![]() ![]() When it comes time to do battle, players will have to assemble their crew of nine intrepid fighters into a three-hero squad (although guest characters will join up for the occasional boss fight). Certain side quests will flip the switch on nostalgia and provide the player with some remixed jams from the era of Super Mario Brothers 3 and Super Mario World that both excite and delight. While more uniquely designed than inspired by Miyamoto's iconic plumber's history, the trio of composers between Yoko Shimomura, Grant Kirkhope, and Gareth Coker has come up with some catchy battle tracks to keep the player motivated between the numerous encounters they'll find themselves forced into. The usual tasks that accompany any 3D Mario platformer can be found here in Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope: timed challenges to collect red or green coins, puzzles involving sliding platforms or elevators, and even the task to find every penguin you can in the obligatory snowy mountain biome and throw them (safely onto a pirate ship, not off of a cliff). Even the first planet offered me around six to seven hours of content to run around and explore as I gathered every coin or Spark, shook every bush I could find, and completed any environmental puzzle that stood in my way (perhaps the only thing left to discover during my first trip to the planet was a warp pipe that required Mario to be holding twelve Sparks in order to proceed). While there's no shortage of enemies to encounter or gigantic bosses to fight, plenty of diversions and side tasks are scattered throughout each planet. The unlikely colleagues of Mario, Rabbid Mario, and others are called to action once more, taking their spaceship from planet to planet to clear away the Darkmess and bring hope to the land once more.Įach planet is unique in its own way and brings some charm to Sparks of Hope, just as each 3D Mario platformer had done before. As thick, goopy tentacles of Stygian Darkmess creep throughout the land, they often attach themselves to host planets and siphon away any color or energy to fuel Cursa's ambitions. ![]() Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope opens with an evil entity known as Cursa speaking vile darkness across the galaxy while capturing the Sparks that might prove to be the only way to break the curse, so to speak. Can Rabbid Mario save the galaxy from the Darkmess one more time, or is all hope for capturing the magic of the original game lost? Ubisoft hopes to recapture that Spark of lightning in a bottle with another similarly strategic RPG with Sparks of Hope. The unholy matrimony between Miyamoto's Mario characters and Ubisoft's ravenous Rabbids was a match few could have expected, yet somehow worked as a Nintendo Switch exclusive in the original Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. ![]()
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