The lack of motion controls just adds to the been there, played that feeling that permeates the Mario Party Superstars experience. She was much more disinclined to play Superstars because of this, and I can imagine many other little ones (and many casual players) will feel the same way. Take my daughter, as an example: Motion control minigames were her favorite, as the intuitive controls allowed her to keep pace with her brother and grown-ups during a game session. Making the game available to all types of Switch owners is a positive, but removing motion control games does paradoxically limit the types of players that can enjoy Mario Party Superstars. The move away from Joy-Con reliance also importantly means Mario Party Superstars is the first new Mario Party game released for the Switch that can be played on all flavors of the handheld (including the Switch Lite). This approach has its obvious benefits: Unlike Super Mario Party (which could only be played using single Joy-Cons), any Switch controller can be used in Superstar, and the game can also be played completely in handheld mode. I'm not a fan of minigames like Crazy Cutters and Trace Race that require precise movements such as tracing over a line, for example, but they're ones my son gravitates to because he's young and has much better eyesight and motor skills than I do.Īll of the minigames in Superstars are controlled solely by using controller buttons and a joystick, which means none of the Joy-Con's motion capabilities are utilized. As is typically the case with such an expansive list, not every one of these selections is a winner. Superstars even brings back some controversial minigames that require rotating your controller's analog stick (like Tug-O-War) which caused many a blister and even lawsuits back with the original Mario Party (but now are accompanied by a special warning). There are 100 games here, and among them is a great selection of classics, including the always hectic Bumper Balls, Booksquirm, Hexagon Heat, and one of my personal favorites, the Bowser-contorting Face Lift.
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Superstar's minigames are similarly cribbed from Mario Party games of old, and if you're feeling full retro, there are even options at the start of each game to only play minigames selected from the N64 or GameCube eras. Two stars in one turn! My son was angry at me for hours. During one tense game, I used a triple dice block to make sure I could hit Toadette's space to grab a star, before continuing on to a Boo space, where I paid the annoying ghost to steal a star from an opponent. Is one of your opponents one move away from Toadette (and therefore an all-precious Star) on Yoshi's Tropical Island? Then now's the time to use that custom dice block to land exactly on the event space that switches Toadette and Bowser's locations. You have to, for example, pay close attention to the day/night cycle in Horror Land to make sure the path you need will be open by the time you reach it. Yes, it's still hard to shake the rage that comes when seemingly random in-game events conspire to thwart carefully laid plans, but Mario Party Superstars (like most Mario Party games) shines in those occasional moments when your multi-turn strategy actually does bear fruit. Each of the boards here feature their own unique twists and turns that force you to think on the fly as conditions change. Nostalgia can only take you so far, though, so it's good that Superstar's boards-all taken from the first three Mario Party games-still feel fresh and engaging to play. I'm certainly old enough to remember the very first Mario Party back in the late '90s, so it was fun to get that hit of nostalgia dopamine when playing on classic boards like Peach's Birthday Cake and Yoshi's Tropical Island. In embracing the old, Superstar loses a lot of tweaks and additions that have livened up recent Mario Party games, making Superstars as much of a step back as it is a throwback. This is a game that delivers on the core Mario Party experience and is high on nostalgia, but my kids' questions highlighted the trade-off that comes with that approach. The newest entry, Mario Party Superstars, is a deliberate embrace of the Mario Party series' early days before motion control gimmicks and twists on its classic game mode became the norm. My kids have had a lot of experience with Super Mario Party (the previous game in the series, which was released on the Nintendo Switch in 2018), so these comparisons were inevitable.
Where, my 12-year-old son asked, was Monty Mole, his favorite character from the last game? Why are there no minigames where you have to waggle the controllers around, my seven-year-old daughter asked? Why are there so few characters to choose from anyway? And why does everyone have the same dice block?
My kids had a litany of questions during our first game of Mario Party Superstars.
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