Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope Bowser Gameplay Breakdown

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Ubisoft's 2017 E3 press conference was home to many announcements, and while most were fairly run-of-the-mill affairs, one game stood out massively. With Ubisoft's Davide Soliani taking the stage alongside Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto, the two announced Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, a turn-based tactics game joining the two franchises together. While the game had leaked a while ago, seeing both publishers join forces with the iconic image of Miyamoto wielding one of the game's blasters quickly spread across the internet, and the game grabbed a lot of attention. Flash forward five years and a sequel called Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope is heading to the Nintendo Switch.

Though it was announced a year ago at E3 2021, Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope has only had a handful of trailers released so far. The vast majority of footage for the game has come from Nintendo's June Direct, where a cinematic trailer was shown, which was followed by a seven-minute deep-dive into the game's new mechanics. One of the biggest reveals of the cinematic trailer was that Bowser was joining the playable roster this time round, and now thanks to the gameplay deep-dive, fans have a better idea of just how he'll play in the sequel.

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The first Mario + Rabbids game followed the conventions of the turn-based tactics genre pretty closely. The game used a grid-based movement system, whereby players could move their heroes a certain number of tiles per turn and could use a set number of actions before or after moving. Once all the player's characters had moved, attacked, and used any special abilities, it was the AI opponent's turn, where they'd use the same conventional turn-based tactics rules.

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