Mario Party
Nintendo Classics We Can Go Without Ever Seeing Again
It’s time to take off those rose-tinted glasses and face the facts, Mario Party is a bad series. There are gems to be found in the form of Mario Party 4 & 5, but largely it’s made up of games which range from average to downright horrible. The recent iterations have been particularly uninspiring, with Mario Party 10 being one of the worst in the series and the Mario party: Top 100 collection on Nintendo 3DS being a stark reminder of just how shallow the series can be at times.
The main problem with recent entries is the focus on board-game style luck rather than on competitive mini games. Spending hours on a game only to have your points swapped with a player at the last minute is never a good time and the introduction of gimmicky motion controls only dampened the mood further. Mario Party was fun at some point, though those days are far, far behind us. The series is probably worth digging out the GameCube and playing a few games with a group of pals and a box of beers but other than that, let’s leave it well and truly in the past.
