I haven't played any Mario Party game before 9 excluding DS, so I treat these "remade" boards as new ones in my mind, as you do. Mechanically they vary; Peach's Birthday Cake is mind-numbingly easy and un-dynamic while the space and haunted house ones have some fun gimmicks that make games lots of fun. What drags the game down for me is just the lack of boards, there's only 5. If they had around 10 I'd definitely rate it higher.
Wild how much better this is than Super Mario Party which just makes that game feel like even more of a rip-off than it already was. However, the sad reality is that this is "good" because it's just member-berries of Mario Party of yore. Nintendo has literally run out of ideas of how to make fun minigames and boards so it's time to mine the well. And this isn't exactly Shakespeare so I don't mind going back to the hub menu of Mario Party 1 in HD. Yeah, it feels good. It's cool to have all the old games back, and even to play the Gamecube ones I never had played before.
It's interesting that this removes the few ideas from Super Mario Party that were actually good or innovative. I don't know if this is a different dev team, but it does have the energy of "fuck those guys and their ideas". Little things like no spin-wheel on the hidden block showing if you will get a star; no companions or unique blocks per character. Those things mixed it up and this game is pretty determined to go back to basics. At least stars cost 20 coins again and you can actually get super fucked over by landing on a random space, which is the spice of these games and Super Mario Party neutered it to the point of being boring as hell.
It's interesting that this removes the few ideas from Super Mario Party that were actually good or innovative. I don't know if this is a different dev team, but it does have the energy of "fuck those guys and their ideas". Little things like no spin-wheel on the hidden block showing if you will get a star; no companions or unique blocks per character. Those things mixed it up and this game is pretty determined to go back to basics. At least stars cost 20 coins again and you can actually get super fucked over by landing on a random space, which is the spice of these games and Super Mario Party neutered it to the point of being boring as hell.