Super Mario Party

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Mixed or average reviews- based on 653 Ratings

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  1. Rippedupreaper
    Feb 2, 2023
    0
    I have never played this game but I assume it is not good without even looking at it on doig Doug also I'm still at school and would like someone to come and shoot me **** **** **** **** ******** FUXK **** **** SHOOT ME Your not welcome for my time
  2. DynaHimself
    Sep 24, 2022
    1
    Il n'y a pas de rang S, le maximum étant le rang A lors des épreuves, trash game, dont buy(fr)
  3. lilnami
    Jul 24, 2022
    0
    hey made stars only cost 10 coins. Presumably to scale with the smaller boards and more restrictive max turns. But the deflation in star value cascades through the rest of the game.

    It is an extremely rare scenario that you wont have 10 coins at any point during the game. You'll almost never be in a scenario where you make it to a star and can't afford one. This in turn makes    hey made stars only cost 10 coins. Presumably to scale with the smaller boards and more restrictive max turns. But the deflation in star value cascades through the rest of the game.

    It is an extremely rare scenario that you wont have 10 coins at any point during the game. You'll almost never be in a scenario where you make it to a star and can't afford one.

    This in turn makes minigames trivial. Since the value of a coin is next to nothing now, the importance of actually winning minigames to earn coins plummets. The main appeal of Mario party now has little to no relevance to the board game.

    In previous installations of the series the game required a combination of minigame prowess, coin management, and a little bit of luck. Now the game requires little more than praying to RNGesus so you can stamepede around collecting as many stars as you can; limited by nothing more than your ability to roll high numbers. Previously this wasn't a viable strategy because you needed to ensure you had 20 coins before passing over a star.

    Example, after coming in 3rd place in the first mini-game, I bought a star on turn 2. In another game on turn 5, after losing every single mini-game, and rolling 1s. I used items and rolled a 15. I earned 3 stars in a single turn, buying 2 stars in one turn, and getting one from a hidden block. Boards are tiny and there are no interesting tiles to land on. All the usable items are lackluster. Mini-games are solid however.

    Normally buying two stars in a single turn would require some form of achievement. This is not the case in Super Mario Party. As far as I'm concerned this game is just the participation trophy of the franchise.    … Expand
  4. Giulinho99
    Apr 7, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Il gioco più confusionario ed illogico della saga, mappe piccole e brutte. Minigiochi non divertenti e modalità stranissime che funzionano senza seguire una logica, che era presente nei vecchi capitoli. E' di gran lunga il peggior titolo della saga… Expand
  5. Spidgeon
    Jan 7, 2022
    2
    What's that? You have a few friends over and want to play some Mario Party? Well I hope you like two player only because the game doesn't support any other controller apart from Joycons. What a load of ****
  6. JRice
    Dec 26, 2021
    0
    You can NOT play the game with pro controllers???
    We did buy two of them, just to be able to play with 4 players, and now cannot, but would have to buy two more useless joycons???

    Thats it, Nintendo, im fed up with you, totally and finally...
  7. CoolingManatee
    Nov 1, 2021
    2
    Not enough maps you only get four that are recycled to make it seem like eight. There's mainly a bunch of mini games. Somehow this went from a Mario board game to a Mario themed mini game. It sucks its nothing like they used to be. I'll never buy another Mario party again
  8. Vigo
    Oct 13, 2021
    4
    This game was not a good game. Pre release had hyped this up as a more return to the original formula i.e. no cars (didn't even bother playing those) but couldn't have been further from the truth. This turned out to be a a major disappointment for various reasons as many other people have noted in reviews.

    - There's only 4 boards. These 4 boards can barely be considered boards as they    This game was not a good game. Pre release had hyped this up as a more return to the original formula i.e. no cars (didn't even bother playing those) but couldn't have been further from the truth. This turned out to be a a major disappointment for various reasons as many other people have noted in reviews.

    - There's only 4 boards. These 4 boards can barely be considered boards as they have a small grid like structure. It's almost as they tried doing some kind of grid like formula, scratched it, and said well heres 4 let's make it work. They are painfully pathetic, aesthetically and playability.

