Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
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Template:Infobox Mario & Luigi: Dream Team (Mario & Luigi RPG 4: Dream Adventure in Japan and Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Bros. in Europe & Australia) is an upcoming title for the Nintendo 3DS. It is the fourth installment in the Mario & Luigi series. The game will be released in Europe on July 12th, Australia on 13th, Japan on 19th and North America on August 11th.
It is part of "The Year of Luigi" alongside Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon and the New Super Luigi U DLC for New Super Mario Bros. U. The 2 titles and the DLC are in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Luigi's debut. As such, Luigi has a much bigger role in the game than in the previous Mario & Luigi games. A special edition of Nintendo 3DS XL with a Luigi themed print will be released in Japan as part of the event and include the digital version of Dream Team preinstalled on the SD card.
Story
Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Toadsworth, and the Toads gets invited to Pi'illo Island and travel to the island for sightseeing. While touring the island, Luigi takes a nap on a special pillow which opens a portal to the Dream World and Antasma[1] pulls Peach into the world.[2] It is later explained that there where two powers in the Dream World, the Dreamstone and the Darkstone[3], the latter which Antasma destroyed to create chunks so it is able to turn the Pi'llows species to stone. Mario and Luigi travel to rescue the Princess and free the frozen Pi'llows.[4]
Gameplay
The gameplay seems to shift between Luigi's dream world, where Mario and Luigi move in a 2-D fashion and the regular world, where they freely roam the overworld, unlike the previous three titles. While playing inside Luigi's dreams, Starlow can move his face to affect the area, such as spinning platforms. The battles appear to give the player coins, similarly to the Paper Mario series. Due to the shift to 3D, the game also uses a new art style. Badges similar to those in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story seem to make an appearance in this game.
Confirmed features
Characters
Playable
Other
- Antasma the antagonist who is apparently a "nightmare" itself
- Dreambert leader of the Pi'llows
- Eldream Someone who can possibly help Mario and Luigi [6]
- Princess Peach[2]
- Toadsworth[2]
- Toads[2]
- Starlow
- Beanish[2]
- Citizens of an unknown village, some of which resemble brown Hoohooligans.
- Many multi-colored owls.
- Broque Monsieur and an entire block species based on him.
Enemies
- Purple rock-like enemies with brown, Goomba-like feet (Japanese ユメボー Yumebo, roughly "Dream People"[7]. German "Alle")
- Gray rock-like enemies with hands, with faces similar to Junior Shrooboid's or Shrooboid Brat's. They attack in the overworld by tossing boulders.
- Bloatula[8]
- Storks[9], orange drill enemies
- Golden drill enemies
- Pink creatures with green leaves on their heads
- Orange spheres with spikes on their heads
- White ghost-like creatures with black eyes
- A purple, pink and peach goo moster
- A dumbbell-like creature
- A pink and yellow moth creature
- Blue Fly Guys
- Viruses
- Crab-like creatures similar to Sidesteppers.
Items
- Attack Piece Blocks
- Badges
- Coins
- 10 Gold Coins
- Mushrooms
- Super Mushrooms
- Nuts[10]
- Super Nuts[10]
- Wonder-nuts[10]
- Syrup[10]
- Super Syrup[10]
- Chocolates[10]
- Super-Chocolates[10]
- 1-Up Mushrooms[10]
- 1-Up Mushroom+s[10]
- Refreshing Herb[10]
Mario and Luigi's Battle System
The battle system in overworld is similar to those in previous titles, but the system in Dream World is totally different, as Mario will be the one who fights in all battles with Luigi's dream power. There are now five categories of attack, like in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. They are Jump, Hammer, Item, Luigi's face (which are Bros. Items in Dream World) or Red Shell(which are Bros. Items in the overworld), and Flee. There can be more than five enemies in battle, like in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story.
Special Attacks in Over World
- Fire Flower
- A Propeller Block like thing which makes the Bros. fly and land roughly on the Enemy.
- 3D Red Shell
Special Attacks in Dream World
- Balancing on a ball of Luigis and kicking it strongly near the enemies.
Locations
- An area called "Pi'illo Island", where the game will presumably take place in.
- A town area inhabited by brown creatures. It also contains a shop.
- A quarry area with fences on the floor and rock enemies.
- A grassy area with mountains.
- Dream World
- A grassy area with flowers.
- An area with wooden floor with orange drill and purple slime enemies.
- A castle with purple rock enemies.
- A dark blue void area with Luigi's face on the background, with "Don't leave me behind, big brother" messages passing through the screen.
- A Bridge which breaks down and leads into a cave.
Gallery
European and Australian logo
Japanese logo
Screenshots
Mario and Luigi in a town area. 
Mario and Luigi in a quarry-like area. 
Mario on top of a large crowd of Luigis. 
Mario and many Luigis jumping on top of a group of enemies. 
Luigi jumping out of a constellation. 
Mario in battle. 
Mario jumping into Luigi's dream, with Starlow watching nearby. 
Mario in an area of Luigi's dream, with an Attack Piece Block nearby. 
Broque Monsieur and two unnamed block people welcoming the group to Pi'illo Island. 
Screenshot showing three Beanish characters. 
Names in Other Languages
References
- ^ http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/impressions/33932
- ^ a b c d e http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE1sJUsa75E
- ^ http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/impressions/33932
- ^ http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/impressions/33932
- ^ [1]
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