Mario & Luigi: Tri-namic Duo

Mario & Luigi: Tri-namic Duo is an RPG released for the Nintendo Switch, developed by Good-Feel and ArtePiazza. It is the sixth original instalment in the Mario & Luigi series and is the first game in the series not to be developed by AlphaDream following their closure in late 2019. Initally written as a finale to the series, the game's story follows Mario and Luigi being called over to the Flower Kingdom by Princess Daisy to help with the extermination of a ghostly invasion brought on by a mysterious underground group called the "Tri-Guys". When Mario and Luigi catch wind of who their leader is, they recruit Daisy, Princess Peach, Wario and Waluigi to help them put the leader behind bars. 
== Story==
In an underground cave, a group of twenty Shy Guys wearing Chinese robes stand around a shrine, praying to it. The shrine starts glowing and a purple genie pops out, demanding the Shy Guys to bring him to their leader. Doing so, they bring the shrine to three cloaked figures, one is fatter and bigger than the other two. The figure takes his hood off and is revealed to be a big fat blue pig. The genie introduces himself to the pig as Bishop Chelson, and the pig introduces himself to the genie as Midbus. 
In the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario and Luigi receive a letter from Princess Daisy, who is currently on a holiday in the Flower Kingdom. She writes that various Popplins within the Kingdom have been disappeared without any whereabouts of where they were previously and that an old sanctuary has been closed off in the worries that someone has woke up "the beast". Made aware of the situation and concerned for her neighbours, Princess Peach promptly gather all of the willing locals of the Mushroom Kingdom to come on a journey with her and the brothers to solve this issue. A group of Toads, Paper Toads, the staff from the Lakitu Info Center in Pairplane Plains, some Star Sprites, Toadette, Professor E. Gadd and his suitcase all sign up to come with the trio. 
In their hut, Wario is eating breakfast with Waluigi. They read a newspaper of the disappearing's happening in the Flower Kingdom and a part of the newspaper that documents the sanctuary, pops out to Waluigi. He estimates that it is worth a million coins. Before he can get up, Wario pulls out a letter from Princess Daisy in relation to this and promises that they will get something out of whatever investigation that they take part in. 
Arriving at the Flower Kingdom early, the Mushroom Kingdom group are welcomed by Daisy and Prince Florian. After explaining the situation to them, everyone is about to set off when Bowser arrives with his minions, much to Peach's annoyance. He explains that he wants a piece of the action and tells his minions, both normal and paper to start searching. Wario and Waluigi arrive after him and Mario and Luigi, standing there confused ask Daisy why they are here. She explains that she learned about an ancient prophecy from the sanctuary that when the beast awakens "four heroes" would have to work together in defeating it. Mario tells her that he and Luigi will start investigating while they have a think about working with them, Before they set off however, she gives the brothers a bag of ten Bros. Attacks, telling them that they cost an expensive amount of points and that "Levelling Up" will allow them to use more.
When they reach Pipe-Rock Plateau, the brothers battle various enemies who have a go at them, readjusting themselves to some tricks that they would have pulled off in the past. Luigi spots the palace and tells Mario that they should investigate it and see if there is anyone inside it. They walk in and find Wario and Waluigi, observing the interior and holding a bag of Flower Coins. Mario and Luigi come up to them and explain what Daisy had told them about the prophecy and "the beast", Waluigi is about to tell them that they're just doing it for the money, but Wario punches him and tells the brothers that he'd be happy to help them as long as there is something in it for them in terms of commerce. Mario promises that he will make sure it will be pricey. Wario picks Waluigi up and jumps on Mario's back, telling him that it's just like the old days, calling back to when they were kids. Luigi doesn't feel the same way about Waluigi doing it, but he is lucky to have it better than Mario.
Before they are about to leave the palace however, Luigi catches a glimpse of three figures walking along the banister of the first floor. Mario takes a glance and sees Midbus and two small purple things following him. Upon recognizing them, they make a run for it with Wario and Waluigi on their backs and arrive at Florian's palace to tell Peach and Daisy who they saw and that four won't be enough to get them locked up. Surprised at hearing that four won't be enough, the princesses hold no objection to joining the group and they set off search of answers. When Peach asks Mario why he's giving Wario a piggyback ride, Mario tells her that it's the good old days in his mind. 
Heading back down the same path, they find footprints on the ground, Mario recognising them as Midbus'. The footprints lead down the path to the Petal Isles and they see Bowser's Koopa Crusier residing in the middle archipelago. The footprints lead to the ship and Mario puts two and two together, as he makes a dash for it with Wario on his back and the others following behind him. He sees Bowser holding Midbus by the neck against the ship and holds back, hoping that he will finish the job. However Midbus pulls out a jar and throws it at Bowser's face, causing him to let go. Smoke lifts from the jar and turns purple, forming into Bishop Chelson, who attacks the group based on a description that Midbus gave about "two plump plumbs with moustaches". The group wins the fight and his soul retreats back inside in the jar. Bowser regaining his baring's, grabs Midbus by the tail and drags him inside the Koopa Crusier with the jar in the other hand, telling Mario and Luigi to continue looking for the individuals while he does what he's been wanting to do for some time. 
The group head towards Fluff-Fluff Peaks and set out to find some clues towards why the genie was let out. They find the palace at the very top of the clouds and go inside to look for some clues. They run into Captain Syrup, whose looting for some money in the palace. She gives the group an artefact that has a biblography of Bishop Chelson's life and what he went through and she jumps out of the window to do some more looting. As they read through it, Mario and Luigi are surprised at how violent the bishop became because of a certain mistake involving his wife that lead to her passing and they decide that it's not worth it to put the bishop out of his misery and to focus on undoing Midbus' doings. They head to the first floor and are backed up against a wall when they meet the Scutra. After defeating it, it drops a crystal Royal Seed, as Mario picks it up, it rises up through the roof and flies away across the kingdom as it drops glitter across the landscape, making some Popplins appear. 
