Abstract: I've always viewed the Mario Party series as the house party of video games -- something that nearly all of us have attended at least once throughout our lives at various levels of inebriation. When the series first started, it had a certain mystique a...
Abstract: WiiIt's time to smash controllers once again. Mario Party 9 busts on to the Wii, five years after the last main installment. This is the first game in the series to be made by Nd Cube Co. instead of Hudson Soft. The game feels very familiar as soon as ...
Abstract: When you get to the ninth iteration of any video game franchise, it's bound to be a little boring unless the developers change things up. Nintendo knows this, and they've designed Mario Party 9 to be unlike anything you have seen in the Mario Party ser...
The Mario Party games are meant to be played with a room of friends (and the total lack of online play reflects this). But every party will always be subverted by this entry's reliance on randomness to "shake things up," as Bowser puts it when he is ab...
Abstract: It is easy to dismiss Mario Party 9 without even giving it a try. Since Mario Party 6, no game in the series had a major impact, with 7 and 8 almost being perfect examples about how to take the fun out of a franchise. Similar games surpassed its formul...
Abstract: Mario Party ReviewMario Party used to be a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. I played the series most when it was on the Nintendo 64, with its boardgame meets mini-game collection hybrid proving to be ideal for multiplayer sessions. I never thought I wa...
Abstract: Mario Party returns this Sunday after an unanticipated five year hiatus. Why so long between games? Judging by the series’ steadily declining metacritic scores, Nintendo likely figured fans were getting a little tired of the same old formula. One also ...
Abstract: The Mario Party series could arguably be viewed as a precursor for a lot of the more “casual” games that have flooded the videogame market in the years that followed. The original title was released on the Nintendo 64 in 1998, and has been popular ever...