    -Economy is bad. Stars are now 10 coins reduced from 20 of the original. Everyone gets coins from mini games also.

    -Golden warp pipe is broke. This ties in with last point but a golden pipe is 10 coins which can be farmed to buy over and over and then buy 10 coin star. Don't remember much of the other items but not good.

    -Dice block only goes to 6. No idea why they would change this but I'm sure it has to do with tiny boards for making this decision.

    -Ally characters also impede flow of game. If someone gets one, two, three or even four, (don't know how many you can get) they are able to lap the entire board it makes no sense. Now had they done it where you get an ally and can use their special dice ability, that would have been fine as that idea is the only decent new addition to the game. But it doesn't work that way they roll extra dice on the turn allowing for more travel on the tiny maps with broken economy.

    -Online support was a joke. This made it sound like, and I'm sure most people agree, that online meant you could play the maps online with others. Not the case of-course. You're allowed to compete in FIVE mini games online to see who wins.

    - And my least favorite I saved for last, motion controls & Joy Con. This is the worst aspect in that you cannot use the pro controller or even two joy cons. You have to use one joy con but it gets worse...there's motion control. I hated that about the Wii (least favorite NINTENDO console ever) but now you have to give high fives and other motion BS. Don't get me started on the motion control specific modes I'm sure as F*** not getting up pretending I'm in a marching band.

    And there you have it for reasons that ruin the game. But why 4 /10? Well, realistically I'm sure some kids and people out there will enjoy so even though I overall don't like it, I can see where some may enjoy it. Especially kids who never played originals. As an adult who grew up on the originals and probably too old for my age to be playing Mario party (F*** it) there's bound to be some young kids or dumb adults who will enjoy it. I, however, would not recommend this Mario Party.    … Expand
  9. slothjaw
    Oct 11, 2021
    3
    This game COULD be decent. But there's a dealbreaker for me. The AI turns are sooooo agonizingly slow. It seems like it takes forever to get through their turns. All the dialogue, the slow animations. It really drags the pace of the game down to where I'm staring at my phone more than playing the game. It's that bad.
    Beyond that there's the typical arbitrary Mario Party stuff that I    This game COULD be decent. But there's a dealbreaker for me. The AI turns are sooooo agonizingly slow. It seems like it takes forever to get through their turns. All the dialogue, the slow animations. It really drags the pace of the game down to where I'm staring at my phone more than playing the game. It's that bad.
    Beyond that there's the typical arbitrary Mario Party stuff that I always hate but this one seems worse somehow.    … Expand
  10. ChillCat
    Aug 13, 2021
    4
    Super Mario Party attempts to bring Mario Party back to it roots; or at least that is what NdCube tried to do. If anything, Super Mario Party is more like Diet Mario Party, it has a plethora of issues that you can look up on your own, or you'll immediately notice if you're a veteran Mario Party fan.

    If you're looking to buy Super Mario Party, I wouldn't recommend it, and instead    Super Mario Party attempts to bring Mario Party back to it roots; or at least that is what NdCube tried to do. If anything, Super Mario Party is more like Diet Mario Party, it has a plethora of issues that you can look up on your own, or you'll immediately notice if you're a veteran Mario Party fan.

    If you're looking to buy Super Mario Party, I wouldn't recommend it, and instead purchase the upcoming (as of writing this review) Mario Party Superstars, that'll ACTUALLY bring the game back to its roots.

    TLDR; Super Mario Party is bad.    … Expand
  11. iTheAlchemist
    Jun 20, 2021
    0
    It's a party game meant to play with your friends but nintendo limits the controllers to joy-con only, which means that even if you have a couple controllers that are not joy-con your friends wont play. Not to mention the forgotten online play.
  12. Elboam
    Jun 20, 2021
    0
    Le falta muchísimo para ser un buen Mario Party. Pocos mapas, muy planos y sin grandes cambios. Minijuegos aburridisimos y simples. En general un Mario Party que parece hecho deprisa y sin ganas de cumplir.
  13. Clownpenis
    Apr 6, 2021
    0
    Trash. Absolute trash. Spend your money on literally anything else. I once spent half as much money as the cost of this game on a bottle of tequila that tasted awful and gave me heartburn, and it was still a better purchase than this travesty.
  14. Breyon27
    Mar 30, 2021
    0
    This game is trash, Nintendo slapped some stuff together and sold it. I emailed them for my money back lol, it's that bad

