Mario & Luigi: Brothership Developer Has Supposedly Been Revealed

Never heard of them, but whatever, game looks good anyways, I kinda figured it was Level-5 or something.

Thought it was rumored to be ILCA, as it has the most former AlphaDream devs there while others split up into different companies.

@Joeynator3000
They're the devs behind Octopath Traveler, one of their magnum opus for a JRPG.

I am so behind on the latest Mario RPG type games. Never finished Mario and luigi bowsers inside story, Dream team, paper Jam or even the 2nd mario rabbids game. Think i better start working on those.

Still wondering about the actual names behind the product myself. They said former Alphadream devs worked on this but that doesn't mean a lot if we don't know what their roles were.

Well that's unexpected, but definitely cool!

@DerpyBoxDx Yeah I know, but I never played those games, so...

This is awesome, but now I’m even less sure about what Mario RPG series Nintendos actually gonna stick with considering acquire seems to be pretty busy usually.

Which Tenchu games exactly? Because if it's post PS2 Era then.......(tugs collar)😅

They are keeping this a secret like Marvel keeps after-credits scene a secret.
What was the point of this?

@Dizzymario I mean, previous Mario & Luigi's have been compromised of relatively small dev teams and Acquire is a pretty big studio. Doesn't seem unreasonable that they would have a small sub team dedicated to making M&L games.

I think it's worth noting that this simply indicates that Acquire is the lead developer of the game. The IP/copyright information for Nintendo's Switch games doesn't tend to mention less prominent codevelopers or contributors, from what I remember. So it is entirely possible that ILCA still acted as a codeveloper on Brothership, which would make sense for various reasons:

• Acquire isn't that big of a studio and apparently has been releasing a lot of games lately, or at least codeveloping them
• ILCA started out as a support studio and has still been serving in that role for games like Pokemon Scarlet and Violet
• ILCA's original focus was apparently on CG animation, which could indicate they assisted with animation work on Brothership
• ILCA still has more known AlphaDream alumni than any other studio (though it's possible Acquire absorbed more, and they've just worked on Brothership since, hence the lack of credits on games like Octopath Traveler II)

We won't know further details until someone rolls credits on the game. But if nothing else, I'm happy to hear the game is in great hands. I haven't played Octopath II yet, but people were raving about it being one of the best RPGs released in years.

@Keyblade-Dan The first two.

Oh! The devs behind octopath. Then i know for sure this game is in good hands.
Cant wait to play it.

Not looking forward to it now. I hated Octopath Traveler.

@MatoFilipovic This isn't new, like @PikaPhantom mentioned, it's very common for Nintendo to not plaster all the devs involved on the promotional stuff. I think they would rather people just assume it's Nintendo-made & not think too much past that. We usually don't find out until after release who all was involved on a game.

I don’t believe I’ve played any games by Acquire, but I’m super excited for this one!

@babybilly Oh man we're in good hands then because the OG Tenchu are just incredible ^__^

I kinda forgot about the Way of the Samurai franchise! I used to love the heck outta them when I was a lad

Maybe, just a possibility, but maybe...
A few more games left in the series, about 10. 🥲

Cool, they made some good games.

That is dope!!! Man and I've been cautious, hard to imagine though, octopath 2 was just packed with special things to get, moves and items with interesting effects. I really wonder what fingerprint they'd have on it. I loved the octopath traveller 2 art style, kind of disappointed me on dq3hd2d remake.

Every time the subject of Acquire comes up my response is just, "Can we please have a Way of the Samurai remaster?"

Weird, I thought they already had revealed this but I was mistaken. So it is Acquire... At least it's in good hands.

Great news since I love Octopath Traveler! Even more excited for this game now. That reveals why I couldn't help but feel a positive intuition about Brothership while watching the trailers.

Nice. Will probably pick this one up after a huge discount

I'd really like to see another Tenchu game. Only stealth game I actually enjoy.

I'll always know Aquire as the guys what made the vampire game about streaking through Tokyo

@babybilly That makes sense. However, if it is so common, why are there articles about it?
There is like this artificial aura of mystery around the whole thing.

@ArcticEcho Really? You're judging a game pre-release based on the developer's previous work which has little overlap with this current title (other than the fact that they are both turn-based JRPGs, Octopath and M&L are completely different games).

I kind of hope that this means that the final boss will be as difficult as Cackletta Soul, seeing how Octopath had a notoriously difficult final boss of its own.

I hope this means Brothership will have a brutally difficult, Galdera- or True Vide-level secret final boss.

Sounds good to me, would love for the Mario RPG franchise to get a bit more involved without losing it's DNA.

@Keyblade-Dan I’m not trying to be flip, but those games were made about a quarter of a century ago. Do you think that studio has remained the same since? Also, they did do the 2009 Tenchu game and that wasn’t well-received.

Whether this will work out well remains to be seen. Yes, they did *co-*develop Octopath I&II but their track record besides those is rather middling. Hopefully Nintendo gave them the oversight needed to succeed once more.

@Keyblade-Dan Only the first one.

@Axecon They didn’t judge it. They said they aren’t looking forward to it now. I think Octopath is great, but if someone didn’t enjoy a turn-based RPG from one studio, why should they not make a reasonable speculation that they won’t enjoy the next? They might be wrong and end up loving the game, but using a studio’s past record is far more reasonable than gut feeling based on trailers and such.

@Zeebor15 What

@PikaPhantom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GniRsw4siPs

@Zeebor15 What makes you think I'm not prepared

@PikaPhantom If you do not know the knowlede then you are not prepared for the knowledge

@ArcticEcho I’m not sure if you ever played a Mario & Luigi game before, but you have nothing to worry about. They play completely different than the Octopath games.

Besides, it’s still a collaboration with Nintendo. It’s Nintendo who pulls the strings on this.

@ArcticEcho Mario & Luigi is nothing like Octopath so I don't think that's a fair statement to make

@Joeynator3000 Level 5?! They can't get a single game out the door, let alone co-develop one!