All-around improvement of MP1, with some nice additions thrown in. I like the board-specific outfits everyone wears and the endgame cutscenes with the 1st place person. Decent selection of minigames and they brought back the good ones as well. I do miss the MP1 jank though and item minigames are boring and time-consuming.
it's mario party. but again. make sure you bring some other people with you if you want to tackle all this game has to offer; theres no dedicated single player campaign, and doing regular mario party rounds by yourself is really sad and lonely. other than that, this is pretty much mario party 1 again, except with a lot less chance time and palm blisters. If you like physical pain, I think mario party 1 is a better pick than this, but honestly both this and the first are equally worth checking out.