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| Hi-ho, hi-ho, 'tis off to work we go! |
Platform: 3DS
Session fun rating: 9/10
I played through the desert area which was pretty damn big. This was easily the longest and deepest section of the game so far. I was faced with another impossible to climb sand waterfall. To release the platforms that would let me climb, I had to find and rescue 4 pillow people, all of them hidden across the area.
The famous plumbers had to use a new device, a large drilling cart on rails, to recover the little pillows. On each side of the device were two drills that could be activated by Mario and Luigi respectively. The whole area is littered with railed paths for the cart to move through. I had to destroy rocks along the rails, turn over some switches to change the path of the cart and even had to hit a giant mole in the head with it, but more on that later. I fought tons of enemies, found some beans and rescued 5 pillow dudes from nightmares. Luigi also gained a new Luiginary move, this time, he can transform into a weird drilling post. Mario can then jump on and fling himself in different directions based on his momentum. It makes for some pretty cool 2D sections.
Last but not least, we fought a boss, a giant mole with a drill for a head. Some of it's moves were pretty tricky to avoid but we got through it with the help of a couple of mushrooms and some fireballs.
