But Nintendo won’t reveal the development team
Nintendo this week announced a brand new Mario & Luigi RPG, officially titled Mario & Luigi: Brothership. Like a lot of the company’s new releases nowadays, it wasn’t ready to reveal the team behind this Switch project, but we’ve now got a small update on this.
Game File’s Stephen Totilo asked a Nintendo rep who the developer of Brothership is now that AlphaDream is out of action, and although they wouldn’t reveal this information, apparently “some of the original developers who worked on the franchise are involved”.
As noted by VGC, some of the team members who stayed on at Nintendo after AlphaDream folded include the company’s former development manager Hiroyuki Kubota (who is now at Monolith Soft), and Mario & Luigi director and producer Yoshihiko Maekawa, who recently supervised the Switch version of Super Mario RPG.
As for when the developer behind the new Mario & Luigi game will be revealed, according to Nintendo’s rep, fans will just have to wait and see “the game credits at release”. There are noticeably plenty of theories already doing the rounds online.
While Nintendo has recently been rather secretive about the developers behind certain projects recently, it doesn’t always go to plan. Earlier this week, official documentation seemingly revealed the Polish company Forever Entertainment is involved in the development of Donkey Kong Country Returns HD for Switch.
Do you think ‘Brothership’ will live up to the standards set by AlphaDream when it arrives later this year? Let us know.
[source gamefile.news]
Liam is a news writer and reviewer for Nintendo Life and Pure Xbox. He’s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of Mario and Master Chief. He’s also got a soft spot for Sonic the Hedgehog.