Or it can turn your family into rivals!
Super Mario Party for the Nintendo Switch is the newest addition to the Mario Party franchise. It is a really fun party style game where players race around a game board to collect stars and play tons of mini games against each other in the process.
I have played a few of the Mario Party games, and each one is pretty similar when it comes to the objective, but there is so much to this new one that makes it stand out from the others.
On this one, each character you choose has a normal dice block and a dice block that is individual to them. Some of the bonuses for the different dice blocks are a wider variety of numbers that you can move to more coins. There are also some downfalls to using the specific dice blocks. You may lose coins and some are limited on how many high numbers are on the dice.
There are about 80 mini games that are randomly chosen and each one is pretty interesting. Some of them you play a free for all 4 vs 4, team up for a 2 vs 2, or three people play against the other person. The games make pretty good use of the Joy Con motion controls, which add a different variety of game play.
On top of the normal game where you run around the board collecting coins and racing to get the most stars, there are a few other game modes to play as well. After my wife, daughter and I finished playing a match, we played the Sound Stage game, which is a series of rhythm based games where you have to swing or shake the controller to the beat and collect points as you go.
This was a pretty fun game mode, which I dominated of course. We played it a few times and after we finished the first set of games, we could play an encore, where things sped up and became a lot of fun. We went from hitting baseballs to smacking moles with a hammer to trying to keep up with the music as we struck different poses.
Overall, this is a pretty fun game to play with friends or family. I had to go out and buy an extra set of Joy Con controllers so we could all play. I have been wanting to grab another set of controllers, and this was the perfect excuse to do so.
One of Nintendo's greatest strengths is coming up with fun and innovative ways for you to play games together and Super Mario Party is a perfect example of how they do that. There is a lot of variety in this version of the Mario Party games, that it will take us a while to experience it all, but we are looking forward to spending some time gaming together as a family to experience it all.
Thank you for taking the time to check out my review of the Super Mario Party game. If you have a Nintendo Switch, I would highly recommend this game. It is a ton of fun and a great way to create some awesome gaming memories as a family.