*Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time + Baby Bowser's Pilots*

Mario & Luigi: Partners In Time + Baby Bowser's Pilots (called マリオ＆ルイージ RPG 2 X 2 DX in Japan) is a game for the Nintendo Switch released on the 14th of June 2024, it is a remake of the 2005 game, Mario & Luigi: Partners In Time which was released for the Nintendo DS as well as a sequel to Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions for the Nintendo 3DS and a prequel to Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Junior's Journey also for the Nintendo 3DS. The game has the same story as the original with added differences and like Bowser's Minions and Bowser Junior's Journey, the game adds a side story called Pilots Ahoy: Fight for The Prince.  
The game was developed by Good-Feel and published by Nintendo, following AlphaDream's closure in late 2019. 
== Development ==
Following the underwhelming sales of Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Junior's Journey, the Mario & Luigi series developer AlphaDream would eventually shut down after filing for bankruptcy on October 1, 2019, citing "sluggish revenues" as one of the factors. Nintendo at this point had axed other plans for the Nintendo 3DS following this. During the COVID 19 Pandemic, most of the key staff from AlphaDream had migrated over to Good-Feel, hoping to get a better source of income for their families.
In late 2021, the key staff decided to restart their plans that were put down two years ago. 
==Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time==
The remake of Partners In Time, includes updated graphics, soundtrack, controls, and story.
=== General Changes ===
====General====
*The music is orchestrated.
*The percentage of beans and ?-Blocks found can also be viewed in the menu screen along with a summary of the current story.
*Cutscenes can be speed up by pressing the R Button.
*The game's frame rate is updated to 60 frames per-second.
*The main title screen is fairly similar to the original game, the only difference being the three captains of Baby Bowser's ship in the background, walking on the gears of a clock and pushing a pram with a baby Starlow inside it.
*There are now four save files instead of two.
*Hard Mode is available from the beginning. The Hard Mode strengthens the enemies and doesn't include the Training Badge as an item.
*Cutscenes revolving around Bowser hearing about the Time Machine take place after beating a world.
====Overworld Gameplay====
*Time travel puzzles have been added. These puzzles allow either the babies or the adults to access a small part of an area's present version and cooperate to solve them.
*Some replayable mini-games have been added to various areas, on top of the ones in Thwomp Volcano. Beating them the first time allows the player to continue the stage, while replaying them rewards the players beans.
*A brand new overworld has been added to the past version of the Mushroom Kingdom. This overworld becomes available after clearing the Shroob Mothership, and is first opened from near Toad Town's Item Shop. Other entrances are available outside and inside levels where needed. The overworld is on a 7x7 general grid, with some screens allowing access to most of the levels and some extra hidden screens.
*With the abilities earned up to Thwomp Volcano, Mario and Luigi can open up the following entrances to the following past levels:
**Bowser's Castle: Use Baby Cakes to traverse the creased brick wall, then hit a switch to open the gate. The gate brings the Bros. to the wreckage of the Koopa Cruiser.
**Yoshi's Island: Take a raft to new dock area on the island, then use Baby Spin to open the gate to the area with the Time Hole.
**Thwomp Volcano: Have the babies dig into an opening in the east, then hit a ! Block to open a gate to the area with the Time Hole.
**Toadwood Forest: Use the Spin Jump to traverse a large river and hit a ! Block to spawn a bridge to the area with the Time Hole.
**The Road to HoliJoli Village: Use the Ball Bros to generate a power supply to the gate leading to the area where the old Time Hole used to be located.
**Gritzy Desert: Use the Ball Bros to generate a power supply to a Warp Pipe that spawns in the area where the Time Hole is located.
*When Baby Mario and Baby Luigi receive the hammers, they get four of them instead of two, the remaining two are given to Mario and Luigi.
*There is now a new area in Toad Town which shows an investigation of the Dark Star, referencing the events of Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story.
*A new overworld has been added to the present version of the Mushroom Kingdom. This overworld becomes available after clearing the Star Shrine and is accessible via the garden in Peach's Castle. The overworld itself is no different to the past version of the Mushroom Kingdom, barring some slight differences in the entrances to different areas. Each region in the overworld has a different set of optional goals that is listed on a billboard in the shop in Peach's Castle. These include:
**Face off against the ancient in Toadwood Forest
**Find the Golden Egg at the top of Yoshi's Island
**Clean the pathway to Holi Joli Village
**Air-fuse the core of Thwomp Volcano
**Go on a bean hunt in Toad Town
**Help some people lost on Star Hill
**Find the Eight Silver Stars in Star Shrine
**Raise More Awareness about Bowser's Castle
**Take part in the latest competition in the Koopaseum
* The overworld also includes two new dungeons, Cloudrail Station and Beanstalk Bridgeway.
====Battle Gameplay====
*All battle backgrounds now scroll whenever one of the characters use a Bros Item.
*A new rating called "AMAZING" is added with the ratings "OK", "GOOD", "GREAT" and "EXCELLENT".
*The HP of all enemies and bosses have been cut to 66% their original totals from the original game.
*Mario and Luigi can use their Hammer attack in battle, with or without the babies' input.
* The Red Shell and Ice Flower Bros Items have been omitted.
*Two new Bros. Items are added, on top of the eight already in the game. The eight pre-existing Bros. Items have been re-balanced in power and effect.
*Like in the other 3DS Mario & Luigi games, Fleeing will not cause the player to lose coins.
*Any Bros. Items that required usage of the Dual screen on the Nintendo DS, now have the camera zooming out and then zooming back in when the attack is finished.
===Original Bros. Item Changes===
*The Red Shell's and the Ice Flower's core functionalities are mapped to the Green Shell and Fire Flower.
Name 	Changes
Green Shell 	Like the item's later incarnations, the Green Shell homes in on the next target after defeating the first before a brother kicks the shell to the existing brother beside him to floor it into the enemy.
Fire Flower 	Like in Bowser's Inside Story, the characters double up for the final part of the attack, and like the Ice Flower in the original game, it decreases any of three statuses, POW, DEF and SPEED.
Cannonballer	The attack's power is cut down to 83% it's original total.
Smash Egg 	The egg can be only kicked into the enemies, four times.
Springboard 	The attack ends after 30 hits. On the 30th hit, all four characters grab each other and ground pound onto the enemy. 
Pocket Chomp	In exchange for a 1.2x increase in power, the Chomp makes 20 passes max
Copy Flower 	The maxium amount of jumps is 40.
Mix Flower 	All four characters press their corresponding buttons at the same time whilst the attack is in play. The Attack ends when the fireballs are maxed out.
===New Bros Items ===
Name 	Description
Bowser Shell	Similar to the Green Shell, the only difference being that the brothers use their hammers to hit it. Requires two characters but can use three, one given an extra input.
Falling Star	Involves all four characters throwing Stars at a big star floating in the sky, the stars they throw being sorted into stacks of ten. The big Star is only able to carry up to ten stacks and the attack ends once ten stacks are made.
====Time Travel Puzzles====
=====Bowser's Castle=====
*The final puzzle involving the first Cobalt Star shard is altered to involve time-travel. Very much like the original game, the babies enter a time hole where the entrance to the dark room used to be. This brings the babies to a present day version of the room, now covered in pits filled with Dry Bones and spikes. The adults meanwhile, adjust a series of light switches in the past, generating power in the future. Eventually the babies enter a one way time hole back to the past, and obtain the Cobalt Star Shard as usual.
=====Toadwood Forest=====
*The second and third spike pit platform puzzles are altered to involve time travel. For the second, the adult Bros. must go to the present, while the babies use a touch screen interface to switch panels around. For the third, the adults must take the power cell out of the now-malfunctioning second Shroob Tower. Then, the bros. must head to the present, next, the bros. must temporarily place the power cell in the fixed present tower, making a platform appear. Following on, the Bros. must navigate an altered spike pit. Next, the baby bros. must procure the power cell from the present tower. Then, the adults use the warp pipe block to get the babies, and enter the one-way time hole. And finally, the bros. place the power cell in the new third tower in the past, and activate that to truly open the factory.
=====Gritzy Caves=====
*For the symbol match obstacle, the babies head to the present while the adults use Bros. Ball to power the machine in the past, matching all the symbols draws the bridge in the present, to a ledge with a time portal. Using this time portal, the bros. activate a new ! Block from the other side and draw the past bridge. The room with the moving red platforms also requires time travel. Using a new opening in the southeast of the room, the baby bros. exit, enter a time hole back to the past, and activate the new ! Block to lower the platform.
=====Thwomp Volcano=====
*The first puzzle in the second area is altered to include time travel. The moveable yellow thing in the past is covered in wood spikes. There's a new ! Block that summons a time hole, near the east entrance of the room. The present has a non-spiked yellow platform, as well as a one-way time hole near the four-man Switch. The penultimate screen leading to the lab is covered in magma, making the matter less simple than a walk. In addition, a hot meteor is blocking the way to the lab. The Bros. need to navigate to the southwest of the screen to a present time hole. In the present, the Bros. can destroy the now-cooled rock. Then, near the ruins of the lab, there's a portal leading back to the past. After E. Gadd leaves his lab, the present version of it is opened and can be explored, all that can be found are the remains of the Giant Twack, eroded by weathering.
====Story Changes====
*In Yoob's Belly when Toadbert is about to hand his drawing to the Bros., he feels around his back pocket for it, noting he'll have to check them thoroughly once the commotion's settled down.
*In the Koopaseum, the room in the main colosseum only the babies can access has two Koopa announcers, Jopp'n and Madda. The two are in hiding due to the Shroobs. They promise to put on a great event in the future once the invaders leave with the help of an invention their biggest researcher is still working on. They then give the Bros. the VIP Card, a key item which can be used in the present Koopaseum.
*During the scene where Bowser breaks a part of the bridge in Peach's Castle, Mario and Luigi give chase to him, jumping down the part where the bridge is broken and following Bowser into the timehole, leading to an interactive cutscene inside of the timehole where the brothers fight Bowser. With the fight ending as Bowser shoots out from the time hole into the volcano. 
*In the Shroob Mothership, after the chute outside of the ship is opened and Kylie falls down, the Shroobs take out the key and drop it into the chute, with it landing somewhere in the Mushroom Kingdom.
*In Toad Town, to the right of the Gramma's shop, Stuffwell notices a gate heading northward. He confers his belief to the Bros. that this gate leads out into the main Mushroom Kingdom, and might give them easier access to old locations. By hitting a new ! Block on top of one of the purple mushrooms, the gate leading into the overworld opens.
==Pilots Ahoy: Fight for The Prince==
In this new story added to the game. The three Pilots from Baby Bowser's Koopa Cruiser have landed in Gritzy Desert after it crashes into Bowser's Castle and they decide to go on a search party to look for Baby Bowser. They travel through many different parts of the Past and Present Mushroom Kingdom and they even end up finding out the origins of Shroobs and what they were made from. During the adventure they meet a little baby version of Starlow and take her along with them in the journey, hoping to get some money from her parents.  
Unlike the previous two remakes, the gameplay in this mode is based on being a real time RPG as battles happen within the area itself without any transitions or turns to take. Levelling up also acts the same as it does in the main campaign of the remake where players can choose whatever stats they want to upgrade. 
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