previously announced Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition was confirmed for July 18, with a console version of Fantasian Neo Dimension, from the creator of Final Fantasy, coming sometime this winter.
Nintendo Switch Sports will be getting a new basketball mini-game this summer, as a free update, while Disney Illusion Island is getting a free update this very day.
There wasn’t an awful lot of indie games on show, but we liked the pencil art style of MIO (Memories in Orbit), which was one of a few titles not due out until 2025 – further proof that Nintendo and others intend to support the Switch well into next year.
We imagine Looney Tunes: Wacky Worlds Of Sports is probably multiformat but a fair amount of effort seems to have gone into it, with ‘four arcade style sports’ on offer.
There was also confirmation of a major new update for Among Us, with several new imposter roles. Although it was ironic that it was only a short announcement, as a leak concerning the update is what finally revealed the date of the Nintendo Direct, before it was officially announced.
Despite rumours of Zelda and Metroid remasters, and expectation that there could well be more beyond just that (the continued absence of Xenoblade Chronicles X is baffling), Donkey …read more
Source:: Metro
