Super Mario Party is Nintendo Switch’s best game
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When I bought the Nintendo Switch a few months ago, my friends told me
to buy Super Mario Odyssey, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. That’s precisely what I did, but none of those
games were enough to get me hooked, which is probably for the best.
But then came Super Mario Party, which Nintendo released earlier this
month for the Switch. I grew up gaming, but somehow never played Super
Mario Party. Well, it seems as if I’ve been missing out my whole life.
Super Mario Party for Nintendo Switch is a quick, pick-up-and-play kind
of game. You set the difficulty level, tell the game how much you want
to party (ten, fifteen or twenty turns) and that’s how long you’ll
party. But be careful playing with your friends or significant others —
because it’s bound to stir up people’s competitive nature.
For those who are unfamiliar with Super Mario Party, it’s a digital
board game. The name of the game (well, not literally) is to collect the
most stars.
This is my character, Bowser Jr., collecting a star like a boss
To collect these stars, you roll one of two dice — a standard one or one
that’s unique to your character. Some characters have dice that roll up
to ten (like Donkey Kong and Bowser), but that also comes with the risk
of not moving at all or losing coins, which you need to buy stars.
After each round, you play a mini-game, where you’re able to earn some
more coins. Depending on the game, you’ll need to put your memory,
hand-eye coordination or even sense of touch to work. Thankfully,
there’s an opportunity to practice before each mini-game.
Throughout the game, there are opportunities to steal coins and stars
from people. During my last party, Luigi stole a star from Yoshi (played
by my girlfriend) and it wasn’t pretty. Let’s just say profanities were
exclaimed.
There are more than 80 minigames available to play — some of which make
great use of the Joy Con, the name for the Switch’s detachable
controllers.
The party mode has four game boards. My favorite board (that is, the
board on which I tend to perform the best, is Megafruit Paradise. Down
the road, maybe through a software update of sorts, it’d be great to
have more boards to choose from.
Super Mario Party also features a couple of other modes — river
survival, where you control a boat with the Joy-Con paddles, a Sound
Stage that reminds me of Dance Dance Revolution and mini-game mode,
where you just play mini-games.
But in my experience, its the most fun to play the standard party mode.
I’ve heard the best way to play the game is with four humans, but I’ve
only ever played it with my girlfriend. We’re already both pretty
intense about it so I could only imagine what it’d be like to play with
two other people. Consider this my open invitation to holler at me to
get a party started.
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