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| | IGN: Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time Review |
 | | But even with that influence the designers have injected a ton of originality into the story, situations, and gameplay for its own series, and the first true sequel, Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, expand on the previous game with some enormously clever elements that wouldn't be possible without the Nintendo DS system's dual-screen layout. |
 | | The original Mario & Luigi is a role-playing spin-off series in the same vein as Super Mario RPG on the Super NES and the Paper Mario series established on the N64 and continued on the GameCube. |
 | | Like all good RPG designs, Mario & Luigi is part exploration, part puzzle solving, and part turn-based battling, but the Mario franchise works so well in an RPG genre because the designers stick to many of the elements that make Mario, well, Mario. |
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