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

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.

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.

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.

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!).

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.