While 2024 was a somewhat quieter year when it came to Nintendo releases, compared to the monster that was 2023, there were still some notable highlights. Among the games released in 2024 included remasters of Mario vs. Donkey Kong and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, along with the release of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Super Mario Party Jamboree and Mario & Luigi: Brothership.
The latter represented the most recent entry in the RPG offshoot of everyone's favorite plumbers. It also marked the first game in the series since 2018, and the first true entry since 2013. In other words, it was a long time coming.
That said, while we know it now as Brothership, there was a period of time when the game was planning to be released as something else entirely. That is until Nintendo stepped in.
Brothership has a slow start, but once you unlock battle plugs, everything changes.
As first spotted by Nintendo Life, developer Acquire wasn't originally planning on Mario & Luigi: Brothership, to be called exactly that. In fact, it was going to be named Mario & Luigi: Wonder. In an interview, producer Akira Otani shared just what happened to the original...
