![]() ![]() It’s not just that the game is polished and shiny, it’s that the team made a point to do a comparison before the start of each board. Speaking of old to new, I can’t stress enough how pretty Mario Party Superstars looks. You don’t get that as much here, not even an inclusion of some of the old microphone games from the Gamecube era.Īnd yet, with all these choices, we’re still just watching reruns of The Office. ![]() Super Mario Party, for all its faults, was able to utilize the Joycon’s unique properties (gyroscope and such) to make some really fun and engaging minigames. In fact, when you can peel off the veneer of nostalgia and excitement, you realize that a lot of the games, coming straight from the N64 and Gamecube era, are excessively simple and straightforward. Once you have the timing down, it’s not much of an engaging activity. Or pushing the A button at just the right time to pick up a cake on a conveyor belt, then pushing A to put it back down. That works great with school kids in the classroom, and significantly less so with players holding controllers. The 1v3 game where players all need to look in different directions. However, there are older games that weren’t great before and sincerely aren’t great now. This is an element players should consider when they jump into this foray.įor example, some minigames have aged very well in Mario Party Superstars, with things like Pokey Pummel, Soccer Shootout and the crowd pleasing Bumper Balls still being top notch and looking even better nowadays. Obviously, a lot of this is going to be opinionated: I didn’t like Super Mario Party, so to compare something as being “better” is based off of me having played every damn Mario Party game to date. The graphics are still top notch, but now there’s a much wider variety of mini games, primarily because Nintendo is pulling from a massive library of existing activities that were tried and true in the form of fans replaying them, voting for them, and even validating them with the Mario Party: The Top 100 release for the 3DS a while back.Īlso, there’s better stop and start options: if you walk away from a game because, you know, you have a life, as long as everyone is on board it’s easy to come back and continue. The number of boards is higher, and also the board design is stronger: there’s less of a “random” feeling to things, like what existed so strongly with the King Bob-Omb board. The online matchmaking is tight and secure, with plenty of people waiting to play most of the time. Toad did eight years at Stanford to explain this to you.įor those whose first foray into Mario Party was Super Mario Party, everything about Mario Party Superstars is a massive leap forward. In order to get more coins, you can pick them up from lucky events and stopping on blue spaces, but they mostly come from competitive minigames at the end of each turn, where anyone/everyone can win, depending on the conditions. It seems simple enough, but remember that Nintendo completely botched that for Mario Party 9 and 10, so don’t roll your eyes at this breakdown. Whomever has the most number of stars at the end of a set amount of turns wins. Up to four players (local or online! ) can join together to navigate a fun and colorful board in order to save coins to buy stars. It’s a Frankenstein’s monster of glorious proportions: you have boards from the Nintendo 64 games, mini games from nearly every iteration, and graphics that are distinctly on par with the best of in-house development on the Switch. Mario Party Superstars is a carefully crafted stew that is created from the bones and meat of the Mario Party titles that are not easily accessible to current gen players. But this excellent release is another example of the monkey’s paw that is Nintendo: we get what we want, but at what cost? Now, after an arguably rough start with Super Mario Party, the Nintendo Switch has a worthy installment to call its own. Mario Party was the 1998 spectacle that left everyone wondering: how can I ruin my friendship without actually putting in any effort? It was the launch of a series that, for many people, would go through peaks and valleys, extreme highs ( Mario Party 6 ) and embarrassing lows ( Mario Party Advance or The Top 100 ) but always keep the faith in having fun with the players. ![]() There’s been kart racing, basketball, tennis, and, most notably, party games. For over two decades, Nintendo has brought forward the insane notion that their iconic characters would come together in a variety of scenarios that aren’t simply battles of good vs. ![]()
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