Top 10 Reasons Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story is Better Than Dream Team

The Top Ten
1 It has Fawful in it

To be honest Fawful is kinda annoying. Sure he's a clever character who's both funny and evil, but I got annoyed at constantly seeing Fawful-ized enemies in the game. Besides Bowser and Antasma are just as great in Dream Team

Antasma is much better, but if both isn't in the game, it doesn't worsen any game over the ones with them...
Bowser inside story is agreat game, but this point is redicolous

2 It doesn't have one of the absolute worst and cheapest final boss battles of all time (even though the fight itself was still ludicrously easy)

Maybe Dreamy Bowser isn't as good as Dark Bowser and Dark Star, but it's still an amazing fight.

3 Far less obnoxiously gimmicky

I felt the gimmicks were better handled in Dream Team than Bowser's Inside Story (it took 10 seconds to get that light on Bowser in BiS)

4 Much smaller chance of accidentally dying from cheap and annoying status ailments inflicted by enemies

Other way around for me

5 Much more balanced difficulty curve
6 Vastly better-written storyline

Only thing I agree on here. But even then the only thing BiS does better than DT in storyline is that Bowser is the MC and that's it really

7 Soundtrack so good that even Dream Team's is a joke by comparison

Actually, the soundtracks of the first two Mario & Luigi games are so good. But yes, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story also has a very strong soundtrack.

No, that's definitely the other way around.

8 Infinitely funnier dialogue
9 Much lower abundance of enemy attacks that are literally near-impossible to avoid

I thought the enemy attacks were much better in Dream Team. They had more difficulty and satisfaction to avoid

10 Far more precision and skill is required in timing your button presses when attacking

I beg to differ

The Contenders
11 Has a far more epic feel to it (especially in the final boss battle)

An this is what I originally didn't feel in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time's successors just because I truly prefer Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story's predecessors. How pathetic was I back then?

Only in Bowser's Castle and the final battle. With Dream Team, ALL areas feel alive to the max

12 Introduced a lot of the fundamental aspects that later carried over to Dream Team

...and were improved to the max. Seriously the battle agianst Giant Bowser was much better than fighting Peach's Castle of all things

13 It doesn't use the stupid "Princess Peach getting kidnapped" cliche

It always needed more hate. Girls and guys are supposed to be strong! Genders are equal.

14 Badges that don't regenerate ridiculously slowly during combat
15 Some of the area names (Tower of Yikk, Cavi Cape, Plack Beach, Blubble Lake)

Dream Team's locations are puns based on sleep, and I believe they represent their respective areas much better

16 Feels like a legitimately timeless classic as opposed to "just another Mario & Luig game"

Which is how I have (at least originally) felt all Mario & Luigi: Partners in Tiem sequels. - The Ultimate Daredevil

17 The game's main gimmick is far more cleverly done, especially in regard to level design
18 Far less opportunities to completely break the game
19 More characters to play as
20 It isn't ridiculously long just for the sake of being ridiculously long
21 The only Mario game where you get to actually experience the full extent of Bowser's incredible physical strength
22 More creatively designed areas
23 Way better cast of characters
24 Better villains
25 More interesting stuff to do
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