A few days ago some colleagues joined in a joint post in which they talked about their experience with the Mario Party saga. Mine, not suitable for sensitive stomachs, is the result of having discovered the franchise between parties at friends’ houses, walks to the barracks, and Saturday nights in which Mario Party and cold pizza were the perfect culmination to having drunk even the water from the vases.
Today, however, the scenario is completely different. I stand in Mario Party Superstars with a Colacao and my children on one side and the other of the sofa. I return to a saga that brings back memories as crazy as they are fun. They are going to discover for the first time how much fun it is to push their brother off a cliff while riding a giant ball.
A shot of nostalgia
For those of you who are in a situation similar to mine – it is not necessary that you have set foot in the police station -, behind Mario Party Superstars is a compilation of five boards and 100 minigames from the time of Nintendo 64 and GameCube, so the kick of nostalgia with a few moments is considerable.
For those who, like my children, come back to the saga, the idea behind Mario Party Superstars is to bring board games to the world of video games to make participants compete with each other to see who gets the most stars.
Moving in turns on a thematic board, the objective of the game is to accumulate coins by landing on blue squares or winning in the Minigames that happen after each round. When you have enough and go through the box to buy stars, you can invest them in getting one to add it to your scoreboard.
From there each board has your own rules and special boxes. Some move the star around, others allow you to buy new dice or objects that help you or hinder your rivals, others ask you to have a key to pass, and you can even ask for help from classic enemies so that, upon payment, they steal stars to your companions.
Rules tailored for young and old
One of the great assets when playing with children is the possibility of tweaking the rules of the game at will. You choose the rounds and the time it will take to complete the game, you can disable the bonus stars that are given at the end for having completed certain milestones such as having more coins than the rest, you can lengthen the game by adding shifts if the time of the game has been delayed. bathroom, or you can even save the game to resume another day if by chance you hear in the background a “the joke is good, it’s 9:00 p.m. and those children have to shower and have dinner”.
But although the five boards are more than enough to invest a good handful of hours in the game without having the feeling of constantly repeating the same thing – beware, it is not a game to burn in an afternoon just as you do not spend a week whole playing Catán every day – I must admit that we have fallen squarely into the pit of minigames.
In addition to the normal mode, Mario Party Superstars It has a mode specially designed for minigames. Called Mount Minigames so that no one gets lost along the way, the idea is to compete in the 100 available minigames choosing them at will or sticking to some basic schemes such as always playing in pairs, one against three, limiting yourself to sports minigames and puzzles, or even compete online against players from all over the world.
Come on, no matter how much effort you put into it, it is one of those games that you don’t finish. Even less considering that among its boards and minigames you have a selection of the most painted that the two generations of consoles in which Mario Party He knew how to reign without strange experiments or out of pot.
More excuses to keep playing
In addition to the game customization improvements we discussed earlier, Mario Party Superstars It also includes a great idea for online games that, as a bounce, we have also used ad nauseam on the sofa piques: the stickers.
The idea is that you can communicate with the rest of the players using a series of stickers in which you regret a bad roll or troll the staff by applauding them when they have fallen into a trap. Basic like the mechanism of a botijo, but a very nice addition.
For those who enjoy collectibles, the coins earned in normal games and the Mount Minigames They will serve to expand your collection of stickers, but also to unlock music, designs for your player card and other cute things that will not change the game or expand its content, but serve as a goal to continue completing challenges in search of 100%.
The truth is that it is one of those games that, on paper, may seem scanty because of only having five boards, but nothing you start to play you become aware of how much there is at your disposal. Too bad, yes, not being able to add more than four players after modifying the minigames to adapt them to larger sessions.
VidaExtra’s opinion
Although it may seem that the saga is one of those franchises in which you step on safe, the truth is that it has been in Switch when it has begun to take flight after several failed experiments. Mario Party Superstars it is the definitive proof that what already works should not be changed. He did it 20 years ago in a questionable adolescence and continues to do so now accompanied by your family.
Both for the nostalgia factor and for being the perfect excuse to have a good time with your loved ones, Mario Party Superstars It is one of those games that magically sneaks into the letter to the Magi. Of those games that you don’t know you needed until you find yourself clawing for hours at bath and dinner time.
Mario Party Superstars
Platforms | Switch |
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Multiplayer | Yes |
Developer | NDcube |
Company | Nintendo |
Launching | October 29, 2021 |
The best
- A great combination of boards and mini-games
- The pique in Monte Minigames jumping from one to another
- The idea of the stickers
Worst
- More use is needed of the possibilities of the Switch command
- Why settle for 100 minigames and ask for even more