With tight battle mechanics, engaging puzzles, and new characters that become more endearing as the story goes on, Mario & Luigi: Brothership has all the hallmarks of a great RPG. It’s still no Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, but it’s not far off.

Brothership begins in the Mushroom Kingdom, but the sibling plumbers are quickly sucked into another world that needs their unique brand of help. The electricity-themed land of Concordia once existed as a single continent with a melting pot of different people.

I used to play Mario & Luigi RPGs on the Nintendo DS a long time ago. I always got a kick out of how they cleverly blended controls for both Mario and Luigi with button-mapping, making it feel like you were taking both on an adventure.