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 AI is now improved in this game, even though they are somewhat dumb.
  4. There are many fan-favorite minigames compared to the mediocre 3DS game.
  5. 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.
  6. Unlike in Super Mario Party, you can use a Pro Controller as you please instead of using just the Joy-Cons.
  7. 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.
  8. There are some new and expressive animations for each character, such as Rosalina twirling with her wand and Waluigi biting his own rose.
  9. Birdo returns after a hiatus since Mario Party 9.
    • Speaking of characters, the character's selection screen is from Mario Party 1.
  10. 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.
  11. There are minigame modes such as:
    • In Tag Match, players can compete in a series of 2 vs 2 minigames and the majority of stars (3, 5, or 10) will be the winner.
    • In Trio Challenge, the player must compete five 1 vs 3 minigames to achieve ranks when they did it perfectly.
    • In Coin Battle, players must collect coins when playing minigames.
    • In Survival, players must win minigames and collect global rankings (this is exclusive to online play).
    • In Daily Challenge, the player must compete in certain minigames to complete challenges (this is also exclusive to online play like Survival mode).
    • And in Sports and Puzzles, the player must play special minigames since The Top 100, they can save puzzle minigames (Block Star and Stick & Spin only) when they lose a minigame.
  12. 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.
  13. The hub world is same hub world from Mario Party 1, but with changes.
  14. You can do a full board play online.
  15. Colorful graphics that is a major step up from the N64 (and to extents, GCN and Wii Mario Party games) trilogy (due to the boards originating from here). The graphics can be compared to that of a high-quality animated CGI movie.
    • The minigames have realistic settings and the objects with eyes and mouths disappeared, reflecting its aforementioned themes.
  16. Constellations return since Mario Party 9 and it is based on missions, clearing it will reveal an object. After completing 50 achievements (optional for 10 online achievements), fireworks will appear in the night sky.
  17. The credits is a book, in which the player touches old photos to become new ones, touching a Boo (in Mario Party 5) or Donkey Kong (in Mario Party 10) will hear their voices too.
  18. The intro photos were remade to add the modern characters.
  19. This game has the most minigames in the series, with 105 minigames to choose from!
  20. Stickers appear for the first time in this game, where they click the joystick to choose then to press the A, Y, X, L, or R button to see them to others. Unlike Crash Boom Bang!, where stickers are repetitive in minigames, these stickers aren't as repetitive, and they are turned off when playing a minigame.
  21. There is a way to change turns in "Mario Party" mode since Mario Party DS.
  22. Like Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania, It brought the series back to its former glory after the ND Cube Mario Party games that came after it received mixed-to-negative reception from fans due to the implementation of cars (in 9 and 10) and the 1-6 dice blocks, which is an amazing way.
  23. This game allows you to play as Donkey Kong on returning Mario Party 5 - 9 mini-games (installments of the series where he was a NPC) and Birdo on Mario Party 1 - 6 and 10.

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. The characters making noises can be extremely annoying.
  3. The Character Color Code was not used.
  4. There are infamous minigames such as Tug-o-War, Cast Aways, and Hide-and-Sneak that return with the former two not only with the risk of skin irritation, but also with the risk of Joy-Con drift. The latter being the worst lucky minigame as the player have a chance to lose when playing as solo and it will rarely win the Trio Challenge Stage 4, especially during Master difficulty, similar what happened to them when the player plays Deck Hands in Mario Party: The Top 100.
  5. 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:
  6. 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.
  7. No ending cutscene unlike Super Mario Party where there is an ending after the player collects all the gems.
  8. Lack of in-depth content.
  9. Typo: When you get the item "Cursed Dice Block", its description misspells "dice" as "die". This is yet to be fixed.
  10. There are difficult missions such as "Stick and Spin Boss", which can be obtained after reaching Level 99 because it is almost impossible to complete levels 91-95, due to being the hardest levels in the game.
  11. There are some minigames that do not change their design, including victory animation settings, such as Ice Rink Risk and Bounce n' Trounce, where the designs are taken from the third Mario Party minigame.
    • The Ice Rink Risk and Bounce n' Trounce from the Top 100 version, which came out nearly 4 years ago, were better designed than these.
    • Some minigames don't have any color-coded items like flags (from Paths of Peril), tubes (from Tube It or Lose It), and hammers (from Pokey Pummel).
    • At one point, Squared Away doesn't feature Golden Thwomps for the winning players, and none of the losers are chased by a hoard of Thwomps after the minigame ends.
  12. You can't play the item minigames in Free Play mode, so you have no opportunity to practice the new timing.
  13. Like its predecessor, The Top 100, some minigames have wrong titles such as Bumper Balls in Mario Party 2, although this one is excusable since this one has variants than the original, which has only one variant.
    • Additionally, the tracks "Going for the Coins" and "Know What I Mean?" still have their misnomers from The Top 100, and all of the Mario Party 3 tracks previously in The Top 100 are still known by their wrong names.
  14. All of the post-N64 instalments (with the exception of Mario Party 6) are represented by fewer mini games than in The Top 100.

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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