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Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions

"The game that launched the Mario & Luigi series returns looking better than ever before. In this renewed classic, Mario and Luigi journey to the Beanbean Kingdom with Bowser to restore Princess Peach’s voice…

84 5 October 2017

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions is an adventure developed by AlphaDream, released 5 October 2017 on Nintendo 3DS.

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What Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions is

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions is an adventure game developed by AlphaDream and released in 2017. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga is a 2003 role-playing video game developed by AlphaDream and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. It is the first game in the Mario & Luigi series. The story follows Mario and Luigi as they travel to the Beanbean Kingdom in order to combat Cackletta and Fawful, who stole Princess Peach's voice for the purpose of harnessing the power of a special artifact called the Beanstar.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Mario series

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions is the 571st of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Nintendo Classic Mini: Super Famicom in 2017. Its critic score of 84 is 7 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.

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How it was received

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 13 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions launched on 5 October 2017, within three weeks of Cuphead, Assassin's Creed Origins, South Park: The Fractured But Whole and Middle-earth: Shadow of War. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Cuphead, Assassin's Creed Origins, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Middle-earth: Shadow of War.

Cheats and codes

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When did Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions come out?
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions was released on 5 October 2017 for Nintendo 3DS.

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