"The return of good Mario Party's" as many say and praise it for. It's kinda weird though that when literally all they had to do was recreate the old magic they still put in the bare minimum. I mean...5 boards? That's less than 1 N64 games worth of boards. Also, and this may be an unpopular opinion, but the N64 boards were kinda meh in comparison to Mario Party's 5-7. Like they function fine, but those boards just have so much more depth to them.
10 characters? Come on now. Even 100 minigames, which technically is a fair amount for a MP game, feels lacking as hell when they didn't even need to come up with any new ideas. And the games they picked aren't even that well curated! You have 10 games worth of minigames to pick from and you still pick stinkers like Pirahna's pursuit, or minigames that are basically identical to each other? How do you fuck up that badly when ALL you had to do was make a "best of" compilation. Just ask the fans which boards and games they wanted.
There's also supposedly some changes made to the boards to make them "easier", but truth be told my knowledge of N64 Mario Party's is kinda limited, so I dunno how much they affected them.
Of course THE reason this game basically is worth anything at all is that it's the first time in Mario Party's history that it has had a (competent) online mode. And yeah, the online works amazing in this game. I've played multiple games with randoms with very little problems. The stickers even provide a really fun way to communicate without voice chat.
I do also like the customisable player cards, and the stats you can view, like your minigame win percentage and what everyone's favourite boards are.
So yeah, it's a game that literally is "good" because of one simple element - the fact this is classic Mario Party online. It's just frustrating that they came so close to such a winning formula, and didn't even need to think up new ideas to make it work, and still settled for good enough. It could have been the definitive Mario Party, but as it stands, it's only the best way to play Mario Party online. If you still wanna play with friends irl, then basically any of the first 7 are better.
10 characters? Come on now. Even 100 minigames, which technically is a fair amount for a MP game, feels lacking as hell when they didn't even need to come up with any new ideas. And the games they picked aren't even that well curated! You have 10 games worth of minigames to pick from and you still pick stinkers like Pirahna's pursuit, or minigames that are basically identical to each other? How do you fuck up that badly when ALL you had to do was make a "best of" compilation. Just ask the fans which boards and games they wanted.
There's also supposedly some changes made to the boards to make them "easier", but truth be told my knowledge of N64 Mario Party's is kinda limited, so I dunno how much they affected them.
Of course THE reason this game basically is worth anything at all is that it's the first time in Mario Party's history that it has had a (competent) online mode. And yeah, the online works amazing in this game. I've played multiple games with randoms with very little problems. The stickers even provide a really fun way to communicate without voice chat.
I do also like the customisable player cards, and the stats you can view, like your minigame win percentage and what everyone's favourite boards are.
So yeah, it's a game that literally is "good" because of one simple element - the fact this is classic Mario Party online. It's just frustrating that they came so close to such a winning formula, and didn't even need to think up new ideas to make it work, and still settled for good enough. It could have been the definitive Mario Party, but as it stands, it's only the best way to play Mario Party online. If you still wanna play with friends irl, then basically any of the first 7 are better.