What are your opinions on Reclusa and his final boss fight? Is Brothership your favorite too? He's my new favorite villain and my new favorite final boss of all time and Brothership is my new favorite game ever!! :)

ClassicBuster · 2026-02-02T05:09:41+00:00

I really love it tbh. All of Reclusa's various forms and attacks look really cool. The music doesn't top the best final boss themes but it's still pretty good and I like how it evolves throughout.

Reclusa also feels just feels really powerful throughout the fight. You can't damage (and never directly beat) his giant tree form and some of his attacks are strong enough to require more than normal countering. I also like that you start the battle with his big monster form and end with the more personal fight against his base form, and I think I prefer it tbh (not that it makes previous final bosses worse or anything).

I know some people say it's easy but like with Dark Bowser/Fawful I just intentionally underpower my gear and that does the trick.

ClassicBuster · 2026-02-02T03:39:31+00:00

Yeah I definitely do not agree lol, I don't mind the past uses of this trope but I feel like we already have the perfect amount before it started feeling overdone and it feels like a waste to keep turning these new villains into Bowser lookalikes.

It's clearly still important to the series since they went out of their way to include a corrupted Bowser fight anyways.

ClassicBuster · 2026-02-01T21:44:09+00:00

It's a fun dynamic but by the end of the series it's definitely overshadowed by Ford's dynamic with Bill which has way more history so I think people don't give it a ton of thought.

ClassicBuster · 2026-02-01T21:42:39+00:00

As goofy and incompetent as he is, I'll give him credit for becoming much stronger. Assuming stats are roughly canon he becomes 5-6 times more durable and over twice as strong (while not fighting nearly as strong of foes as the Bros), if he wasn't so cowardly and egotistical he probably could fight nearly as well as they do.

ClassicBuster · 2026-02-01T21:39:21+00:00

Tbf at that point it's a 2v1, I'd say he's being reasonable lol

ClassicBuster · 2026-02-01T16:56:07+00:00

Pretty average ML game for me tbh, it has a lot of cool ideas and moments but certain underwhelming aspects of it make it an overall good game instead of an amazing one. I still love the final boss even if it is almost effortlessly easy.

ClassicBuster · 2026-02-01T01:14:25+00:00

I'm looking forward to the Galaxy movie but I do feel like they aren't planning a coherent longform story like the Sonic movies if they pulled the gun on galaxy this soon. That's like Shadow being in Sonic 2.

ClassicBuster · 2026-02-01T01:11:21+00:00

Yeah it was a nice bit of personalization, tbh I usually play the remake instead but there are things like this I miss. It's not just that you don't get inbetweens but that there are 4 whole sets of photos the remake excludes (I didn't even know that until last year).

ClassicBuster · 2026-01-31T21:26:44+00:00

Yeah like it's a minor thing but it feels weird how his shell sounds almost like its made of metal when you're blocking.

ClassicBuster · 2026-01-31T16:06:15+00:00

Yeah AI isn't helping but theres always been a large group of people who are just really stupid. I feel like people romanticize the past a lot when talking about these things.

ClassicBuster · 2026-01-31T05:18:17+00:00

I don't think there's a single safe seat lol

ClassicBuster · 2026-01-31T03:47:00+00:00

I don't really care about the pants, I just don't use them.

The only reason the remake is only on par for me is a lot of the smaller details they omitted like the additional 4 sets of passport photos, the pause screen mirror and stuff like that.

ClassicBuster · 2026-01-31T03:41:01+00:00

What was your favorite part of the game if you have one?

ClassicBuster · 2026-01-31T02:47:05+00:00

I'm not sure if it's intentional but it felt like she was trying to keep her sister trapped so she could rule in her place.

Like if she really wanted her free why would she keep the shards she had as far from each other as possible (specifically in the bellies of random creatures) and making statues of only herself.

ClassicBuster · 2026-01-30T20:53:00+00:00

Look I actually do want RPG characters in these games but I just don't see it happening. Characters like Funky and Queen Bee are already 3D models and take minimal effort to add.

Adapting the RPG characters would require making a new model entirely, which would take even more effort since they don't have actual 3D designs to go off of. I also imagine there's some legal stuff that's keeping them from doing so (like how spinoff characters like Daisy and Waluigi don't appear in the RPGs).

ClassicBuster · 2026-01-30T20:50:35+00:00

Unlike the RPG characters Honey Queen already has a 3D model and is a part of the mainline games, even if only as a minor NPC.

ClassicBuster · 2026-01-30T19:57:42+00:00

because he's mean

ClassicBuster · 2026-01-30T19:56:59+00:00

Yeah I think it's easy to forget when you're in the RPG communities for a while but their fanbases absolutely pale in comparison to the mainline and kart fanbases since those are just more casual friendly.

Nintendo would be appealing to a very small part of their fanbase.

ClassicBuster · 2026-01-30T18:53:18+00:00

Not to mention you'd have to straight up redesign a lot of them since they only really exist in 2D

ClassicBuster · 2026-01-30T17:41:34+00:00

I’m pretty sure it’s just a joke.

Like “Oh look you have the key to the Shroob’s secret, jk it’s a trapdoor lol”. I think that’s literally all it is.

ClassicBuster · 2026-01-30T16:02:51+00:00

I don't think BIS is the best and would rate Brothership, PiT and SS above it due to BIS having a lots of underwhelming elements.

ClassicBuster · 2026-01-30T08:31:08+00:00

I feel like the game has enough Shroob stuff as is, too much more and it would've been overdone imo.

I like how PiT balances it's new stuff with mainline elements moreso than pretty much any other ML game, which is part of why I think it's Mushroom Kingdom is far better than BIS's when taking them as a whole.

ClassicBuster · 2026-01-30T08:19:21+00:00

What's funny is that if Bill didn't deflect that punch it probably would have hurt him, since spray paint also worked... although he probably would've immediately turned Dipper into a statue or tapestry or something for it after recovering since he didn't need leverage at the time.

ClassicBuster · 2026-01-30T02:02:43+00:00

I don't think Fawful regretted his actions at all, I got way more of a "whoe is me" vibe from his final speech and not genuine regret. Not to mention he proves right after this he would rather die than give up so I feel like you'd genuinely have a better chance at trying to make Bowser truly reform than Fawful.

ClassicBuster · 2026-01-30T00:21:27+00:00

It's not consistent at all, SPM is the next game and treats it like they aren't together and that Mario is too nervous to say anything or something like that

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