Aw man is Dream Team really that bad?? D: I've been meaning to get it for ages.
well ymmv but it just lacked the punch that partners in time and bowsers inside story did
(incoming beth review no-one asked for because i've got turbosperg feelings about this whole thing, just like my hatred for loz: spirit tracks)
the first two games throw you right in the plot from the getgo while dream team takes an absolute age to get going, and by the time it does you're like "who cares????"
also the writing is nowhere near as snappy, like everyone just sorta stands around "..."-ing a lot during scripted parts, none of the jokes are as funny as they used to be, and you get tired of prince dreambert quickly and the kinda contrived "time to learn the new technique" things
like there are some nice parts? a bit in dreams deep is kinda adorable and somnom woods has some lovely music, but on the most part it was just kinda disappointing and "eh", there's no real sorta luigi """character development""" that we got w/ bowser in the last game which is also a shame, they almost sorta start on a brotherly love thing but then they just kinda abandon it for the boring fetch quest and luigi (literally and figuratively) spends half the game in the background
they re-use voice samples a LOT in this game, which is really disapponting cos i loved how chatty mario and luigi were in the last few games, in this one they seem to only be able to say like 3 or 4 things and you hear luigi use the same sample 4 times in a row just to drive the point home apparently
idk this point is really stupid but the voice sample stuff was spot on in the last few games
also the fighting mechanics are not the greatest, the difficulty of pulling off each attack is way harder and the game is like "why can't you do it??? u get an "OK" for this, ugh!"
they don't introduce any cool new stuff mechanics-wise either, they reuse the same "whoaaa" thing that they did in bowsers inside story when u have your first dream!luigi boss battle
(i'm being obtuse about bowser boss fights because i don't wanna spoil What Happens cos it was a total surprise for me and a v good one )
final boss battle was just like "is that it? no cool twist or disaster happening? ugh"
im gonna cut off the crappy review writing here (shoulda cut it off 10000 words ago) but yeah its kinda disappointing compared to how good and well-put-together the last couple games were
it has good reviews in most places but thats due to the state of games journalism and games in general these days tbh
fake edit: wow, that was a hell of a lot of carepost typing for a videogame, im so ashamaed that im gonna tie myself a noose and do the needful