If you’re a fan of this aesthetic, as I am, then this game is a visual delight… and in case you’re wondering, the aesthetic carries through to the menus, as well, which are designed to resemble a village replete with an Option House and a Data House. While the mini-games may be culled from past Mario Party titles, the graphics for each of them have been updated to match the current style for Nintendo’s flagship titles: cartoony characters with hyper-realistic textures and (in some instances) settings. These include options like “Nintendo 64” and “GameCube,” if you want a game fueled purely by nostalgia, as well as a “Family” option that is meant to facilitate an accessible round, suitable for players of any age or experience level (and conversely, there’s also a “Skill” option, for all you hard-core Mario Partiers). The true identity of Jack the Ripper finally revealed?įurthermore, an option at the beginning of the main game mode allows you to select which “variety” of mini-games you’re interested in playing. Plus, each set of mini-games instructions includes the logo for the original Mario Party in which the game appeared, allowing you to easily identify the point of origin for each element included in Superstars. There’s not too much of a problem with this: for one thing, while you may remember having played Bumper Balls in the distant past, with fast-paced mini-games like this, there’s still some degree of novelty (even when you’ve played the particular game before). It’s probably not going to be hugely surprising to you that the mini-games are culled from previous generations of Mario Party, as well. If you have fewer than four human players, CPUs will be used to make up the difference.
After rolling to determine turn order, each of the four players takes turns rolling the dice and traveling around the game board, attempting to gather stars and coins as they do so.
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If you’ve played any game in the Mario Party series before, the gameplay will be familiar, as well. Again, there’s no chance that you won’t realize that these boards came from previous generations of Mario Party: the game includes dialogue that is supplemented with “old photos” of the original games, with the blocky original visuals intact.
The man in the Mario hat went down the green pipe, and the Waluigi followed.įrom there, it’s on to one of five game boards, each of which originated in one of the earliest games. Mario Party Superstars is hyper-aware of the history of the series, and it will make sure that you’re aware, too: the game opens on the warp pipe that started it all back in the first Mario Party game accompanied by dialogue that emphasizes the fact that you may recall the location from the distant past. However, if you’re looking for the most polished version of the game possible, then Mario Party Superstars deserves a place in your game library. If you aren’t a fan of the core series concept, this entry is unlikely to do much to change your mind.
Mario Party Superstars offers the chance to look back (and play through) more than twenty years of Mario Party history.
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