One of the best of the Mario Party's, before the series started to get too played out. Fixes a lot of the jankiness of the first game and doesn't have some of the more bizarre choices that start showing up later. If you are only going to play one Mario Party game, this is a solid candidate.
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You can make this complaint with every Mario Party game ever, but some of the minigames really fucking suck. Anything that's just "can you buttonmash well?" should not be in the game.
The Best Mario Party for the N64!
Probably my favorite Mario Party. Wish I'd had it growing up. I dislike only having one item, but it's important for balancing out their strength.
My first experience with this game was a kiddie ride at the mall which had Cowboy Mario jailed in a van. 4/5.
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Ok, this game was a great game for it’s time and I personally think they did there very best on this game. As usual, it has it’s ups and downs. The downs are that you can only hold one item and that the CPUs can really destroy you even if there just on easy or normal. In the other Mario Party games, I either got second but mostly first against the CPUs, and I don’t know why they were so difficult in this one. But the game is good in total. It has good graphics, boards, mini games, and the costumes I love and think are the best. The costumes, like the pirate outfit, cowboy outfit, spaceship outfit, etc. the mini games, like the one where you pull down one of the colored levers and a giant Bowser head either explodes on you or you survive and go to the end of the line and then the next person goes, that one was good, the one where it’s basically tug of war and either one, two, or three people on one side (that includes yourself and CPUs or yourself and real people) are doing tug of war against a player or CPU In a Bowser suit. And finally, the old classic graphics are great. Overall, this game had it’s ups and downs, as most games do, and was a great game for its time back then.
they call it 2 cuz it’s the 2nd best one
Best set of boards in the series.
Yoshi can wear a cowboy hat.
MUCH better than MP1, minigames are better and much more balance, However it still has it fair share of issues in those department (crane game in particular) and boo taking coins is more of RNG then actually pressing the button. Western, Space, and Horror Land got introduced here which is GREAT. other boards are nothing to write home about or just “Why?”. The controls much tighter. Otherwise Its a good, perhaps great game, but I don’t see the appeal everyone gives it, I didn’t grew up on this game so perhaps i just don’t see it the same way everyone does.
It kickstarted the Mario Party games we have nowadays, but the more I play this one, the less I start to like it.
It kickstarted the Mario Party games we have nowadays, but the more I play this one, the less I start to like it.
Pese a reciclar minijuegos del primer Mario party, agrega varios nuevos, pero como todos los Mario party, existen minijuegos desbalanceados, si bien le dan esa magia de destruye amistades, no hay que negar que muchos de estos suelen tener problemas notorios.
Desde los puñeteros machaca botones que duran mucho y que te dejan sin extremidades o dañar mandos, hasta los minijuegos azarosos donde puedes perder grandes cantidades de dinero. Juegos como el de hacer volar el fly Guy, donde es fácil perder si no compites con otras personas ya que competir contra CPU en niveles de dificultad incluso normal, en muchos juegos al no tener ellos que precionar botones, no se cansan, a diferencia de un ser humano de carne y hueso.
Juegos los cuales no están nivelados en cuanto a quien gana o no, la mayoría de 1 contra 3, o los infames juegos como Day yo de RACE donde apuestas dinero a unos monigotes pero como incluso el turno de elecciones es completamente al azar.
Dejando de lado eso, los mapas de este Mario party son bastante buenos y variados, temáticamente, quisas no tiene esa onda más atmosférica del primer Mario party que se sentía más onírico, entre la música, los trajes y esa secuencia final, los hace bastante memorables, y los minijuegos dejando de lado los cánceres anteriormente mencionados, hay muchos muy divertidos y desafiantes. Aunque me parece un poco molesto el hecho de haber removido los de un solo jugador que había en el primero, pero gracias a Dios que se fueron esas mierdas de rotar el stick, que causaban un daño físico aún mayor que los machaca botones.
Desde los puñeteros machaca botones que duran mucho y que te dejan sin extremidades o dañar mandos, hasta los minijuegos azarosos donde puedes perder grandes cantidades de dinero. Juegos como el de hacer volar el fly Guy, donde es fácil perder si no compites con otras personas ya que competir contra CPU en niveles de dificultad incluso normal, en muchos juegos al no tener ellos que precionar botones, no se cansan, a diferencia de un ser humano de carne y hueso.
