In Rhythm Recital you and the other players tap out notes to a classic Super Mario tune and the player with the most accurate rhythm wins. There are a couple of other modes to round out the selection, but in the end they feel like they should have been minigames instead of separate modes. It’s easily the best collection of minigames in a Mario Party game in years it’s just unfortunate that because these minigames are spread over multiple game modes, they tend to repeat fairly often. They’re great minigames too lots of variety, simple controls, and just generally fun to play, with only one or two duds out of the whole bunch. How far you move and how quickly you go is entirely dependent on the coins you collect, so this mode is all about using items to mess up your opponent and your skill at the minigames. You and your opponents compete in minigame after minigame, collecting as many coins as possible while you automatically move around the board on the bottom screen.
The second new mode, Conathlon, is a lot more direct as it’s just straight minigames. It’s just too bad that Nintendo had to severely dumb down the board design to implement this new game mode.
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The simpler level design does take some of the trial and error out of Toad Scramble-a good player will have to recruit allies, collect coins and do well at the minigames and boss battles to ultimately triumph. They typically consist of a few smallish boards connected by straight paths, and while some of them have obstacles like lava, none of them come close to the crazy boards from previous Mario Party games. With such a dynamic new player and ally system it’s a shame that the levels are comparatively flat and bland. In my experience every player tried to snag Waluigi as soon as he appeared. Of course your opponent toads can also steal allies from you if you both land on the same space, which is accomplished through a microgame. Each ally has a unique ability, they will assist you in minigames and they also roll their own dice to add more moves to your roll, so it’s worth it to fill out your party as much as possible. This adds a whole new dynamic to the classic Mario Party formula because you’ll be keeping an eye out for allies instead of just hoovering up every coin you see trying to hit as many coins and item spaces in a turn, while trying to snag an ally along the way, adds some decent strategy that was missing from Mario Party 10.
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The main difference here is that instead of playing as Mario series “heroes” like Yoshi, Peach or the red-capped plumber himself, these heroes appear randomly on the board and your toad character can recruit them by running over their space. All players roll and move independently, so there’s a lot less waiting around and having each player move individually makes so much more sense from a board game perspective. Naturally you’ll land on minigame spaces and gain powerups, and the confusing emphasis on different flavors of dice is no longer there. Thankfully there’s more complexity to this mode than just the basics. The goal is ostensibly to move around the board gathering coins and making it to the boss spaces, where the player who scores the most hits against a boss gets rewarded with a star. The first mode is called Toad Scramble, and assigns each of four players to be one of four individual toads: red, yellow, green and blue. Mario Party Star Rush on 3DS does some work to right the ship as it were, but it’s still clear that most of Nintendo’s attentions and resources were on getting the Switch ready, and not giving the 3DS a truly great Mario Party send-off.įirst, the good: Nintendo has finally ditched the clumsy car mechanic from the past few Mario Party games and replaced it with two new modes that let players move independently around the board. The problem is that the halcyon days of the N64 and GameCube are long since passed, so the majority of recent Mario Party games really feel like they’re just going through the motions. Mario Party is one of those evergreen franchises that Nintendo can trot out when they’re having a slow year it’s the equivalent of when McDonalds puts Barbies and Hot Wheels in the Happy Meals because there isn’t some huge tie-in promotion happening.
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