Now, you control the characters themselves, and they can move wherever they want in their range. In the original game, each character moved on a grid. Before I get to the Sparks, I need to talk about how the combat has changed. Edge’s sword, too, can hit multiple enemies in a row. Bowser is damage-central, an offensive character, as you would expect. Luigi is a sharpshooter and best at ranged attacks. Take Mario, for example his main weapon can fire twice so that you can take out two targets. Actually, everyone’s abilities are unique, and combined with the Sparks can be mixed and matched even more. Both Bowser and Rabbid Rosalina will eventually join the battle, and there’s also an entirely new character Edge, a punk-inspired Rabbid, joins Mario and the team fairly early on and has some unique abilities. Along with being excellent at feeding Cursa’s evil power, the sparks are used in battles to help Mario and his friends take on Cursa’s army.Īll the gang from the original game are back, with one omission – both Yoshi and Rabbid Yoshi have been given the flick – but there are new characters to make up for it. What are Sparks? They’re a mashup of Lumas from Super Mario Galaxy and Rabbids. This time around, an evil-yet-somewhat-familiar enemy named Cursa wants to consume Sparks to take over the Galaxy. Sparks of Hope again takes place in a Mario and Rabbids smushed-together world where everything is just a little different. Now, five years later, Mario and the Rabbids return in Sparks of Hope - and this time, we’re no longer surprised, so without the shock, can the sequel hope to stand out once again? And Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle isn’t just interesting because it’s surprising, but because it was a lot of fun. Mario in a strategy game with Rabbids – that’s the hand we were dealt, and it could have been so terrible… But it wasn’t. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle was a surprise, however Mario was in a game with another company mascot (that wasn’t Smash Bros). But we knew all about them well in advance, and they weren’t a surprise. We got the Switch, Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - a lot. Looking back on 2017, it was a pretty fantastic year.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |