[Let’s Talk] Which Mario RPG series do you prefer?

The Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi franchises have both been around for a long time. Various games have been released across different generations of Nintendo hardware. Paper Mario has mostly seen a fairly consistent lineup of games, but it was the future of Mario & Luigi that was in doubt after developer AlphaDream shuttered several years back. Now development duties of the series have shifted to Acquire, the company who worked on the Octopath Traveler titles.

Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi are often compared (we’re not forgetting Mario RPG, but there’s just one game for that IP). Some fans prefer one of these series over the other. With Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door came to Switch earlier this year and Mario & Luigi: Brothership having just released, we wanted to ask where you stand. If you had to choose, are you Team Paper Mario or Team Mario & Luigi? Let us know in the comments.

Highlights from last week’s topic: What are you playing? – November 2024

Shmuel McConen

Mario and Luigi are back babyyyyy! This isn’t the best game in the series, but it’s a good and fun game with some flaws that thankfully don’t ruin the experience in any way. Combat is fun, writing is funny, music is good – I’m having fun 🙂

Justin

Finally started Echos of Wisdom last weekend, been playing it whenever I get the opportunity, great so far.

Also downloaded Pokemon TCGP just to open free packs for fun. After decades I finally know how to play lol.

Vinicius

Tried to start the second game in Another Code Recollection, but gave up early. Wasn’t in the mood.

Started Ys X today. Currently at chapter 2 where things start to pick up steam.

Luke Houser

Looking to board ol’ Brothership soon. Also, kind of enjoying Judgement and its sequel on Series X, the best version of both games.