In my opinion, the weakest of the GCN Mario Parties. The orb system is poorly thought out, the minigames are a very mixed bag, the boards are fine but not great, and on top of that I just think it's really ugly. Everything has this "plastic toy" look to it that makes me long for the sweet release of 7th-gen brown shooter graphics.

They got the Star Spirits, though. That's pretty cool.