feels like a fever dream. "games" either last 2 minutes or forever. quests are often way too drawn out or occasionally really confusing. a solid like third of the minigames are weirdly unforgiving. the gaddgets feel weirdly pathetic, like the kind of bootleg toys you give a child you dont really love. mystifying in every sense of the word. just play the ds one if you want an actual good single player mario, this ones more an oddity than anything else.
Mom can you give me money?
To buy ice cream?
Yeeeees, ice cream...
Actually buys a single player party game like a virgin.
To buy ice cream?
Yeeeees, ice cream...
Actually buys a single player party game like a virgin.
This is what I like to call an "afternoon game". Simply put, game you start up and beat in a singular afternoon and don't have any reason to come back to. Because, yeah, I just don't have a reason to come back to it. Is this a bad game like so many have said? Nah, not really. But I'd only really say to play it once just to see what it's all about, then promptly forget about it.
I’m tired of hearing people say this is the worst mario game when it definitely isn’t. I straight up don’t know what y’all were on because this game rocks my world
the pyramid card game sucks
Como juego de Mario Party es... malo, pero como juego de Mario en general o incluso considerándolo un spin-off diferente de Mario Party (el primero en consola portátil) está bastante bien.
Se diferencia del resto de juegos de Mario Party porque no hay tableros multijugador y la mayoría de minijuegos también son de un solo jugador. El juego se basa en un modo campaña por un único tablero grande en el que nuestro personaje (lo elegimos entre solo cuatro, pero lo debemos ir cambiando durante la partida) va avanzando casillas para cumplir misiones con personajes de la saga Super Mario y completando minijuegos. El tono es bastante infantil, los diálogos son lo suficientemente divertidos para que no sea demasiado aburrido y los minijuegos son diversos. Sin embargo, es probablemente en ese aspecto donde más falle. Los minijuegos son fáciles y, al ser de un solo jugador, no están diseñados como en el resto de juegos de la saga.
Al tratarse de una consola portátil, individual, que tenía opción multijugador mediante cable link, pero no estaba tan destinada a este modo como las consolas de sobremesa, el juego hace lo que puede e intenta compensar la falta de multijugador en las partidas con la presencia de algunos minijuegos y gadgets para varios jugadores, pero el resultado no es muy bueno.
En general, la aventura no está mal, aunque algo repetitiva, algunos minijuegos están bien, aunque son distintos al resto de la saga, y la plantilla de personajes es ridícula (SOLO CUATRO). Tiene que gustarte mucho Mario para jugarlo, pero no es un juego que recomendaría.
Jugado en consola Anbernic.
Se diferencia del resto de juegos de Mario Party porque no hay tableros multijugador y la mayoría de minijuegos también son de un solo jugador. El juego se basa en un modo campaña por un único tablero grande en el que nuestro personaje (lo elegimos entre solo cuatro, pero lo debemos ir cambiando durante la partida) va avanzando casillas para cumplir misiones con personajes de la saga Super Mario y completando minijuegos. El tono es bastante infantil, los diálogos son lo suficientemente divertidos para que no sea demasiado aburrido y los minijuegos son diversos. Sin embargo, es probablemente en ese aspecto donde más falle. Los minijuegos son fáciles y, al ser de un solo jugador, no están diseñados como en el resto de juegos de la saga.
Al tratarse de una consola portátil, individual, que tenía opción multijugador mediante cable link, pero no estaba tan destinada a este modo como las consolas de sobremesa, el juego hace lo que puede e intenta compensar la falta de multijugador en las partidas con la presencia de algunos minijuegos y gadgets para varios jugadores, pero el resultado no es muy bueno.
En general, la aventura no está mal, aunque algo repetitiva, algunos minijuegos están bien, aunque son distintos al resto de la saga, y la plantilla de personajes es ridícula (SOLO CUATRO). Tiene que gustarte mucho Mario para jugarlo, pero no es un juego que recomendaría.
Jugado en consola Anbernic.
I never got into the game as much. I bought it along with Mario Party DS at a local game store a few years ago and only ended up playing the mini-games. Some of them are fun, but some aren't. It didn't age as well as some other games in the series.
Cute! This game is basically incomparably different from a core Mario Party title, but it's not bad by any means. Accepting that the Game Boy Advance wasn't powerful enough to make proper 4-player Mario Party work, this is a good compromise - 4 player action through mini-games, single player board game antics. Changing the focus from multiple smaller boards to a single big board in Shroom City lends itself to a lot of fun, particularly with the different recurring NPCs and subplots. I think the mechanic of trying to extend out your play by stockpiling dice is interesting. It's certainly frustrating if you run out partway into resolving a Quest between two different locations, but it's not too difficult to jump back in and keep grinding out the last few where needed. Not a game with a ton of longevity, but not a bad time overall.
And while I never got the chance to play it, it is nice that they tried to strike a compromise with the Bonus Board, at least making SOME way to play a Mario Party board game with 4 friends... even if it's a physical copy (certainly don't see that these days!).
And while I never got the chance to play it, it is nice that they tried to strike a compromise with the Bonus Board, at least making SOME way to play a Mario Party board game with 4 friends... even if it's a physical copy (certainly don't see that these days!).
it has a lot of charm but I don't feel like completing it anytime soon
Going around fulfilling missions for mario characters would be fun if moving through the board wasn't so annoying and some of the missions weren't so bad.
