There weren’t any fun twists or really any new ideas to make those old mini games a bit more interesting. I don’t have a problem with many of them being derived from older mini games – they were favorites for a reason – but the way each minigame was executed was disappointing.

I couldn’t personally put my finger on it fully, however, I think this feeling of ‘off-ness’ can be ascribed to the lack of diversity between all of them. Realistically, this title still capped out at 75 mini games, about par for the course given the last few MP’s, though there was something different about these. This is especially evident because in Mario Party games, it is almost the standard to have a ton of fun mini games. There clearly wasn’t a lot of love and care that went into the designs of the boards, minigames, or game progression that really show when compared to other Mario Party games. Party in the Mushroom KingdomĪlthough the formula stays much the same as in the first 9 installments, Mario Party 10 missed a lot of marks specifically for that reason. Mario Party 10, a relatively recent installment, still had some of the charm of its predecessors, though it certainly wasn’t has beloved as they were for some good reasons. In fact, its done so well that multiple games have copied its formula, specifically Pummel Party and Cards of Chaos come to mind.

That’s what made the game so special to anyone that grew up with a Nintendo 64 or even played some of the later titles: it’s a magical combination that just works well for creating chaos among your friends. However, when it came out, video games were either ‘ports’ of a board game OR a video game, not really both. Sure, it was less an entirely new genre and more an amalgamation of a board/strategy game crossed with the various mini game styles. The Mario Party series is one that, when it was originally released, was unlike any other video game.

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