90
A dreamy adventure in a dreamy world. Thankfully Mario's vacations always end in crisis, since they seem to make excellent games. Dream Team Bros is both funny and sympathetic at the same time. [Aug 2013]
80
Mario along with Luigi mash their competition by far with their new ideas, and they also manage to entertain both the young and the old ones. [Issue#232]
90
The battles prove your skill, the humor will make you laugh and the design of La Dormita and its dream-pendant are gorgeous.
8
Cool game ! -------------------
9
The tutorials are many and do get annoying sometimes and to me, the bros attacks are some of the weaker in the series, especially considering how long the game is. The story is kept simple and lighthearted, making you really feel like you're taking a vacation. I like it. Everything else is stellar, tho. The combat is fun and diverse, there's some little minigames here and there and the final boss is one of the best in the series. The overall environment is lively and beautiful and invites you to take a vacation there yourself. Final critique point: I don't think the hard mode is very good. Simply increasing damage taken for most of the fights and making you replay from your last save (which essentially just means you'll have to sit through a cutscene every time you retry a fight) is not very fun. I would have preferred giving enemies more health and increasing their damage less in return.
10
Bestes Mario & Luigi meiner Meinung nach. Insgesamt hat das Game für mich den besten Soundtrack in einem Mario-RPG-Game. Die Welten sind super schön, die Bosse stark und auch das Kampfsystem ist richtig gut und spaßig. Das Wechseln zwischen Traum- und realer Welt ist auch mega nice. Auch die Kämpfe gegen die Geganten sind geil und besser als im Vorgänger wie ich finde.
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
3DS
Released On:
Aug 11, 2013
Metascore
Generally Favorable
81
User score
Generally Favorable
8.3
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Jul 12, 2013
95
Except for the tutorials and the long sessions it requires, it's a wonderful adventure in every aspect that offers tons of fun.
Aug 8, 2013
90
Nintendo’s 3DS is suddenly brimming with great first-party games, and Mario & Luigi: Dream Team is a standout among them. Don’t miss it.
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8.3
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Jan 29, 2025
10
Bestes Mario & Luigi meiner Meinung nach. Insgesamt hat das Game für mich den besten Soundtrack in einem Mario-RPG-Game. Die Welten sind super schön, die Bosse stark und auch das Kampfsystem ist richtig gut und spaßig. Das Wechseln zwischen Traum- und realer Welt ist auch mega nice. Auch die Kämpfe gegen die Geganten sind geil und besser als im Vorgänger wie ich finde.
Jan 2, 2025
10
Everything about this game makes me go, "This is perfect, absolutely perfect." The things I love about this game are everything down to the story, the soundtrack, the controls, and the combat. This game is my favorite Mario RPG game.
Aug 8, 2013
88
Dream Team is fairly lengthy and there are always new things to see and do, keeping gameplay fresh.
Jul 15, 2013
83
It might not quite hit the highs of Bowser’s Inside Story, but it’s still essential; yet another must-have title to the 3DS’ ever-increasing library of incredible first party games.
Jul 12, 2013
80
While we would have preferred a greater challenge, Mario and Luigi Dream Team Bros is a hugely entertaining game with a funny script, a pleasing aesthetic and lots of unique and interesting gameplay twists.
Aug 7, 2013
70
Dream Team‘s bright and friendly world is an easy one to fall in love with, but by the time you reach the end, that love will have been tested repeatedly by uneven design and a lack of narrative follow-through. Many of its flaws could be reduced to its strict following of the series’ formula without expanding on what makes it endearing. Much like Luigi’s dreams, AlphaDream’s latest is a little pre-occupied with expectations of Big Bro.
Aug 8, 2013
60
Fans of the series will find more to love than the rest, but Paper Mario 3D allows players of all levels to get to the point a lot faster. Though Dream Team has one of the better 3D effects, in both 2D and 3D gameplay, you're more likely to shut your eyes than cross them. There are hours of entertainment for patient players willing to read and giggle at silly accents, but I'd rather explore Bowser's dreams instead.
Jul 5, 2018
7
A Mario & Luigi game through and through, which occasionally offers glimpses of the greatness of the first and third entries in the series and maintains tight combat throughout, but suffers horribly from ever-worsening omnipresent tutorialization and multiple overly drawn out parts of the game where the plot comes to an absolute standstill for several hours straight while you ditz around with repetitive dream worlds and battle the same enemies a couple dozen times in a row. Basically an otherwise solid entry in the series brought down a few notches by abhorrent pacing issues.
Jun 18, 2015
7
Is Dream Team a very good add to the Mario RPG series? Yes. Does it live it up to the previous games? Not really. The graphics are fantastic and presented beautifully on the 3DS, the music is amazing, the classic Mario-game humor and silliness is there and the whole real world/dream world features are well done. What the game lacks however, is good pacing, as the game's progress is slowed horribly by repetitive and unskippable tutorials and cutscenes, which are even worse when playing the game in Hard Mode (since the game relies purely on game saves on that mode). Another downside is the story, and though it can be interesting and original at times, is not very engaging overall and feels loosely stitched together. It's a game worth buying, but it's not as clever **** as it's prequel, Bowser's Inside Story.
Jan 1, 2021
4
Game soft locked. Unable to progress. SOFT LOCKED - game soft locked in Mount pajamaja. The massif bros triggered an older cutscene when I interacted with them, halting the progress and rendering the game unplayable. Neither do I have a old save to load. This is why they should allow the player to create multiple save slots to avoid game breaking glitches like these from ruining the game. Would've given a higher score if I was able to continue playing. My review before the soft lock happened: Good - not being able to scroll the map with stylus is inconvenient - 3D battles are fun and different Bad - too many tutorials for obvious things. The game holds your hand on the most obvious little puzzles.
Summary(Also known as "Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Bros") A new installment in the Mario & Luigi role-playing series is coming to Nintendo 3DS this summer. The game takes place inside the mind of a sleeping Luigi, who is a powerful, brave hero in his dreams.
Rated E +10for Everyone +10
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Initial Release Date:Aug 11, 2013
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