I never grew up with the Nintendo 64 Mario Party's but I was still very interested in Mario Party Superstars because hey, new Mario Party means a new chance for my siblings and I to bond over wanting to destroy each other.

This game feels incredibly back to basics for Mario Party in a good way. It's just Mario Party again and frankly that's all it needs to be. No cars, no gimmicks, its just Mario Party with some classic boards returning and 100 of the fan favorite minigames from across the series. If you like Mario Party you'll probably like this game. I'm not quite sure what to say about this if I'm being honest, it's Mario Party you know what it is and if you'll like it. So I'm going to just talk about the boards I liked and share some funny stories of playing this with my siblings while I was visiting home for Thanksgiving.

After playing all five boards I have to say I had a lot of fun with most of them except for Yoshi's tropical island, which felt incredibly basic and kind of boring compared to the others. Horrorland is probably my favorite because it has a lot going on and has the most chances for things to suddenly change for a player, followed by space land because I have a special place in my heart over that board considering how much I made my family hate playing this game with me over it, and then Peach's Birthday Cake and Woody Woods both being just kinda average.

On our first game in Spaceland I accidentally got us all sent back incredibly far on the board multiple times using the thowmp car chase and the police shyguys multiple times in a row much to the anger of all of my siblings, to the point where they all tried to team up on me to make sure I lost after the third time everyone got moved back about 15 spaces because of me. It worked and I ended that game in last place with zero stars and around ten coins.

At one point when we were playing on Horrorland our Mother joined so one of my brothers and I took turns on one controller playing as Donkey Kong, and after the first half of the game where we had no stars and no money we somehow turned everything around in the last ten turns and ended the game with three stars more than everyone else thank to bonus stars and abusing the random warp item. We also would take turns playing the DK rap off our phones whenever the other was up doing a minigame much to everyone's annoyance.

Overall Mario Party Superstars is a fun game, it's Mario Party through and through and I can't really give it better praise than that.

8/10

Reviewed on Nov 27, 2021


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