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Snippet from Official Nintendo Magazine:

Bowser wakes up in a forest, where a mysterious stranger offers him a “lucky mushroom”. After eating the mushroom the stranger reveals himself to be Fawful, the sneaky Beanbean Kingdom resident who wants to take over the Mushroom Kingdom. It turns out the mushroom isn’t lucky at all – instead it makes Bowser inhale and swallow everything in sight, shrinking it so it all fits inside his stomach. The mushroom also allows Fawful to brainwash Bowser so, completely under his control, Bowser goes back to the meeting at the Mushroom Kingdom castle and swallows everyone in sight, including Mario, Luigi, Peach and a whole host of Toads. Hence Bowser’s Inside Story – because Mario and Luigi are literally inside his stomach.

As a result of this, the game is split into two different adventures. On the bottom screen you’ve got Mario and Luigi, trapped in the depths of Bowser’s stomach, trying to figure out a way to get out of there and defeat Fawful. Meanwhile, on the top screen, the now-recovered Bowser is also on the hunt for Fawful himself. So sometimes you’ll be controlling Mario and Luigi in the side-scrolling platform-like stomach areas, sometimes you’ll be controlling Bowser on the more traditional top-down RPG areas, and sometimes you’ll be switching between the two to solve puzzles.

Drinking water as Bowser to raise the water level in his stomach and allow Mario and Luigi to get past obstacles, for example. Don’t worry by the way, it’s not all gut-related shenanigans for the plumbing pair. Later in the game they’ll manage to get out of Bowser’s stomach.

Combat on the bottom screen is similar to how it was in the previous Mario & Luigi games, in particular Partners In Time for the DS. All of Mario and Luigi’s actions are controlled using the A and B buttons (A for Mario’s stuff, B for Luigi’s), and you deal out extra damage if you can press the button again just as you make contact with an enemy.

[More at ONM]

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