Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time

The famous Mario Brothers return in this sequel to the humorous Superstar Saga. In this adventure, Princess Peach takes a trip in a time machine, but when it returns, there's only a monster inside! The heroic…

91 28 November 2005

Adventure Puzzle Role-playing (RPG) Action Comedy

Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time is an adventure developed by AlphaDream, released 28 November 2005 on Wii U and Nintendo DS. The main story takes about 25 hrs to finish.

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What Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time is

Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time is an adventure game developed by AlphaDream and released in 2005. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Nintendo DS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

When Professor E. Gadd unveils a time machine at Peach's Castle, Princess Peach travels into the past and never returns, and a hostile alien species called the Shroobs comes spilling through the rift. The Shroobs have overrun the Mushroom Kingdom of the past and taken Peach captive, so Mario and Luigi venture back through time to save her. There they meet their own infant selves, Baby Mario and Baby Luigi, and the four team up, combining the abilities of the grown brothers and the babies to solve puzzles, recover the scattered shards of the shattered Cobalt Star, and drive back the Shroob invasion.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Mario series

Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time is the 400th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Mario Party 7 Bon Voyage in 2005. Its critic score of 91 is 14 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: Partners in Time holds a critic score of 91 out of 100. That places it above 96% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 24 points above the year average. Players rate it 85, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 25 hrs.

What it launched against

Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time launched on 28 November 2005, within three weeks of Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Mario Kart DS, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones and Guitar Hero. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Mario Kart DS, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, Guitar Hero.

Cheats and codes

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