Mario party with online features was long overdue. This game has a nice variety of boards, a nice variety of minigames and is surprisingly polished. I do hope that it continues to get some more regular updates/dlc and it could truly be the best mario party experience. I think it certainly can stand on it's own amongst the classic mario parties. But i don't feel any super compelling reason to want to play it over another mario party, aside from the fact that it's actually on a modern system with functioning online.