EDIT: Eventually went back and finished it. I guess the game's charm and the actually good minigames won me over despite all the terrible missions of going back and forth through the board, all the minigames that are drawn out and monotone and the fact that the minigames have no variations in the story mode despite having them in the side modes which is almost as baffling as them having almost half the minigame list appear only once through the main mode of the game which makes the repetition drastically worse than it would be otherwise.
EDIT: Eventually went back and finished it. I guess the game's charm and the actually good minigames won me over despite all the terrible missions of going back and forth through the board, all the minigames that are drawn out and monotone and the fact that the minigames have no variations in the story mode despite having them in the side modes which is almost as baffling as them having almost half the minigame list appear only once through the main mode of the game which makes the repetition drastically worse than it would be otherwise.
this is barely a mario party game but it's fun and charming in its own right with some funny and charming characters and questlines and it's satisfying to move around the board trying to get combos on green spaces to get extra rolls. most of the minigames are pretty good too, there are a few bad ones but hey, doesn't every mario party game have some?
conceptually odd (why a portable handheld one-player instalment of a party game series?), nevertheless surprisingly full of life and charm. this game contains some of the funniest writing in the entire mario catalogue, arguably on par with mario & luigi. gorgeous spritework as well. i urge everyone to look past whatever cynicism they have towards it and reconsider
Some of my favorite minigames in the series reside in this strange game, the gameplay on the board is certainly a mixup, and not one that does too great, and besides the minigames, the only other thing that is noteworthy is the gadgets, which are neat little knick knacks, but not reward enough to suffer through beating the singleplayer.
If this is Mario’s party I’m headed home.
This is one of my favorite GBA games to be honest, maybe it's nostalgia talking but tedious as it may be at times this game felt like a strong and cohesive adventure (not what you'd expect out of a Mario Party game)
Doing nice things for your friends: the official video game of the hit motion picture of the same name
I always like a good long John-Hughes-ass wrap up of what all the characters are up to after the game. I hope Flutter finds happiness, if not love, and I can’t believe Dorrie hadn’t heard from Yoshi in a while. And after Yoshi promised him they’d be friends! He promised!
I always like a good long John-Hughes-ass wrap up of what all the characters are up to after the game. I hope Flutter finds happiness, if not love, and I can’t believe Dorrie hadn’t heard from Yoshi in a while. And after Yoshi promised him they’d be friends! He promised!
don't care didn't ask plus you cannot see the pocket, bite-sized fun this humble cartridge contains.
The gameplay is annoying and not very rewarding because the Gaddgets are for the most part play-it-once-and-never-again. The graphics are quite pleasant but other than that there's nothing else to this game. It's alright if you're into masochism I guess.
I love it and there is nothing you can do about it.
Is it a Mario Party game? lol no. Did I still have an incredibly fun time playing this? hell yeah! Considering the fact this game is pretty much entirely singleplayer, the game becomes less about earning coins and stars on boards and more about exploring this large interconnected map going from place to place to play minigames and solve various problems for the NPCs. I vibe with it heavily. Each of the NPCs have their own unique quirks and I remember the wacky quests being a lot of fun. There are also dumb little "gaddgets" that serve no purpose and are just little knick knacks that they put on the GBA, and kid me used the HELL out of those knick knacks. They probably shouldn't have called this a mario party game though because yeah this plays nothing like those games and if you expect that kind of gameplay here it's just gonna be disappointing and confusing. Or maybe people are right and this game actually isn't that good and I'm just super easy to please and like vibes in video games.
Infinitely replayable when you like scoring mini-games, interactive toys and convoluted multi-player options you have to invent group rules with. It is very enjoyable to me and will defenitely return to it because of the value in game design I see in it. I may have originally got my cartridge just to have more Mario Party in my collection, but it became way more. It's its own take on casual party gaming with the little portable GameBoy Advance in mind. When I play it, I get the mindset of a game ruler that plan activities for classmates, his console, pen and paper in hand
I never had friends to play this with, so I mostly just ended up playing the minigames by myself. They were pretty fun for kid me, all in all.
i used to play this with my friend and one day she got really mad when i won a mini game and looked me dead in the eye and asked "why do you enjoy always being better than me" and i started crying
Yep, now I see why people don't like this. It made me reconsider MP8. But the sprites work is very cute.
They made a single-player Mario Party for some unfathomable reason. There are some good minigames in this (and some real stinkers), but overall, it's still not totally clear why this game exists.
this game is a (really good) toybox
good lord never again
This legit might be the worst Mario game. Worst than Hotel Mario.
At least the graphics are good, I just wish they were in an actual Mario Party game instead of whatever this is.
At least the graphics are good, I just wish they were in an actual Mario Party game instead of whatever this is.
not really a mario party game but a very quirky, fun oddity despite that. you travel a single big board and do mini game missions along the way. such a weird game overall that's hard to put into words, i'm genuinely convinced i only hallucinated this game into existence
This is a very unique single player spin on Mario Party, traversing a huge board and solving quest everywhere to unlock more mini games for multiplayer and other single player minigames. All to the lead up to a mini game against Bowser which is pretty nice! Now I will say, the requirement of needing your own copy of the game does suck in order to play everything together but a lot of the duel and single system mini games are fun! That said this is definitely a game you might check out on your spare time when you're just interested enough to try it.