Rhyming a review of Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle
Welcome to games over, the same show you’ve seen on other channels, reviewing some utter barrel bottom scum games, but I maintain a different version, a simpler concern for getting my thoughts out quick as the credits tick up, no time for deep thinking but this time I’m winking this eye because I’m trying to rhyme the entire time? Why? Just trying to find that absurd line between review channel mimicry and a gimmick we, you and me, can agree is worth a few views, a share perhaps, recommending what you’ve seen here, maybe fueled by beer, to between three and thirteen people even if you perceive me as an a-hole. Which is easy. This may be annoying. Sorry.
The credits have rolled on a game I’ve been told for months I should play and today I can say to those pushers, those laymen who stay in the realm of Mario, never to go far below the surface to purchase little known franchises, but they’re right, these guys that insist on wise legends, Nintendo exists as it does because the fun they can pump up rarely disappoints and though this game was made by a name not Nintendo it goes to show a known IP can be treated respectfully, and fun can be underneath that surface while staying alert to the glee that we, you and me, need from the Mario party. And the added Rabbids aren’t blasphemous but an added twist to a proven recipe like a sprinkle of thyme to a crinkle cut fry. (Don’t try that at home, I don’t know if it’s shown to be good. It just rhymed so I shouldn’t be blamed if you take away ketchup and replace with a lame herb or worse eat the fry plain…wait, what was I saying?)
Oh yeah, the game. It’s great, helped by turn based mechanics because though I’m a game addict I’m one far happier lacking the twitchy combat of first person fanatics. I like to relax and plan out my attack. It’s not a diversion or distraction away from lacking skills to play, but rather a way my introversion’s exposed. If you want to know more I made a video before about extroverts and introverts and how it changes the way some of us play games. Click the card in the corner.
As the game presses on with new weapons, and new pawns you’ll find the battles and wars harder, the escort missions a bother, and Bowser Jr’s father appears to steer the show at the end, that not a spoiler for a game with Mario in it.
Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle exists to insist that Nintendo isn’t void of twists and cool tricks, but true that too produce such magic Ubisoft was tapped like a magician’s assistant for help and to bring with it a bit of outside perspective and maybe, perhaps this will show Nintendo that too tap more 3rd parties with a good bit of kit can sit well with fans and appease leagues of us for eons to come.
Thank you for watching this bit of a tease as I realize the review is deprived of meat and sinew, and is instead superficial, but please don’t be critical. There’s an upside. I had tried to rhyme the entire time, and I did just fine. If you like what you heard, spread the word. Share and subscribe.
Mentioned
The following are YouTube videos licensed under CC BY 3.0
- Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle HD Part 42: Der große Showdown (+ Fazit?)
- Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle World 1-8 to 1-9
Music Credits
8bit Dungeon Level Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
