Help Mario and his friends restore peace to Dream World while racing around all-new game boards and finding new surprises.
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It is bad and boring board design and the way you use the orbs this game really robs takes away from you a lot of options to plan your moves
The minigames are really good tho but for a MP in the gamecube 6 7 are far better options maybe even 4
The minigames are really good tho but for a MP in the gamecube 6 7 are far better options maybe even 4
Mario Party 5, WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?? I THOUGHT WE WERE 4LIFERS!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬 WE PLAYED THE MINI-GAMES TOGETHER, COLLECTED STARS, AND LAUGHED AT BOWSER'S SHENANIGANS TOGETHER, ETC!! 🔪🔪🔪 THIS IS NOT FUNNY!! 👿👿👿👿 Wario steals your coins and you lose W-WAIT, NO MARIO PARTY 5!! I DIDN'T MEAN TO! WAKE UP!! PLEASE!! ⛓️⛓️⛓️⛓️⛓️⛓️⛓️⛓️⛓️👿👿👿👿👿👿🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 NO!!!!! MY PARTY LEVEL FIVE GYAT ONE TWO BUCKLE MY SHOE MARIO STARE MARIO PARTY 5!! NOOOOOOOOO!! IM SO SORRY!!!! WAKE UP, PLEASE!! i-i must go... i hurt my Mario Party 5, the one i swore to play no matter the cost. i'm so sorry Mario Party 5. gamer loves you.
Score: 7/10
Score: 7/10
Has some of the best and worst decisions in the whole series. The random orb mechanic sucks as it takes away a major dimension of strategy that was present in the previous 3 games. That said, the boards are mostly good (above average for the series) and the minigames are generally fun. Bonus points for having the Paper Mario Star Spirits and a tank battle mode that was way better than I expected it to be.
My personal favorite Mario Party. I know the luck-based style of play is not as balanced as say 6 or 7, but I still really enjoy what this game brings in terms of boards and capsules.
Probably the GameCube MP game I feel the most "meh" about. Or at the very least, one that stands out very poorly in my mind having not played them all recently. I'm sure its minigame selection is fine & I remember the dream motif for the boards being way more interesting than MP4. This & MP6 are just perfectly fine, I'd say. Fun to revisit but not often the ones friends & I would gravitate toward if given the choice.
In my opinion, the weakest of the GCN Mario Parties. The orb system is poorly thought out, the minigames are a very mixed bag, the boards are fine but not great, and on top of that I just think it's really ugly. Everything has this "plastic toy" look to it that makes me long for the sweet release of 7th-gen brown shooter graphics.
They got the Star Spirits, though. That's pretty cool.
They got the Star Spirits, though. That's pretty cool.