First of all, the positive points of the game.
– The number of boards is quite varied.
– The music and general atmosphere are more successful and plunge us directly into the magical world of Mario.
– The game itself is the most graphically beautiful and the most visually accomplished.
– A variety of playable characters.
The minuses now:
– The game suffers from the same problem as the previous games, but I find that it’s even worse than before (I personally didn’t think this was possible).
Being last is an advantage. Everything will be offered to you on a platter while the leading players will have to struggle to possess the same thing. Like Mario Kart, being last is absolutely not inevitable, and can even be an advantage. Remember that winning mini-games gets you 10 coins, but a little luck and finishing last place can get you double that. The luck factor has become crucial, an excellent player can easily find himself fourth while the worst of all can become first with great ease.
– The number of mini-games announced in the advertisements (more than 110) is misleading. In reality, in Mario Party mode (on the board) if you do not use a joycon (I mean only one joycon) you have barely more than 30 mini-games alone against everyone, 10 in 2v2, and 10 others in 1v3 . I find that compared to Superstar, we come across the same mini-games too often. The 110 mini-games are all the mini-games from all the game modes in total.
In conclusion, it’s a good Mario Party, but it’s time for them to seriously review their game design methods. If the dice are truncated, and the skill only provides a small additional chance of winning the game, the game really loses interest (unless you play with children, and bad losers at that). The mini-games really seem to have become secondary, which makes this Mario Party more repetitive (and this after only two games for me).
I don’t know what they’re waiting for to listen to the old players, but it’s time to listen to them a little more. Because at this rate, it will end up becoming as unpopular as the Pokémon saga is becoming.
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