This sounds like aminor step forwards (getting the best mini games together) and major steps back. Disappointed. Another Mario Party I'm not buying. Another filler entry in the 3DS library.
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Mario Party: The Top 100 |OT| Let's be honest, they rolled the dice block on this list
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Abload.de works best for me, and it also doesn't cause any issues on this board I think.
Yeah, that's a good reason of course.
If you want to get Mario Party 2 on Wii Virtual Console, it's available until March. After that, you can't add Wii Points anymore so you can't buy anything more unless you have stocked points into the service. In case you're interested in that.
Hmm, I knew about this issue but everything loads fine for me and no one's complained so far... the site staff must still be looking into this right and it'll probably fix itself?
I admittedly haven't played the game yet (I'll probably rent it like I have with every MP game since Party Island or whatever it was called) but I posted my thoughts on the game based on reviews and my impressions from the review thread so I'll paste that here:
At this point, do any of you think Nintendo will admit defeat and go back to how the Hudson games played? I don't think it's gonna happen, tbh.
Nintendo is often a very stubborn company. When they release hit after hit, it's great, but when a series of theirs starts to decline, they rarely turn things around. Look at F-Zero, Star Fox, Paper Mario, the Mario Sports games, and arguably Mario & Luigi. Metroid is a rare exception.
At this point, do any of you think Nintendo will admit defeat and go back to how the Hudson games played? I don't think it's gonna happen, tbh.
Nintendo is often a very stubborn company. When they release hit after hit, it's great, but when a series of theirs starts to decline, they rarely turn things around. Look at F-Zero, Star Fox, Paper Mario, the Mario Sports games, and arguably Mario & Luigi. Metroid is a rare exception.
Yeah, it's really hard to see them "go back" to how the games used to be. The gap of time and changeover of developer between Mario Party 8 and 9 created a hard gap in philosophy. It's nice that this has been the first kind of "throwback" to the old games since then, and makes you think maybe they'll reconsider that kind of big break, but it seems a bit wasted here when the board game mode is still abysmal.
I'm sure with casual players they really don't see a difference in sales between current and old Mario Party games, so they don't have much push to challenge themselves or devote more development time.
Mario Party is honestly such a pure example of a series that benefits so much from being a "video game" entirely through its design through minigames and extremely hilarious board game events, and even in the classic entries that potential has always felt rushed and so a bit wasted. It sucks.
Wasn't Mario Party 10 a big flop compared to the previous entries? It's not like they can put out anything regardless of quality and the sales won't suffer.
Now, it's an entirely different matter if they care about sales suffering, but at least the players care even if Nintendo doesn't.
Wasn't it? They also didn't follow it up with another game. It should have been cheap to make Mario Party 11 with the same engine.
Instead of that, the series has gone handheld only for the latest installments, when previously the handheld games used to be a once in a generation thing.
Where do you even get information like this? Like people just convince themselves what they want to be true, is.
Doing a super quick review of sketchy wiki pages it looks like MP10 sold about as much or more than all the entries outside of the Wii/DS anomalies. Selling to a similar number is also impressive considering the Wii U install base is the worst of the lot - it's literally charted as the 10th game in Nintendo's official Top 10 Wii U software sales.
http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Mario_Party
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/software/wiiu.html
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Nd Cube also developed Wii Party U and Amiibo Festival for Wii U, so they were still busy pumping out party games even if it wasn't all Mario Party.
Thanks for that info. I was mostly going by the Wii/DS sales which were much bigger as you say, and the Japanese sales, where MP10 underperformed. Guess it must have done better worldwide.
Yeah, I completely forgot about Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival, and I guess most people did. Now that's a bonafide flop.
A Mario Party 11 in place of Animal Crossing AF should have by all accounts done better.
Yeah, it is pretty disappointing Amiibo Festival happened over MP11.
There was something rotten at the gameplay core of that game though that just makes me question Nd Cube entirely. It's not just rushed dev time, they keep making these questionable design decisions.
I don't believe Amiibo Festival happened instead of a MP 11 rather why allocate dev resources to a game where profit isn't gonna maximized and instead do something cheap and recognizable and push development back for the NX
So while this title provides no meaningful wrapper for the games outside of Minigame Match (which is just another Balloon Bash map from Star Rush with some extra items), it's actually a fairly decent selection of games.
I just wish they gave some other reason to play them. One or two more boards would've been enough to keep this from being a middling title in my eyes.
That said the three they picked for this are pretty basic ones. I'll never get over MPDS having each one in the series up to that point, and it kinda irks me that they haven't followed up on that since.
I just wish they gave some other reason to play them. One or two more boards would've been enough to keep this from being a middling title in my eyes.
I don't know about expert, but I think the MP puzzle games are fun enough. Nothing special, but decent enough time wasters that can get challenging if you're going for a high score.
That said the three they picked for this are pretty basic ones. I'll never get over MPDS having each one in the series up to that point, and it kinda irks me that they haven't followed up on that since.
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Nd Cube did Amiibo Festival as well? Shouldn't be too surprised by that...
Honestly, I wonder how much Nd Cube cares about the games they're making. Is it higher ups at Nintendo demanding these titles to be as lackluster as they are or is Nd simply one of Nintendo's worst development teams?
Honestly, I wonder how much Nd Cube cares about the games they're making. Is it higher ups at Nintendo demanding these titles to be as lackluster as they are or is Nd simply one of Nintendo's worst development teams?
I don't know what the Planet Robobot multiplayer is like, but depending on their age, it sounds like this could be better for them than a more traditional title like Star Rush, since this focuses squarely on the minigames. But then again, isn't one or even both of the earlier titles available as Nintendo Selects? Wouldn't be too expensive to get both.
Yeah, Star Rush is easily recommended over this one, it's the best 3DS Mario Party. It has more single player unlockables/goals as well, so could keep kids a bit more busy too.
Mario Party Island Tour is also on 3DS and I'd still recommend it over this one as well. Or even Mario Party DS if you think they could stomach more retro games.
Nope, there's a lot of missing gems. At least there's a decent proportion of games from MP5 and MP6.
Well, I think another retro Mario Party throwback would be welcomed by literally everyone especially if they actually put some effort in and recreated some old style game boards.