    No skill involved and everybody wins from minigames. It's as if Nintendo games are made for 3 year olds now
  15. MrSanchez
    Jan 5, 2021
    3
    It's empty, void of personality, and sterile. There's only four boards, but every one of them plays exactly the same. The mini games are forgettable, and lack variety. Dice mechanics are annoying, and the group clap gimmick is cringy. Mario Party 9 and 10 both had absolutely gross mechanics but at least had character andd personality. Also, the other modes are fine, but get old prettyIt's empty, void of personality, and sterile. There's only four boards, but every one of them plays exactly the same. The mini games are forgettable, and lack variety. Dice mechanics are annoying, and the group clap gimmick is cringy. Mario Party 9 and 10 both had absolutely gross mechanics but at least had character andd personality. Also, the other modes are fine, but get old pretty quickly. This is by far the worst Mario Party to date. NDcube shows no idea of the direction the franchise is going, and at this point I don't care if they want to change the formula or stick to the original one, but for the love of god, they NEED to commit to a direction instead of delivering this half assed attempt at OG Mario Party.

    Only redeeming qualities are the graphics quality, and the potential fun the side modes can provide during the first times you play them.    … Expand
  16. Chell_R
    Nov 23, 2020
    0
    The 2ND, WORST Mario Party... Ever.

    Bad mini games, terrible boards... Cheaper feeling, cheaper presentation...

    Worser game. all around.

    Play Mario Party 8, 6, or... preferably 4....

    It's WAYYYYY more worth your time,

    and money.
  17. TitaniumDragon
    Sep 26, 2020
    4
    Super Mario Party is a party game – a digital board game that is also a collection of minigames, as well as a few other modes that are also, in effect, collections of minigames, such as the cooperative River Race as well as the Sound Stage area, which is a party rhythm game.

    The board game is the “heart” of Super Mario Party, and here, there are actually two closely related board games.    Super Mario Party is a party game – a digital board game that is also a collection of minigames, as well as a few other modes that are also, in effect, collections of minigames, such as the cooperative River Race as well as the Sound Stage area, which is a party rhythm game.

    The board game is the “heart” of Super Mario Party, and here, there are actually two closely related board games. The objective of each game is to collect stars, but there are two ways to play – as single players, and two teams of two. The individual player mode has you moving around a fairly linear board with a few branching paths, while the team mode has you moving around on a rectangular board with various features interrupting the flow through the board. In either case, your goal is to get enough coins and then to land on the star space, which allows you to buy a star, which then causes the star to move afterwards to a new location.

    This mode is chaotic but reasonably okay. There’s some strategy involved – each character has special dice, which can be rolled instead of a normal six-sided die, with various dice giving less random results or more extreme results (Bowser, for example, has a die with 0, 0, 1, 8, 9, and 10 on it, while Shy Guy has 0, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4), but as the rolls are random, there’s only so much control you have over where you land. Various spaces have various effects, and while you can control what area of the board you’re aiming for, you have no guarantee of actually landing on critical spaces. The team game gives you a bit more control, as the players roll dice and have them added together to determine the team’s movement, and the board gives you more control over where you’re going. There are allies around the board (player characters who you aren’t playing as), which can give you additional movement as well as access to their dice. The team mode gives you more control over getting these, but both modes give you at least some access to them.

    The minigames are ultimately at the heart of the game, and are where players make most of their coins. Some of these have the players competing against each other as individuals, while others have them paired randomly into teams (sometimes with your allied characters following you around a well!). These games are much more skill-based, which is both a good thing (more skilled players have an advantage) and a bad thing (it’s entirely possible for better players to literally never lose at the minigames).

    All in all, this is an okay game, but it’s nothing particularly special; I wouldn’t play it very much, and it isn’t worth the asking price of $60.

