PLATFORM: Switch PLAY TIME: 14h 15m
Not wanting to spend more money on another game, I decided to raid my six-year-old’s cartridge collection and came across Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. I’d played it before in the VS mode with my wife, Adele, and we had a lot of fun with it for a while. Eventually, though, it wore thin once we’d run through all the maps and knew each other’s strategies inside out.
This time I decided to try the story mode properly, and I ended up enjoying it far more than I expected. The game blends puzzle elements with turn-based battles, which is a style of gameplay I actually prefer over the usual Mario platformers.
It’s also more challenging than it first appears. Some of the battles really make you think about positioning, abilities, and how to use the environment to your advantage. That’s why I’m slightly baffled that my six-year-old is somehow managing to make his way through it as well.
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is a turn-based strategy adventure developed by Ubisoft Milan and Ubisoft Paris and published by Ubisoft for the Nintendo Switch.
In the game, a mysterious vortex pulls the mischievous Rabbids into the Mushroom Kingdom, throwing the world into chaos. Mario joins forces with Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi and their Rabbids counterparts to travel across different regions of the kingdom and restore order. Along the way, players explore colourful environments, solve puzzles and take part in turn-based battles that combine movement, cover and character abilities to defeat enemies and progress through the adventure.
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