This Mario Party is a mixed bag of things. I like the birthday theme (especially with the presents in story mode), the minigames are some of the best in the series with all time greats like Booksquirm and Dungeon Duos, I love how battle minigames work in the game with letting the person who landed on it to choose between 2 minigames, custom Minigame selection is really awesome and should come back, and last 5 turns has a chance to be a lot more chaotic which I like! That being said I don’t like how reversal of fortune (chance time) defaults to swap coins so often, the item system isn’t great, and most importantly: the board selection isn’t good overall. The standout board of this pack is probably Shy Guys Jungle Jam with has a cool gimick but is pretty standard overall but the boards overall aren’t great such as to Toads Midway Madness which I hate with a burning passion and isn’t even the worst board in this game. The game is good overall and I don’t mind going back to it, but the gameplay has glaring flaws.