Mario Party Superstars

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Mario Party Superstars
Basically what The Top 100 should've been.
Platform(s): Nintendo Switch
Release Date: October 29, 2021
Developer(s): NDcube
Publisher(s): Nintendo
Country: Japan
Series: Mario Party
Predecessor: Mario Party: The Top 100 (loose prequel)
Super Mario Party (by release date)
Successor: Super Mario Party Jamboree

Mario Party Superstars is a 2021 party video game developed by NDcube and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the second Mario Party game released for the Switch. Like Mario Party: The Top 100, This game is based on remastering the previous mini-games from the first 10 home console Mario Party games (Mario Party to Mario Party 10), but expanded on.

Why It Invites You To Become a Superstar

  1. Unlike Mario Party: The Top 100, this game HAS a purpose & its basically an apology for releasing The Top 100, with its bad minigames & the lacking of modes. Where in this game, there are better minigames, more fleshed out modes, & RETURNING boards. It's basically what The Top 100 should've been.
  2. This game is not a nostalgia pander since it's the right amount.
  3. The minigames are actually fun instead of the ones from The Top 100 since there's more good minigames instead of the mediocre ones. Some of the minigames were improved on.
  4. Unlike in Super Mario Party, you can use a Pro Controller as you please instead of using just the Joy-Cons.
  5. The boards are one of the best in the series; like Yoshi's Tropical Island, Space Land, Peach's Birthday Cake, Woody Woods, & Horror Land.
  6. Birdo returns after a hiatus since Mario Party 9.
    • Speaking of characters, the character's selection screen from Mario Party 1.
  7. This game is very customizable.
    • You can choose 10, 15, 20, 25 or even 30 turns.
    • You can choose the Bonus Stars on, off, or classic like the classic games.
    • You can turn on or off Minigame Help & Handicap, respectively.
    • You're not forced to watch the CPUs playing item minigames.
    • You can choose between the classic or the modern version of a certain music.
    • You can skip events during the happening spaces. You can even speed up the CPU speed if they feel like they're moving slow on the boards.
    • You can save up to 10 games. Plus, you can add more turns if the game doesn't feel long enough.
  8. This game goes back to its original roots on why its good, like stars are 20 coins, & you'll be rewarded if you roll the same number on multiple dice roles.
  9. The hub world is same hub world from Mario Party 1, but with changes.
  10. You can do a full board play online.
  11. The intro photos were remade to add the modern characters.
  12. This game has the most minigames in the series, with 105 minigames to choose from!

Super-Terrible Qualities

  1. This game has 10 playable characters, where Super Mario Party has 20 which is questionable. To be fair, this is called Mario Party SUPERSTARS using the 10 most popular Mario Party characters who are not Toads.
  2. Even though this game has more boards than Super Mario Party with 4, the 5 boards is disappointing since Mario Party 1 has 8 to choose from. There were no GameCube or Wii boards like:
  3. There is a minigame imbalance between the non-N64 minigames, where there's only 4 minigames from 9, two from 8 & three from 10! Not to mention, every non-N64 game (except Mario Party 6) has less minigames than the Top 100, as 4 only has 8, 5 has 10, 6 has 12 and 7 only has 6. To be fair, most of the good minigames are from the classic games.

Reception

Mario Party Superstars has an average score of 80/100 based on 88 reviews on Metacritic, indicating "generally favorable reviews". It is currently the highest rated Mario Party game on Metacritic.

Trivia

  1. This game has the most minigames in the Mario Party franchise, with 105.
  2. Nathaniel Bandy kinda predicted some parts for this game when criticizing The Top 100:
    • In How Mario Party: The Top 100 TRIGGERS You!, he said "There's only 8 characters?! 8?! And they don't even have Donkey Kong or Birdo!". Where in this game, it's the exact same roster PLUS Donkey Kong & Birdo as playable characters.
    • In Ranking Every Mario Party Game, around #15 (where The Top 100 is placed), when he said "But if you're thinking they bring back old boards, then you're surely mistaken", he shows both Yoshi's Tropical Island & Peach's Birthday Cake, which both of those boards are in this game.
  3. This is the second highest-selling Mario Party game, with around 12 million sales worldwide.
  4. This game uses the same engine as Super Mario Party.
  5. It and Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania share similarities:
    • Both games are remasters from the old games: Super Monkey Ball Deluxe and Mario Party 1, 2, and 3 respetively.
      • Both even feature classic music: Mario Party Superstars has a free classic music while Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania has DLC music.
    • Both games use gameplays as part of their promotional artwork and screenshot.
    • Both have the same font; in this case, New Rodin-MT Bold.
    • Both appear back-to-back in the Nintendo Direct E3 2021.

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