    The Sound Stage mode is a pretty generic rhythm game with Mario theming, which is cute enough, but very limited in scope.

    The River Cruise mode has you paddling a raft down a river as a team while completing a series of team minigames against the clock to try and get more time. This mode is actually really easy, so while it is kind of nice to cooperate as a group, you’re going to succeed every time, which means that repeated trips can get boring after a while, especially as there isn’t all that much variety in what the actual river trip brings.

    Finally, there’s Challenge Road, where you play through all 80 minigames back to back to try and get to the end of it. You can quit whenever you want and come back to it, but it is still nothing particularly exciting or special.

    All in all, Super Mario Party is what it is – a mediocre party game. It is chaotic enough to create some potentially interesting moments, but ironically, the minigames may be *too* skill based, making it less random and thus making me wonder whether it’d be better to just play a game like Super Smash Bros. or Super Mario Kart, which are more fun as actual *games*.

    If you can rent this from the local library for some short term dumb fun, that’s not a bad choice, but I can’t really say this would be worth buying – if you play it much at all on your own, you’ll get too good at the minigames to really be able to play it as a fun party game. The game itself is rather repetitive, so it isn’t something you want to play a ton of, and after about 17 hours or so, you’ll have seen literally everything the game has to offer many times over.    … Expand
  18. PortalKid
    Sep 20, 2020
    0
    The reason that I'm giving this game a 0 is that I've never seen a boardgame that solely depends on such skill (because of the minigames). The game itself revolves around coins. And the minigames are the game changer. Also the cpu's are the worst teammates in group based minigames, the cpu's programming is awful.
  19. Doyboi
    Jun 18, 2020
    1
    The games are fun but they seriously destroyed the mario party franchise with the beyond terrible selection of maps. Only 4 maps and they are all just variations of a boring square
  20. AngryEnough
    May 9, 2020
    2
    I just discovered last night, after having dropped a second $60 for a copy for my mom who lives 2500 miles away, that the online multi-player is basically nonexistent. Thanks for taking an otherwise wonderful family game and making a mockery of online gaming capabilities. I figured I could spend some quality time with my mom, play a 15 turn game like we're sharing a living room, you know?I just discovered last night, after having dropped a second $60 for a copy for my mom who lives 2500 miles away, that the online multi-player is basically nonexistent. Thanks for taking an otherwise wonderful family game and making a mockery of online gaming capabilities. I figured I could spend some quality time with my mom, play a 15 turn game like we're sharing a living room, you know? I mean, the technology we have is more than capable. But no. Thanks for making me question every reasonable assumption I've ever made. Congratulations, you sold me a car with one wheel.… Expand
  21. CDRMac
    May 8, 2020
    4
    THREE reasons for the low score: Lack of boards, embarrassingly limited multiplayer, poorly balanced gameplay.

    1. There are ONLY FOUR BOARDS! I remember playing Mario Party games on Game Cube that had way more variety. That was a decade ago. Given the advancement in technology, there should be MORE boards, not less. 2. You can't play boards online. Not even with your friends in a    THREE reasons for the low score: Lack of boards, embarrassingly limited multiplayer, poorly balanced gameplay.

    1. There are ONLY FOUR BOARDS! I remember playing Mario Party games on Game Cube that had way more variety. That was a decade ago. Given the advancement in technology, there should be MORE boards, not less.

    2. You can't play boards online. Not even with your friends in a private match. Instead you are forced to play a small set of mini-games, over and over again. I bought a Nintendo Online Subscription specifically for this game when it came out. I cancelled it after a month.

    3. So many features in this game just seem poorly balanced. Numerous items are completely useless to buy, while others are over-powered. Stars are waaay too cheap. After only a couple turns, there isn't even a risk of not being able to afford one. The random mini-game wheel seems to heavily favour playing the same games over-and-over again. Certain characters' dice are just awful compared to others.

