Mario & Luigi: Peach's Drama Kings

Mario & Luigi: Peach's Drama Kings (Mario & Luigi RPG 5: Princess Peach Odyssey in Japan) is a game for the Nintendo Switch , initially developed by Alpha Dream, and Nintendo EDP published by Nintendo in 2023. It is the eight installment in the Mario & Luigi series and the first one for the Nintendo Switch. As all Mario and Luigi games have a theme of their own, this game focuses on music, where the plot revolves around Mario and Luigi getting killed and sent to the Star Shrine after a horrible robotic accident caused by Midbus and the new villain Vexnar, giving them the task to turn off all the lights in the heaven in order to avoid getting spotted by him. Peach has her own adventure in the Mushroom Kingdom as she tries to track down Midbus by herself, going on a concert tour as she has perfected music. 
==Story==
The Star Shrine is a very popular country. Among the Galaxies of space, it lies. It is home to many individuals, Star Spirtes, Planet Peeps and even the Sun and the Moon. Most people live a peaceful life here and enjoy it. However it may become invaded one day, and they're always on the lookout for any sketchy looking monsters.
In the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario and Luigi are eating some pancakes at home. A few yards down the road to Peach's Castle. Luigi sees in the newspaper that a concert at Peach's Castle is about to take place at exactly 6 PM sharp tonight. Mario and Luigi decide to help out with the festival for this, when they hear the news.
At 4:30 PM, Mario and Luigi are seen organizing the chairs for the festival. Bowser bashes in however uninvited and Mario, doing what he does best. Fights him. Bowser loses as usual, and he gets knocked out and thrown out of the castle with Peach's magic. It turns out that the Bowser, Mario fought was just a Goomba in a costume.
That night outside the castle, Mario and Luigi sit down in their chairs to watch Peach play her songs, however they get a nasty shock as the ground starts rumbling. Everyone is confused, Mario looks at Luigi, who just shrugs. Suddenly a yellow spike ball crashes right through the window, it unfolds into Midbus. Mario and Luigi are jaw dropped to see him. 
Robots walk behind him all open fire at his command. Mario and Luigi fight the robots but thanks to the interruption of a dark soul, the brothers end up getting killed. Peach runs over to them, looking for two 1-UP Mushrooms and cries at the fact that they're gone. The robots open fire again, preparing to take down Peach and the crowd behind her, but are stopped by Bowser who breathes fire on them, Midbus turns around and is both surprised and cross to see Bowser after so many years. Both of them get into a fight, resulting in Bowser being shot by one of the untouched robots, dying in the process. Midbus gets up, severely injured surrounded by a mysterious dark fire. Red eyes open, two hands emerge from the fire, one of them slapping Peach and the crowd away from the castle to Leaky Lakeline, and the other snapping it's fingers, causing Midbus to disappear. 
Waking up in a place called Sput Put, Mario wanders around the town looking for his brother. He bumps into Starlow, who is out shopping with four of her Star Spirit friends. Mario explains to her about what had happened and curious if he'll be okay, she decides to tag along with him to keep him company. Reteaching him some of the basics of battling when they both find Luigi. Starlow guides them to the castle outside the town, and tells them that she'll keep in touch. 
Heading inside the castle, Mario and Luigi learn that this place is part of the Star Shrine. Mario and Luigi enter the throne room of the castle and see no one. They hear two voices, telling them to look up. They do so and see, the sun and the moon on the ceiling, they introduce themselves as Ray and Luna. Rulers of the Star Shrine. 
==Gameplay==
Mario & Luigi: Peach's Drama Kings stays exactly the same as it always was in past installments, however it changes, during different times of the story. For the most part, the player takes control of the duo, Mario and Luigi by moving the joystick in the direction they want in order to make the brothers run. Mario and Luigi are also controlled by two buttons on the Nintendo Switch. A for Mario and B for Luigi. Both of them have different actions that can be changed with the L and R buttons. With the player pressing the + button and going to a menu called the Handbag, one can access items, view the characters' stats, practise Special Attacks and even see how much energy the player has.
Princess Peach is an extra character who acts similarly to Bowser (when he was playable in Bowser's Inside Story), being controlled by the X and Y buttons. X to slap enemies and Y to hover in the air briefly. By moving the joystick, the player can control which direction Peach can move. 
==Battle System==
The battle system remains exactly the same as before, however there are some changes made to spice up the craziness of it 
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Much like before, the battle system still acts like a turn-based role-playing game, where the bros. and enemies take turns attacking, and their Speed determines who attacks first. All Command Action commands give out five different ratings depending on how well the player executes the attacks. These ratings are:
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When the enemies try to attack, Mario and Luigi can either jump over or hammer them to avoid damage, and in addition, counterattack them or use an Emergency Block to defend themselves certain attacks to take less damage by holding the L and R buttons at the same time.
When a brother drops dead after all of his HP has been drained, then the other brother can bring him back to life with a 1-Up Mushroom. But if that brother is out of 1-UP Mushrooms then he'll have to carry on the battle by himself without any Bros. Attacks and will need to carry the dead brother on his back. After that brother dies, then the player will receive a Game Over, and will have the option to try again in either easy mode with HP and POW boosted up, or normal mode. Or just quit the game and start again from where they saved. In hard mode, if the brother dies, then the player will have to start again from where they saved.
