![]() ![]() But that's not just for nostalgia's sake. While you'll see a few mini-games from Mario Party 8, 9, and 10, Mario Party Superstars pulls most of its mini-games from the earlier Nintendo 64 and GameCube titles. Ultimate, a grand celebration of everything in the series rather than the mere sample we have here. Imagine Mario Party’s answer to Super Smash Bros. ![]() Two boards in Superstars, Peach’s Birthday Cake and Yoshi’s Tropical Island, come from the very first Mario Party, a game which offered eight boards 20 years ago. The previous Mario Party, Super Mario Party, featured 20 characters and 84 original games. Since this is a remake, I would have liked to see a much bigger scope. ![]() If this was new material, those would be reasonable numbers. ![]() Mario Party Superstars features five boards, 100 mini-games, and 10 playable characters pulled from the series' history. However, as a digital board game, Mario Party works much better as a social multiplayer home console experience rather than a handheld one, even if the Nintendo Switch can do both. A few years ago, Nintendo released Mario Party: The Top 100, a compilation for the Nintendo 3DS. The idea of a Mario Party game recycling old Mario Party content is, itself, a recycled idea. You Get Older, Mario Party Stays the Same However, unless you’re a die-hard Mario Party fan, the content-lite Superstars feels more like a pleasant, fleeting memory instead of a full-on blast from the past. Mario Party Superstars offers a select crop of those classic boards and mini-games as a new, A$79.95 Nintendo Switch game. However, Mario Party has changed enough over the years that you might be nostalgic for the franchise’s early Nintendo 64 and GameCube entries. The mini-game collections follow the faux board game format so exactly they start to blur together. Nintendo has released nearly a dozen Mario Party games since 1998 even more if you count the spin-off titles. ![]()
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