Juegos los cuales no están nivelados en cuanto a quien gana o no, la mayoría de 1 contra 3, o los infames juegos como Day yo de RACE donde apuestas dinero a unos monigotes pero como incluso el turno de elecciones es completamente al azar.
Dejando de lado eso, los mapas de este Mario party son bastante buenos y variados, temáticamente, quisas no tiene esa onda más atmosférica del primer Mario party que se sentía más onírico, entre la música, los trajes y esa secuencia final, los hace bastante memorables, y los minijuegos dejando de lado los cánceres anteriormente mencionados, hay muchos muy divertidos y desafiantes. Aunque me parece un poco molesto el hecho de haber removido los de un solo jugador que había en el primero, pero gracias a Dios que se fueron esas mierdas de rotar el stick, que causaban un daño físico aún mayor que los machaca botones.
This is a great time but honestly I don't see it as "the best" in the series personally.
Has some fun mini games, but several are reused from Mario Party 1. Half the maps are great, but the other half are bad. Item were introduced but you can only carry one so there's hardly any room for strategizing.
Mario Party 2 is good but was still at that phase of trying to perfect the formula that Mario Party 3 achieved later on.
Has some fun mini games, but several are reused from Mario Party 1. Half the maps are great, but the other half are bad. Item were introduced but you can only carry one so there's hardly any room for strategizing.
Mario Party 2 is good but was still at that phase of trying to perfect the formula that Mario Party 3 achieved later on.
Oh heck yeah. I am not at all good at Mario Party 2, as is documented in the Tarvould's Quest Mario Party League. But I'm all right with that. So much of the heart of what makes Mario Party good really hits its stride in the second game. Great board design, great mini-games (many of which are salvaged from the first game, true, but they're uniformly improved here), fun item balance, ample opportunity for inter-player politics... I don't know that I'll ever have the patience or interest in becoming good at a Mario Party, but I am very happy to return to this one as a favorite among friends.
Most of my issues with the game come in retrospect: one item allows for less strategy than three items, more interesting items are waiting a little further down the series, more characters are generally more fun, etc. But what's here, especially for its placement in the series, is really damn strong.
Most of my issues with the game come in retrospect: one item allows for less strategy than three items, more interesting items are waiting a little further down the series, more characters are generally more fun, etc. But what's here, especially for its placement in the series, is really damn strong.
I'm pretty sure this was the first Mario game ever translated in italian. Which shocked me since I was sure it was Luigi's Mansion (no, not even the Super Mario Advance until Yoshi's Island).
Anyways: I really like what it tries to do to differentiate itself already by the predecessor.
Have to play it better, but sequels that take some variety are always interesting and deserves to be praised just for that (ofc if it is a good idea, this was definitely is).
Anyways: I really like what it tries to do to differentiate itself already by the predecessor.
Have to play it better, but sequels that take some variety are always interesting and deserves to be praised just for that (ofc if it is a good idea, this was definitely is).
Still a fun time. The bs is at an all time high here
It's Mario Party. Better than 1 I think.
Its incredible how many more entries have come after MP2 and none of them have been able to surpass it in terms of quality. MP2 is the definitive MP experience, bar none. All of its boards are fun to play on, the mini-games are all fun and (mostly) balanced, and even those that aren't are entertaining as hell with friends. Its just a fun game, one that can be played with friends forever, and one of my absolute favorite games of all time.
this game makes me angry but nostalgia and when you play it with friends it funnie
7/10
Didn’t grow up on this one. Playing it now, it’s honestly not very fun. The costumes are cute though!
Massive improvement over it's original. A fun party game with a good balance of strategy and luck. The costumes are cute, the soundtrack is great and it's overall just a really solid game.
fine
I think it's easy to say this is one of the best Mario Party games especially thanks to its boards and minigames, that definitely should be taken as an inspiration for future titles, while obviously still lacking in content because of the N64 power and short time between the first and second title.
The quality compared to the original is noticably better. Items, 2v2 mini games, more type of events in each board, and every character having a unique costume of each board are all amazing additions. I would still rather play newer entries but I can definitely see why this is a beloved classic.
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The cut scenes at the end of each game are literally cinematic ngl
The cut scenes at the end of each game are literally cinematic ngl
CHANCE TIMEEEEWEEEE
meh
the best mario party on the n64 for at least a year
incrível como um único jogo tem a capacidade de destruir todas as tuas relações interpessoais. nenhum grupo de amigos consegue jogar mario party e sair ileso