Battle Cards return from Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam, however instead of costing Star Points, they instead cost a cheap price of Coins, which can be retrieved from enemies after beating them and attacking, depending on how strong the brothers are. 
====Battle Commands====
Image	Name 	Decription 	
 	Jump 	A solo move that invovles Jumps. Press A for Mario or B for Luigi to land on an enemy then press A again when ground pounding on the enemy. 	
 	Hammer 	A solo move that involves a Hammer. Press A for Mario or B for Luigi to hold down the charge of the Hammer swing to release it. Then press A or B again to do extra damage when hitting the enemy.	
 	Bros Attacks	
Special Attacks that cost Bros. Points and have both Bros. use teamwork skills to preform a move that can be extremely powerful if preformed correctly. 	
 	Items 	Mario and Luigi can use an item, each item has varying effects to benefit the player. 	
 	Run 	Which allows the player to run from a battle taking no EXP and dropping 1/4 of their coins. 	
====Stats====
*HP (Heart Points) is the amount of health Mario and Luigi. When an enemy hits either of them, they lose HP. When their HP reaches zero, they will die, but can be brought back to life with a 1-Up item.
*BP (Bros. Points) indicates how many times Mario and Luigi can use a Bros. Attack. Each attack uses a certain amount of BP, draining the total. BP can be restored by using Syrup and other items.
*POW is how strong either Mario, Luigi and the enemies are. The higher their POW stats are, the more damage they will perform.
*DEF is how much damage either Mario, Luigi and the enemies can take from attacks. The higher their DEF stats are, the less damage they will take.
*SPEED is how fast Mario, Luigi and the enemies are. If an enemy has greater speed they will attack first, and if Mario and/or Luigi have greater speed they will attack first.
*STACHE is one of Mario and Luigi's most unique stats. The higher their STACHE stats are, the greater there is a chance of a Lucky Hit, which doubles the power of attacks. Also, the player will be more likely to get hits on Scratch Cards with more STACHE.
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Peach's battle system is very similar to the battle system from the first two Paper Mario games, taking place in a stage and having an audience. This audience consists of Toads and is more important than the one in the Paper Mario series. Peach has a special keyboard that can play from five different categories of music to summon creatures and animals to attack the enemies. 
*Pop which is capable of making cheery characters appear which will preform cartoonish attacks
*Metal which will summon characters and objects made of pure metal to heavily damage enemies.
*Country which summons the power of nature as well as animals
*Soul which summons characters that may heal Peach.
*Retro which has a selection of songs that summon familiar characters.
There is no limit to how much Peach can play one song, no limitations such as SP. However, instead there is a picky audience. In order to use any song, Peach must have a big enough audience, stronger attacks will always require a larger amount of audience at a time. Each Toad in the audience will have a different colored cap, which is important because each color represents a genera that Kind of Toad color likes. However, each Toad color also has a genera they despise, making all Toads of that color leave.
When the audience is full, Peach can play special songs known as Symphonies, where she calls up all Toads in the audience of a desired color and have them form into an instrument to do huge damage on an enemies, and the more of that color there is the more damage the attack will do.
Levelling up allows Peach to upgrade each of the following:
*HP (Heart Points) is the amount of health. When an enemy hits Peach, she loses HP. When her HP reaches zero, she will die and the player will receive a Game Over.
*POW is how strong either Peach and the enemies are. The higher their POW stats are, the more damage they will perform.
*DEF is how much damage either Peach and the enemies can take from attacks. The higher their DEF stats are, the less damage they will take.
*SPEED is how fast Peach and the enemies are. If an enemy has greater speed they will attack first, and if Peach has greater speed she will attack first.
*TIARA is Peach's version of STACHE. The higher her TIARA stats are, the greater there is a chance of a Lucky Hit, which doubles the power of attacks. Also, the player will be more likely to get hits on Scratch Cards with more TIARA.
==Ranks ==
Making a comeback from Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam. And like before. When leveling up Mario, Luigi, and Peach occasionally reach a rank. When this happens new criteria is added to the game such as being able to upgrade the numbers on their STAT slots, equip more clothing or being able to shop at certain places. Here is a list of the ranks:
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Rank 	Level Required	Rewards
Mushroom 	Default 	Equipped with 1 piece of gear
Shell 	7 	
*Equipped with 2 pieces of gear
*Power Moon Icon added to Roulette Rally
Fire Flower	10 	
*Equipped with 3 pieces of gear
*Life-Up Heart Icon added to Roulette Rally.
Super Leaf 	20 	
Get the Super Hammers
Super Bell 	30 	
Get the Ultra Hammers
Power Star 	35 	
*Shop at the Grand Star Mall
*Grand Star added to Roulette Rally
Rainbow 	40 	
*Shop at the Shrine Church Shop
*Double Thumbs Up Icon added to Roulette Rally
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Rank 	Level Required	Rewards
Peral 	Default 	Equipped with 1 piece of gear
Power Flower 	16 	Equpped with 2 pieces of gear
Perfume Bottle	26 	Equipped with 3 pieces of gear
Amazing Earing	32 	Get the Spire Tiara
Queen's Crown 	40 	Get the Finale Dress
==Special Attacks==
===Bros. Attacks===
All of Mario and Luigi's Bros. Attacks are available from the very start of the game and are shared between them. However as the game progresses they learn more ways to perform them. 
==Characters==
===Playable===
===Supporting===
===Antagonists===
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