

Mario Party Superstars consists of a variety of minigames from all across the history of the series (with no motion control minigames), and five boards from the first three Mario Party games.

To build the economy, after all four players move a minigame starts, and the winner(s) of the minigame will earn coins, so generally you will want to perform well in minigames so you’ll have enough cash to pay the star dealer. Stars are the most valuable currency in the game because the person who has the most of them when all turns are up is the winner.

Player movement is dictated by dice rolls, and your primary goal is to build up coins that you can spend to acquire stars by traveling to wherever Toadette is on the board. If you don’t know what Mario Party is, it’s a game series quite possibly forged in the bowels of hell by the gods of chaos. I fell off hard with the series after Mario Party 8- so a Mario Party game that consists of throwbacks to the halcyon days of the series is a big hit for me. Mario Party 6, for example, was a game I never owned but I knew I’d always have a great time playing- the board selection and day/night system made for some great, chaotic fun. After the 64 came and went, I wound up only really playing the series during get togethers with friends of mine who owned the later titles. I am one of those people who played Mario Party heavily as a kid… on the Nintendo 64. Thankfully, Mario Party Superstars is a step in the right direction for everyone’s favorite Nintendo series to hate.
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For several iterations they threw everybody into the same car, severely hampering board play (in a series that originally attempted to emulate board games), and then the next Mario Party that didn’t have everyone ridin’ dirty had overly simplistic boards with no way to play a full game with other people online for something to the tune of 2.5 years. Now, I know what you’re thinking: “It’s Mario Party, how bad could it really be?” Well, actually, extremely so. In my case, it was picking up Mario Party Superstars to play with guests visiting just before Christmas. One interesting thing about the holiday season is that people are more willing to travel, more willing to decorate with the colors red and green, and are more willing to shell out cash for unnecessary goods and services. Welcome to Save State, where we party hard, but shred harder.
