Is Mario & Luigi: Brothership a Reboot? | Theory and Analysis 

I feel like its not a reboot because in one part of the trailer there is an area that looks very similar to Mount Pajamaja from Dream Team, so maybe you can somehow explore some reimagined locations from Mario And Luigi's legacy. Plus, in the direct, they called it a new entry and not a reboot.

It's definitely a sequel to the series. Otherwise they probably wouldn't add a subtitle.

I kinda hope they bring back the Shroobs as an optional boss like with B'sIS. But that'd be unlikely.

The villains look like the Best fitness friends and their eyes look like antasmas

I was thinking honestly this could be a soft reboot. Especially since partners in time they were adding new buttons while this seems only mario and luigi.

I really hope Hi-Fi Rush is given the same treatment in the far future (in-terms of the IP being passed on to a new studio that understands it, but considering that this is Microsoft where talking about here in this comment, it’s a bit of a fat chance).

This is definitely a sequel. Like it or not, Paper Jam is the 5th Mario & Luigi game and Brothership is Mario & Luigi 6! Seems to me that Peach and Bowser will be assisting Mario & Luigi as maybe some kind of special that you earn like in Super Mario RPG. How sick would it be if the Super Mario Bros. got 2 extra teammates later on in the game in the form of Wario and Waluigi? I don't know, though. It feels like it's just going to be the Super Mario Bros. in this game. Just like in SS, BIS (Bowser was separate), and DT. PIT saw the Super Mario Bros. teaming with their baby counterparts and PJ saw them teaming up with Paper Mario. My dream Mario & Luigi game would be the Super Mario Bros. teaming up with Wario and Waluigi! Maybe in a future Mario & Luigi game!

I’m just glad we’re getting another Mario and Luigi game

This is a FAR STRETCH but those extension corp guys look similar to the smithy gang in a way. They look mechanical and the lanky purple one in the middle seems to have a canon in his head sorta how smithy gangs members were based off of weapons. Either these new villains are inspired or have some sort of connection but this is just a theory.

7:26 I would not count on it. I seen peach get kidnapped at certain points in the Mario and Luigi spinoff games.

The quality of this video is absolutely phenomenal for how little subscribers and viewers you have. I wish you good luck for the future.

Well we'll just have to see about the European title: Mario and Luigi Brothership Bros.

LM2HD was made by Tantalus btw not NLG

I think this is the true Mario and Luigi RPG 5, 11 years after Dream Team. Paper Jam was more of a crossover

I hope the gameplay gimmicks are toned down for this one. Don’t get me wrong. I love what BiS and DT added to the series, but a return to basics could do this series a lot of good. Maybe implementing a system similar to “Advance” from SS where attacks can evolve with repeated use.

There are two original Mario and Luigi enemies that reappear, so they can use other ML characters, and the series has such a simple "overarching" story that it would be unnecessary to reboot it.

Alphadream is dead tho, unlike Square Enix, so it's likely even if Alphadream HAD partial rights, they were scooped up by Nintendo. (Tbh, I don't think Alphadream did.)

I hope these future Mario and Luigi games resemble the first three with the first being a simple but fun experience the second having a dark tone and the third having a insane concept.

This is Mario and Luigi RPG 6.

I don't really see how it'd be, it looks like we're travelling outside the mushroom kingdom so it'd be kinda hard to know if things from past games are canon or not

I think it's like a soft reboot, like it'll be 90% on its own but with a tiny bit of call backs, I personally don't want it to be littered with call backs and returning characters, I think the game should be allowed to stand on its own so all these people talking about Fawful or Antasma coming back kinda bug me (I'm not referring to any specific people btw) Plus think about it, this will be a lot of peoples first Mario & Luigi game so it doesn't make sense to have a load of call backs and returning characters especially in the main story

I go the idea this was going to be a continuation merely from the character design. The extension corps really reminds me of Antasma

When Rare was bought by Microsoft, all the DK Country/64 characters (created by Rare) went back to Nintendo’s ownership. So after Alpha Dream’s closer, their creations reverted back to Nintendo.

Ah some of the developer of Alpha dream work in this game

Plantapedia have to say Mario & Luigi Brothership is a new game.

This was a great watch. Your narration is clear and precise, your editing style is silky smooth, awesome stuff! You deserve way more viewership and subscribers! ❤❤❤ And, on topic, I wouldn't mind if M&L:BS was a reboot, honestly. A lot of the series main-stays started to get old once we reached Paper Jam (looking at you Starlow) and bringing back that earlier level of experimentation I think is great for the series in my opinion. :)

To me Paper Jam ticks way more of the boxes of a reboot than this. Every other Mario & Luigi game is rich with original characters, every sequel calls back to the events of the previous games with returning characters, and then there's Paper Jam. Which is just... a typical 2010s Mario game. Besides Starlow, nothing about Paper Jam's story and characters are Mario & Luigi in the slightest. While Brothership just in this first trailer OOZES with M&L energy. To me, Paper Jam was the reboot, stripping the cast of characters back to just what can be found in the NSMB series and going for a painfully played-straight 2D Mario-tier kidnapping plot. The M&L remakes were the original vision for the series gasping for air, before AlphaDream's debt and the lack of any fandom-side excitement for the remakes (which I will never understand) shoving them back under to drown. And then Brothership finally rising from the ashes and reversing ALL of Paper Jam's insulting sanitization. As far as I'm concerned Brothership is the Mario & Luigi 5 you couldn't put a gun to my head to make me call Paper Jam.

Tantalus did Luigi's mansion 2 hd, not next level games

Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD isn’t Next Level Games, it’s Tantalus.

Geno is only owned by Square Enix

The Mario & Luigi series got increasingly muddled towards the end. Remakes sanitized the original games' charm a bit, coinciding with the period that brought us Sticker Star during a shift away from traditional RPGs. Around the same time, we even saw a Mario & Luigi crossover with Paper Mario. Given the current RPG renaissance at Nintendo, a soft reboot that brings the series back to its roots makes a lot of sense to me.

Why would this be a reboot... i swear yall do anything for views