[dropcap]E[/dropcap]mily Rogers is well-known as an industry insider. She reports on information her sources give her, which has varying reliability just due to the nature of this info. That’s the case we ran into when Emily Rogers and some other insiders insisted that Ubisoft was working on an RPG that would crossover Mario with the Rabbids from the Rayman series. When no reveal appeared for the game, most people forgot about it, assuming it was another dud, but that remains to be seen. Emily Rogers replied to a question on her personal blog giving us just a little more info on the crossover.

Rabbids in all their awful glory.

Question: Can you give us more info on the Rabbids game?

I’ll throw you guys one LAST bone.

“Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle” has eight playable characters — including Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Yoshi — and they each have their own sci-fi weapons, laser guns, arm cannons, etc. But you don’t control the characters — you control Tuttorio, a small floating dish, to guide them through the worlds. There is also co-op multiplayer.

So this actually gives us ample room for speculation. First off, will this be something in the vein of Super Mario RPG? It’s starting to sound like it. Further, who could these other four characters be? Mario RPGs like making Bowser playable, so there’s one, but who else? That could be anyone’s guess.

Another question this gives us is how Tuttorio might work It sounds a bit like we’ll be able to select behavioral patterns for each character, but not give them direct orders, similar in some ways to Miitopia. As per usual, only time will tell how much of this information gets validated. At the very least, Emily isn’t alone. The guys at GameXplain claim to know such a game really does exist, though they won’t go into any further detail beyond what Emily has already said.

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