![]() ![]() Anyway, Mario and Rabbids: Bars of Soap kicks off with surprisingly little fanfare. When he’s not just dutifully sticking his head in the “insert convenient antagonist here” cutout and he can act like his off-the-clock self, a sort of grumpy insecure divorced blue collar dad figure who works hard but always shows up to his kid’s football games and gets a little bit too into it. And the second pattern is that the quality of a Mario RPG-style spinoff is always, with zero exceptions, improved by Bowser being a playable character or party member. Once they’ve set the bar and gone through the motions, Old Man Nintendo turns his back for five seconds and the groundling creatives can start pissing about with the concept. That’s how we got Majora’s Mask and Paper Mario 2. But it’s worth paying attention whenever Nintendo does a thing TWICE. They very much participate in the thing-based economy. First, Nintendo doing a thing doesn’t mean much. See, Nintendo has two patterns from which Mario and Rabbids: Snarks of Hope benefits. Now when I go to the snarky impossible to please Youtube reviewer meetup I have to wear the silly hat and sit in the wheelie bin of shame. ![]() So we’re going through this little dance again, are we, in which Ubisoft’s proto-Minions mainly distinguished by their resemblance to a half-melted Spongebob Squarepants ice cream attempt to sustain their long redundant existence by clinging to the coat tails of one of the few video game franchises with an even more overdone shtick, making the combined tiredness of this hacked-out sequel somewhere on the level of a truckstop whore the morning after the viagra shipment passed through OH ALRIGHT I ADMIT IT I KINDA LIKED MARIO AND RABBIDS SPARKS OF HOPE. Welp, guess it wasn’t a one night stand after all. We have a merch store as well! Visit the store for brand new ZP merch. Want to watch Zero Punctuation ad-free? Sign-up for The Escapist + today and support your favorite content creators! ![]() This week in Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope.įor more major games Yahtz has reviewed lately, check out Gotham Knights, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Return to Monkey Island, Splatoon 3, The Mortuary Assistant, Saints Row, and Elden Ring. ![]()
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