My day was ruined and my disappointment was immeasurable. I still 100%ed it, because the game had very little content. On the plus, I commend it for having a full length download-play, which let me play it with friends; not many games had DL play to that extent (only notable other one that comes to mind is Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon)
Taking a page from the mostly unknown Namco crossover game Pac-Man Fever, Island Tour's boards are linear. It's not great, the change to linear boards lessens the variety but the minigames and side modes are somewhat fun. The main flaw is the fact it's stuck on 3ds which makes playing multiplayer more difficult probably the best 3DS Mario Party though.
Maybe it's just nostalgia clouding my memory of this one (it was my very first Mario Party game after all) but I think Island Tour is pretty underrated all things considered. The minigames were a ton of fun and used the system's capabilities in a bunch of cool ways, the boards were really creative concept-wise (execution-wise....eh, not so much) and Bowser Tower was a really good side-mode that kept me coming back over and over again.
Overall, Mario Party Island Tour is pretty much the video game equivalent of a drive-thru meal: hollow when consumed anywhere but on-the-go, but a nice time within that context.
Overall, Mario Party Island Tour is pretty much the video game equivalent of a drive-thru meal: hollow when consumed anywhere but on-the-go, but a nice time within that context.
What an unbelievably "nothing" game. It's not broken, it functions, it's playable, but that's literally all I can say about it. I almost wish it was genuinely abysmal, but no, it's just dull and boring. Not surprisingly, this was one of the games I sold without a second thought when I got the chance, and I've never missed it
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Ok, I personally love this game and I really don’t know why so many people hate it. I grew up with this Mario Party game when I was a little kid and I still love it today. The boards were ok, the character selection was good, the mini games were fantastic, and the side modes were good too. My favorite side mode was by far when you have to fight all of these silver enemy’s and you make your way up several floors in a big tower and fight bosses along the way and then when you get to the top, you fight Bowser. This game mode I played literally all the time and I absolutely adored it. Overall, I love this game I think it is a amazing game and I honestly don’t know why so many people dislike the game or maybe even hate it.
Not the worst game in the series but it might be the most forgettable. The boards are unmemorable, some of the mini-games are actually really good and it uses the format of MP 9-10 which is not a good thing. It is playable and there is some fun to be had if you take the game by itself. If you compare it to the rest of the series, then there is no reason to play this.
Not an awful game and probably should score higher objectively but my God this is one of the most forgettable, boring, and generic games I've ever played. And it doesn't have the decency of being fun like the New Super Mario Bros series as most of the boards are dogshit with a few fun minigames sprinkled in there. I actually thought the story mode was alright because you didn't actually have to play on the boards, it was literally just minigames against CPUs. The final boss was also sort of cool but really you're not missing much if you skip this game.