    I can't believe Nintendo is still selling this lackluster game for full price. It's been out for almost two years, and despite many complaints, they haven't updated it at all.    … Expand
  22. surajdave
    Apr 23, 2020
    1
    New to metacritic but want to vent my frustration with this game. I spent 60 dollars on this recently and as someone who grew up playing some great Mario party games in the past this new one for is a joke. I bought this thinking its be great but its a slap in the face. You only get four uncreative maps, the minigame system repeats all the same games and you cant even play online properly.New to metacritic but want to vent my frustration with this game. I spent 60 dollars on this recently and as someone who grew up playing some great Mario party games in the past this new one for is a joke. I bought this thinking its be great but its a slap in the face. You only get four uncreative maps, the minigame system repeats all the same games and you cant even play online properly. Online play is only a fraction of the minigames and you don't get even get to play on the board. This could've been a great game. I doubt it will happen but I wont change this review until its fixed. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY… Expand
  23. JonBrunone
    Apr 4, 2020
    0
    It’s awful. They took all of the bad elements of the Mario party games and put it into this one. The computer is very hard even on the lowest difficulty. I wouldn’t recommend
  24. chazzout
    Mar 23, 2020
    2
    Don't understand the hype, noticeably a step down from early titles, only 4 boards, doesn't explain the rules in VS battles, and stars are so cheap that it often becomes a game of who gets the best roll early on. Not really fun except for a few mini-games, definitely not worth 80CAD.
  25. MistahJuicyBoy
    Mar 8, 2020
    0
    Contains the least amount of content of any Mario party game and has never been updated. 4 boards, 84 shallow minigames (some are locked to side-game modes), and lack of controller support, or even decent online multiplayer makes this game dead in the water. Play the n64 or GameCube games if you are feeling that Mario party itch. This game will never be updated, and it's very likely youContains the least amount of content of any Mario party game and has never been updated. 4 boards, 84 shallow minigames (some are locked to side-game modes), and lack of controller support, or even decent online multiplayer makes this game dead in the water. Play the n64 or GameCube games if you are feeling that Mario party itch. This game will never be updated, and it's very likely you will play it for less than 5 hours.

    The 0 is an honest score. If you look at my history, you'll find that I rarely ever give it, but this game is deserving. Makes Warcraft 3 reforged look like a masterpiece.    … Expand
  26. tomamazing
    Jan 24, 2020
    3
    Hope you like repetitive bs, on the fewest boards in the series, in a game that has received no updates or support! It's super!
  27. Jarcher1192
    Jan 17, 2020
    0
    It doesn't matter how well you play everything is left to chance and I have the worst luck.... This game is stressful for no good reason -10/10
  28. leandroluzrn
    Nov 8, 2019
    3
    A lot of potential, poorly executed. Too little content, small boards and few game modes.
  29. Alexlipsius
    Oct 16, 2019
    1
    at first the game seems great, but after 4 hours of gameplay you find out you have played all the boards. Nintendo is never going to make new dlc's - they have gotten greedy like with Mario kart Tour, and the games will show.... unfortunately.
  30. Juroslaw
    Sep 21, 2019
    0
    Like seriously, its been almost a year, and they added nothing into this unfinished game, like seriously? There is only 4 tiny maps, and you dont have any options to customize your game
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  1. Positive: 58 out of 84
  2. Mixed: 26 out of 84
  3. Negative: 0 out of 84
  1. PLAY! Zine
    Mar 6, 2019
    80
    Super Mario Party goes back to its roots and delivers just like it should. The vast number of different modes, really prevents any to shine the brightest, but the entire game is a small step back that greatly leaps forward. It makes us only more excited for the next entry. Something we haven't felt with the Mario Party series in ages...
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  2. CD-Action
    Feb 13, 2019
    85
    Both players and critics agreed that in the last couple of years Mario Party’s quality has been dropping. Nintendo decided to go for broke this time and I hope slapping “Super” in front of the title heralds the restart of the franchise, because SMP finally delivers what we expected. [12/2018, p.51]
  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Dec 21, 2018
    77
    Complex and unpredictable board game, numerous mini-games and being able to play as your favorite character – those are the three pillars of Mario Party’s success. Neither of these elements was polished to perfection over the years, but together they offer a very enjoyable experience. [Issue#234, p.72]
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