How ONE Game DESTROYED The Nintendo 3DS- Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story/Bowser Jr's Journey

The Nintendo 3DS was a larger success than most imagined it would be. In fact, Nintendo planned on supporting it even beyond the launch of the Nintendo Switch. But considering hype for the Nintendo 3DS was quite low after the launch of the Switch, many games such as the Luigi's Mansion remake as well as Metroid Samus Returns did not do so well. But they did not had much of an affect. The same can't be said for Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story/Bowser Jr's Journey. One of the WORST selling Mario games only above games like Mario Clash and eShop titles, this game caused AlphaDream to shut down as well as the Nintendo 3DS to end support. The story of this game is often talked about, but not often the game itself. So the question is, could it be a hidden gem?

[@knk7744]

But damn it really seems like Nintendo wanted to get rid of AlphaDream

[@WeDoALittleTrolling9679]

It’s sad that it didn’t sell well and what’s worse is that this game is a great game great music great visuals and just overall a great game

[@barelyhere7200]

The truth is the game isn’t bad. Its bowsers inside story and everyone loves that game and the Bowser Junior side mode is a really nice addition. The problem is that the game was very unnecessary and it was the final nail in the coffin for alpha dream

[@julianx2rl]

That's not just an ending, that's a stab to the heart...

[@alikaisdead]

It didn't kill the 3ds, the 3ds was already dead, but it did bankrupt Alphadream

[@he1274]

Nobody remembers Kirby's extra epic yarn.

[@therealjaystone2344]

OG Bowser’s Inside Story was at its peak level. I still had mine to this day.

[@guyonyoutube3850]

The way Demeech's fury was unleashed was the plot twist of the century

[@Vextrove]

Lol double upvote for shouting when ranting on Mario U Deluxe

[@awesomeocelot7475]

I hate how the remake makes everything so much slower and sluggish…

[@user-bb2op9he1x]

I really dont like this remake but I gotta say, the story of bowser jr journey is the best story we got last decade from any mario rpg including dream team, it explores jr. and the koopalings characters in ways we had never seen before, and the way he goes through an arc to discover that he was dickhead to them is just so cool, we havnt had an arc like that in the mario rpgs for a while now

[@hellacia8151]

This wasn't ever about unleashing Demeech's Fury At Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr's minions.

[@carroesg6]

There was certainly a precedent for this remake. The games after BiS (Dream Team and Paper Jam) did not sell nearly as well, so that motivated Alphadream to just remake their older games as a last resort. They probably decided to go with BiS rather than PiT because it was their most popular game, but unfortunately it flopped in sales for the reasons you stated in this video.

[@robertthechannel1799]

Part of me was worried you’d tear into this game with the teaser, but I think your target at Maximum Fury absolutely deserved it.

[@crimsongaming187]

"The 2ds was only 80$ and it came with Mario Kart 7. Now all we get are broken controllers for 80$"

[@nickk3077]

I like how we got the remake of BIS on 3DS. At first, I thought it was dumb to remake this game for a console that can already play the original game on and the fact that there isn't any 3D (which I still really don't like or understand), but honestly... BIS is such a unique game in the sense that in basically needs to be on a DS to be what it is. If we received a Switch version, it wouldn't be the same.

[@miasuke]

They said Link's Awakening on Switch was originally a 3DS title. But after Bowser's Inside Story, the plans changed to release Link's Awakening on Switch.

[@willowids369]

Fun fact: the last game Alphadream worked on was actually Mario And Sonic 2020 Olympic games.

[@a17yearoldonyoutubeluigi]

A game like this deserves fury for Nintendo itself, for basically putting it out to die, and actively trying to kill Alpha Dream.

[@noahplayssomegames]

I’ll be one to regard Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story as one of the greatest RPGs of all time, and even though I have the original and still do prefer it more, I did pick up the remake and had a lot of fun with it thanks to there being enough small changes that add up to make them feeling like two different experiences. It’s such a brilliantly executed, absurd, and heartrich game that you can’t find any RPG quite like it. That’s what still makes the remake worth double dipping on in my opinion. Lightning can’t strike the same place twice, but this is about as close as it can.