GGN writes "Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story is the third game in the M&L series, and the second to grace the Nintendo DS. The franchise is seen by many as the spiritual successor to the stellar SNES RPG title created by Nintendo and (then) Squaresoft, Super Mario RPG: Legends of the Seven Stars. Others see it as the portable extension to the hilarious Paper Mario series that started on Nintendo 64, then progressed to the GameCube and now the Wii. The reason the three franchises – as I see them – are so often bunched together is because they are all well written, witty RPG titles that feature the plumber(s) getting into odd predicaments, with matching solutions."