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Replaying Mario & Luigi: Dream Team for some reason. I think I just crave mindless audio-visual stimulation. On hard mode I actually died against a regular enemy and lost that 45-minute session of progress, which in this game is half mashing the b-button through constant perfunctory tutorials and dialogue and skits that much less tolerable than in the previous games. Even though Dream Team is the last Mario RPG to have featured brand new characters and not just a formulaic plot, the big twist is that the new main villain sucks, and Bowser is here to establish the status quo and crush our hopes at an original tale in a Mario RPG ever again. And after Sticker Star, Paper Jam, and now Color Splash, the coffin is nailed shut.
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