Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope

[Zondekel]

Featuring the return of Grant Kirkhope

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I'm super excited. I loved the first one, though I need to go back and finish it.. I even went to the Nintendo NYC launch to meet Kirkhope and Davide Soliani when it came out! This one looks interesting- the Nintendo site mentions nine party members, so I'd imagine the eight from the original and then Rabbid Rosalina, and with the story heading into space, I imagine the real Rosalina must be involved somewhere... Then again we haven't seen Yoshi or Rabbid Yoshi yet...

Mario dual-wielding guns is just so funny to me

[Mr. Airplane]

What's better than Mario With One Gun

[Mandolin]

Breath of the Wild, Bowser's Fury and now Sparks of Hope... Nintendo games sure are into Black Jizz of Doom lately.

In all seriousness, apparently combat is still turn-based but we'll have full control of the characters instead of marking paths on a grid a la X-Com. I wonder how that's gonna work.

[Solid Snix]

Might be like Valkyria Chronicles. You can move a character around freely, but it depletes an "energy bar" of sorts, so you can only go so far per turn. VC is fun, but this movement style feels kinda jank and loosy-goosy tbh.

Could also be like one of the options in Three Houses, where you're still confined to a character's grid, but you can move around freely in it. It doesn't actually change how the game plays or anything, for all intents and purposes it's still grid-based. It's just you're moving a character around and up through the spaces you want to move them, instead of pulling an arrow from grid to grid.

[Zondekel]

For those that missed it, a gameplay clip