As they watch this from the window, they come to the conclusion that if they find more seeds, then peace will be restored. 
Arriving back at Florian's Castle, he explains to the group that collecting a set of four Crystal Royal Seeds has the ability to restore peace to a region in the Kingdom. Knowing that they have one at the moment, they head back to Pipe Rock Plateau to find the designated Royal Seed. Bowser meets up with them again and tells them that a giant ship fell from the sky. Following him to the ship, they take a look at the name and see that it says "S.S. Turno". They climb aboard and investigate the interior. The interior is full of dried Bloopers, who are incredibly light. Reaching an office, they meet a big fat Crab named Captain Turno, who is surprised to see visitors in his office. Mario and Luigi explain that they are looking for the Royal Seed in the area and they have a reason to believe that it could be located beneath the ship and if they could have a look underneath it, Turno says that they, Wario and Waluigi are "man enough" to go in, but says that he is not sure about Peach and Daisy. Offended, Daisy walks over to him and slaps him in the face, to the shock of Peach and the others. Turno tells her to do it again and she smacks him much harder, he then asks Peach to come over to him and do what Daisy did. She hesitates at first, but she smacks him, cracking his shell. 
Chuffed at how strong they both are, Turno allows Peach and Daisy to follow the four guys in going underneath the ship. They head to the basement, solve some puzzles and reach King Calamari, who is keeping the dried Bloopers imprisoned in glass boxes. He battles the group, and explodes after losing the fight, dropping a Crystal Royal Seed in the process. 
==Gameplay==
With the addition of four characters with Mario and Luigi, the gameplay takes after Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time and Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam. As with the previous games, Mario and Luigi are controlled by the A and B buttons on the Nintendo Switch whilst, Wario and Waluigi are controlled by the X and Y buttons and Peach and Daisy are controlled by the R and ZR buttons. Wario and Waluigi always ride on Mario and Luigi's shoulders while Peach and Daisy follow behind them. Commands that they perform in the overworld can be switched around with the L and ZL buttons on the Nintendo Switch. 
Pressing the + button or the - button will take the player to a menu called the Heart Menu, where they can see the character's stats, Experience Points, current rank, the amount of coins, items, gear and badges the player has collected, the Bros. Attacks, Battle Cards, important items and summary of the game's story at whatever point the player is at. 
===Overworld Moves ===
The list of overworld moves are sectioned into three pages, with the characters' moves on each page. 
====Page One====
* Jump (Mario), Jump (Luigi), Jump (Peach), Jump (Daisy)
====Page Two====
*Hammer (Mario), Drill Bros. (Luigi), Punch (Wario), Bob-omb (Waluigi), Wish (Peach), Tennis Racket (Daisy)
====Page Three====
*Wonderhand (Mario), Spin Jump (Luigi)
===Battle System===
In battle, players control all six characters in the group. Wario and Waluigi fight the enemies on Mario and Luigi's shoulders while Peach and Daisy stay on the sidelines and manipulate the fights by throwing different Battle Cards that they have at their hands. Because the additional four characters, Mario and Luigi have seven Action Command Blocks to choose from. Jump, Hammer, Bros. Attack, Punch, Items, Battle Cards and Flee. Like in Mario & Luigi; Paper Jam, pulling off the Action Commands that involve attacking the enemies to the best of the player's ability adds a point to a meter called a Star Point meter, which based on the cost of a Battle Card, determines which one can be thrown at the enemy by either Peach or Daisy. Like in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, the characters can partake in different variations of Mario and Luigi's Bros. Attacks by adding extra button inputs to increase damage or increase the speed of an attack.
== Locations ==
The game is set in the Flower Kingdom. The location names from the Flower Kingdom are the same as they are from Super Mario Bros. Wonder. 
=== Flower Kingdom ===
* Pipe-Rock Plateau
* Fluff-Fluff Peaks
* Shinning Falls
* Sunbaked Desert
* Fungi Mines
* Deep Magma Bog
* Petal Isles 
==Characters==
===Playable===
*Mario
*Luigi
*Wario
*Waluigi
*Peach
*Daisy
===Supporting===
*Toadette
*Starlow
*Stuffwell
*Professor E.Gadd
*Prince Florian
*Bowser
*Bowser Jr.
*Kamek
*Paper Mario
*Paper Luigi
*Creased Goomba
*Lakitu Info Center Staff
*Paper Toads
*Toads
*Koopas
*Goombas
*Captain Syrup
===Antagonists===
*Bishop Chelson
*The Tri Guys
*Midbus
*The Shroobs
*Popple
*Dilly
*The Fungus Five
*Snuffy
==Bros. Attacks==
==Items==
* ? Blocks
*Coin Blocks
*Coins
*Blue Coins
*Red Coins
*Flower Coins
===Usable Items===
==Ranks==
*Mushroom Rank - Levels 1 to 5
*Koopa Shell Rank - Levels 6 to 11
*Fire Flower Rank - Levels 12 to 18
*Shine Sprite Rank - Levels 19 to 26
*Power Star Rank - Levels 27 to 40
*Rainbow Rank - Levels 40 onwards
==Enemies==
==Gallery==
File:(UPDATED) Mario&LuigiTrinamicDuoBoxart.png|Game boxart
File:M&L RP6 LOGO.png|Game's logo with the six main characters