Mario Party 10 Wii U
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Mario Party 10
New Modes, Same Celebration
GI Rating 6
by Kyle Hilliard on March 16, 2015 at 10:00 AM
I get Mario Party. I have fun when I play it, and though the random elements of the game can be absolutely infuriating, I understand why they’re there. To place one player immensely in the lead, or to throw another tremendously behind isn’t fun for the group. The series has always been developed with the group in mind, and Mario Party 10 is no different. If you’re playing with people you enjoy, you’re going to have a good time. In almost any other scenario, however, it’s a monotonous trudge through the multicolored fantasy worlds of the Mushroom Kingdom.
The standard Mario Party mode is here copied from Mario Party 9, but with new maps and minigames. You travel as a group in a vehicle as opposed to separately on a board, which I prefer. Players don’t waste time during their turn mapping out the board, and it speeds up the pace and keeps everyone together. A new option to use a “no luck” minigame pack is a welcome addition; it doesn’t completely eliminate the luck factor of Mario Party, but it helps. The main mode plays it safe, but Mario Party 10 does try something different with the new Bowser and Amiibo Party modes.
Bowser Party places one player on the GamePad and up to four other players on Wii remotes, turning Mario Party into an asymmetrical multiplayer board game. The team, together in their vehicle, tries to outrun Bowser. When it’s Bowser’s turn, he rolls multiple dice to try to catch up. If Bowser reaches the other players, he gets a chance to knock down their collected hearts during minigames. Bowser’s goal is to eliminate everyone before they make it to the end.
On a few occasions, Bowser uses the GamePad view to hide traps on the board, or gets to play the minigames from a different perspective, but the GamePad feels underused. After fantastic minigames like Mario Chase from Nintendoland that took good advantage of the secondary screen, it seemed like Mario Party was poised to show off some interesting GamePad functionality. After a few rounds, I was underwhelmed. It feels like a missed opportunity overall to really show what can be done with a second screen, but I still prefer Bowser Party over the standard mode and Amiibo Party.
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The idea behind Amiibo Party is the Amiibo you hold in your hand is the piece you see on screen. The mode offers smaller boards than typical Mario Party boards, but functionally the game is the same – roll dice, try to get stars, play minigames. In order to roll the dice and select items, you pick up your Amiibo, touch it to a gamepad and remove it. This is charming at first, but if you have any more than one person playing, it means every player has to hold their Amiibos, a Wii remote, and have access to the GamePad. It’s clunky, and becomes complicated quickly when everyone has to trade between the three inputs of play.
Amiibo Party should answer the question, “What are these things for?” – a common question for those who aren’t interested in buying Amiibos purely as collectibles. You need an Amiibo to access the mode, and it’s easily the most substantial use of Amiibos yet – especially since they are truly implemented into (admittedly shallow) gameplay. This mode offers a lot of gameplay, but it is the weakest offering of Mario Party 10.
Along with the main three modes, you also get a collection of additional games too small to stand alone, but too large to be featured as minigames. Jewel Drop is an entertaining color matching physics-based puzzle game, and Badminton Bash recalls Wii Sports tennis among a few others. These games are fun, but ultimately nothing more than distractions.
Bowser Party stands out as the welcome twist to the standard Mario Party, and the option to play only skill-based minigames in any mode helps avoid some of the random frustration I have experienced with previous entries. I also appreciate the time-to-play estimations associated with each mode (as opposed to number of turns), and the minigame exclusive tournaments. All of this doesn’t alleviate the standard overarching Mario Party complaints: You won’t have fun without friends, and you’re going to get screwed no matter what at some point and you can’t do anything about it.
The number score is low but the written review is what I pretty much exactly what I expected to hear. If you have a fun group of people to play with its good, if not, don't touch this game with a 10 yard stick.
New Modes, Same Celebration
GI Rating 6
by Kyle Hilliard on March 16, 2015 at 10:00 AM
I get Mario Party. I have fun when I play it, and though the random elements of the game can be absolutely infuriating, I understand why they’re there. To place one player immensely in the lead, or to throw another tremendously behind isn’t fun for the group. The series has always been developed with the group in mind, and Mario Party 10 is no different. If you’re playing with people you enjoy, you’re going to have a good time. In almost any other scenario, however, it’s a monotonous trudge through the multicolored fantasy worlds of the Mushroom Kingdom.
The standard Mario Party mode is here copied from Mario Party 9, but with new maps and minigames. You travel as a group in a vehicle as opposed to separately on a board, which I prefer. Players don’t waste time during their turn mapping out the board, and it speeds up the pace and keeps everyone together. A new option to use a “no luck” minigame pack is a welcome addition; it doesn’t completely eliminate the luck factor of Mario Party, but it helps. The main mode plays it safe, but Mario Party 10 does try something different with the new Bowser and Amiibo Party modes.
Bowser Party places one player on the GamePad and up to four other players on Wii remotes, turning Mario Party into an asymmetrical multiplayer board game. The team, together in their vehicle, tries to outrun Bowser. When it’s Bowser’s turn, he rolls multiple dice to try to catch up. If Bowser reaches the other players, he gets a chance to knock down their collected hearts during minigames. Bowser’s goal is to eliminate everyone before they make it to the end.
On a few occasions, Bowser uses the GamePad view to hide traps on the board, or gets to play the minigames from a different perspective, but the GamePad feels underused. After fantastic minigames like Mario Chase from Nintendoland that took good advantage of the secondary screen, it seemed like Mario Party was poised to show off some interesting GamePad functionality. After a few rounds, I was underwhelmed. It feels like a missed opportunity overall to really show what can be done with a second screen, but I still prefer Bowser Party over the standard mode and Amiibo Party.
Play Video
The idea behind Amiibo Party is the Amiibo you hold in your hand is the piece you see on screen. The mode offers smaller boards than typical Mario Party boards, but functionally the game is the same – roll dice, try to get stars, play minigames. In order to roll the dice and select items, you pick up your Amiibo, touch it to a gamepad and remove it. This is charming at first, but if you have any more than one person playing, it means every player has to hold their Amiibos, a Wii remote, and have access to the GamePad. It’s clunky, and becomes complicated quickly when everyone has to trade between the three inputs of play.
Amiibo Party should answer the question, “What are these things for?” – a common question for those who aren’t interested in buying Amiibos purely as collectibles. You need an Amiibo to access the mode, and it’s easily the most substantial use of Amiibos yet – especially since they are truly implemented into (admittedly shallow) gameplay. This mode offers a lot of gameplay, but it is the weakest offering of Mario Party 10.
Along with the main three modes, you also get a collection of additional games too small to stand alone, but too large to be featured as minigames. Jewel Drop is an entertaining color matching physics-based puzzle game, and Badminton Bash recalls Wii Sports tennis among a few others. These games are fun, but ultimately nothing more than distractions.
Bowser Party stands out as the welcome twist to the standard Mario Party, and the option to play only skill-based minigames in any mode helps avoid some of the random frustration I have experienced with previous entries. I also appreciate the time-to-play estimations associated with each mode (as opposed to number of turns), and the minigame exclusive tournaments. All of this doesn’t alleviate the standard overarching Mario Party complaints: You won’t have fun without friends, and you’re going to get screwed no matter what at some point and you can’t do anything about it.
The number score is low but the written review is what I pretty much exactly what I expected to hear. If you have a fun group of people to play with its good, if not, don't touch this game with a 10 yard stick.
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Play a party game for the single player experience brehs
King Koopa
All Star
This thread was jokes.I like Mario Party, but I don't think I'll cop. I'm sure most of my friends wouldn't fukk wit it.
Uncle_Ruckus
We The North
Game is getting bad reviews. 
Might just wait till this goes on sale.
Might just wait till this goes on sale.
^ really? MP usually gets crazy go reviews, how can they mess up MP...
Game is getting butchered in reviews.
I put the game informer review in the thread. It got a 6 but the body of the review says its fun with 4 players, otherwise stay away from it.
I put the game informer review in the thread. It got a 6 but the body of the review says its fun with 4 players, otherwise stay away from it.
Black Cac
neg me if you love white women
Nintendo 1st party games rarely do thatGame is getting bad reviews.
STAN JONES
Fire John Harbaugh
i cant get this game to work with any controller except those garbage ass wii controllers 
with the wii u gamepad it only lets you be bowser chasing the people playing the games and the pro controller wont work at all
with the wii u gamepad it only lets you be bowser chasing the people playing the games and the pro controller wont work at all
Didn't you look at the back of the box to see what controllers were compatible first?i cant get this game to work with any controller except those garbage ass wii controllers
with the wii u gamepad it only lets you be bowser chasing the people playing the games and the pro controller wont work at all
STAN JONES
Fire John Harbaugh
Hell noDidn't you look at the back of the box to see what controllers were compatible first?
I preordered this sshyt of Amazon a minute ago and forgot about it until it showed up at my door yesterday
Now I gotta waste money buying wii remotes because i only have 1
I understand the pro controller doesn't work because it doesn't have motion controls but what is the reason for the game pad not working
What about the people who never owned a wii and dont have any wii remotes? They are totally fukked because you cant even play until you pair a wii remote
shyt is crazy
Can you imagine not being able to play a ps4 game until you pair a ps3 controller with the system?
This game SUCKS
Its boring. The mini games are cool, but the main part of Mario Party, the maps, are boring as fukk. Half the time you don't even know what is going on because everything is moving so fast. There's no story line or anything.
This game is fukking weak and I wish I had rented it before I bought it. Huge L for Nintendo
Its boring. The mini games are cool, but the main part of Mario Party, the maps, are boring as fukk. Half the time you don't even know what is going on because everything is moving so fast. There's no story line or anything.
This game is fukking weak and I wish I had rented it before I bought it. Huge L for Nintendo
i think the wii u has been great online for me, kart and smash always run smooth
but you are 100% correct, this game is def meant to be sitting around together playing local multi...I havnt played a Mario Party game since college, when we turned it into a drinking gameI may actually get this one tho since Im living with my buddy and his kids and have baby sitting duty often.
me too
ppl had it on 64 and gamecube on my hall...fights broke out on that shyt after drinks starting flowing (same with smash bros). this rich yute from kingston was getting heckled by the most annoying person ive ever met IRL from palm beach so then he threw a chair at him and slapped him
top 15 funniest moment of my life
KevCo
Bond's gun spoke once....
Hell no
I preordered this sshyt of Amazon a minute ago and forgot about it until it showed up at my door yesterday
Now I gotta waste money buying wii remotes because i only have 1
I understand the pro controller doesn't work because it doesn't have motion controls but what is the reason for the game pad not working
What about the people who never owned a wii and dont have any wii remotes? They are totally fukked because you cant even play until you pair a wii remote
shyt is crazy
Can you imagine not being able to play a ps4 game until you pair a ps3 controller with the system?
its nintendo breh, alot of what they do seems ass backwards (esp the fact that your DL games are tied to the system, not the username)