Mario Party 5

THE GOOD:
Mini-games, Boards, Characters, Graphics, Bonus's, well pretty much everything!!

THE BAD:
No complaints from me:)

SUMMARY:
I went to Target hoping to buy Super Mario Advance 4, but to my suprise, Mario Party 5 was already out!! I couldn't miss this chance so I bought MP5 instead. Good thing I did because as soon as I started Playing I was blown away.
The graphics and sound surpass MP4 like you wouldn't believe. The Super Duel mode is a new and exiting game which lets you battle other players in your own custom battle machine. The Bonus mode lets you play either Card Game,Ice Hockey, or Beach Volleyball. Mini-game mode has many new ways to battle it out with your friends. And how could I forget Story Mode, where you must rid Dream World of Bowser's newest children,Koopa Kid Red,Koopa Kid Green, and Koopa Kid Blue.
All of these additions and enhancments make this Mario Party the best yet and definitly worth your money.

If you ever played any of the original Mario Party games on the N64, then you'll probably know what to expect from Mario Party 5. The games have enjoyed almost yearly updates, but it's one of those series, like Fifa perhaps, where each year's update isn't essential. Knowing that, I'll say to you now that if you own or have played to death Mario Party 4 for the GameCube, you'll find nothing new here. I'll tell you what, I like Mario Party. It's a game that focuses on the multiplayer, and a game that is nearly unparalleled in this field. You see, the reason it's so great, is that it takes nearly no skill to get going. I just hate it when I whip all my mates at my multiplayer games simply because they're mine and I've already played the single player mode to death. With Mario Party, the tables turn and veterans to the game have little advantage to the newbies. So what's the game all about then? Well Mario Party is, in essence, a board game. A variety of themed boards show up in...

THE GOOD:
THE GRAPHICS, THE MUSIC, THE MINI-GAMES, THE BOARD-MAPS, THE NEW PLAYABLE CHARACTERS AND THE STORY.

THE BAD:
THE STORY MODE AND THAT DK ISN'T A PLAYABLE CHARACTER.

SUMMARY:
MARIO PARTY FANS, THIS IS YOUR TIME TO REJOICE! THIS IS THE NEWEST VERSION OF MARIO PARTY AND YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS FOUR-PLAYER PARTY! THE STORY IS GREAT! YOU HAVE TO GO AROUND A BUNCH OF GAME BOARDS AND TAKE THE KOOPA KID'S COINS BY FIGHTING THEM IN DUELS! YES, THEY BROUGHT BACK DUEL MINI-GAMES! IN PARTY MODE, YOU CAN PLAY AS 3 NEW CHARACTERS: TOAD, BOO AND BABY BOWSER! BUT YOU CAN'T PLAY AS THESE CHARACTERS IN STORY MODE. THE OBJECTIVE OF PARTY MODE IS THE SAME: TO OBTAIN THE MOST STARS AND COINS! YOU CAN PLAY ON 6 NEW GAME BORADS, INCLUDING PIRATE AND FUTURE DREAM FROM MARIO PARTY 2, AND PLAY AS MUCH AS 50 TURNS, IN MULTIPLES OF 5. THERE ARE ALSO 70 BRAND NEW MINI-GAMES AS WELL! SOME ARE SIMPLE LIKE FLOWER SHOWER, WHERE YOU MUST COLLECT THE MOST FLOWERS...

THE GOOD:
70 new mini-games as well as 7 new lands= 1 exciting game.

THE BAD:
Too short of a story mode. DK isn't a playable character.

SUMMARY:
70 new mini-games are just the border of this game. Even though some are a little similar to some in past Mario Party's, it really doesn't matter as long it is matched up with the original kind. Some of the new games are Submarathon, Mario Can-Can, and Late Night Fright. Overall the mini games are a 4.9/5.

6 different modes have also built this game with newer modes inside. Story mode is the only reason why this game did not get a 5/5. It is too short. 3 Koopa Kids try to take your coins from you but you have to steal all of the coins from each Koopa Kid before 15 turns are up. It is not too hard to defeat Bowser in the final battle which is a whole lot easier to games in the past that featured him.

Party Mode is an instant success for this game. Toy Dream, Sweet Dream, and Pirate Dream...

At first I was really happy because I got Mario Party 5 on Christmas. I started playing, and at first I thought it was ok, but after two days I began to see that Nintendo is running out of ideas:

·There are no more items and shops; the only items you can get are capsules which you can use on the different dices.

·If you want to use a capsule on yourself you'll have to pay a lot of coins.

·The story mode is too easy and isn't a great challenge...

·The Minigames are no longer so original like in the other Mario Party games. Most of them are boring and way too easy.

·You can no longer play with Donkey Kong, so if he was your favourite character say good bye.

These are the main problems of this game, but there are also some good things:

·You can play now with three new characters: Toad, Boo and Baby Bowser.

·There are some extra minigames which ARE original in the Super-Bonus-Mode: Beach Volleyball, Ice Hockey and Card...

THE GOOD:
Mario Party 5 really forces fun down your throat. Everything is joyous and colorful and wonderful and magical in the dream realm where this board/action game hybrid takes place, and various talking stars tell you how to play the game. You will love it—because it is joyous and colorful and wonderful and magical, and you are ordered to love it! The single-player Story mode has been improved (mainly by consolidating the A.I. turns and speeding things up), but it's not as much fun as two-on-two team games. Actually, four live people is the only way to go—there are so many random elements (twists of fate, stolen items, funky power-ups) that strategy almost doesn't matter.

THE BAD:
I thought the boards were small and very easy to get stars on and the story mode was horrible as usual for the mario party series.

SUMMARY:
Great game and hope you buy it.

THE GOOD:
Fun mini-games

Decent story mode, despite alot of people saying it sucks

A couple of cool unlockables

Can play as Toad

THE BAD:
They replaced the items with a stupid capsule system

The red, green, and blue miniature Bowsers suck, and aren't true Koopa Kids, despite what they call themselves.

Some of the boards aren't that great

SUMMARY:
Well, I can't see too many bad things about this game. It has plenty of fun mini-games, and fun board maps, with the exception of maybe one or two. Even story mode is fun, as you get a chance to be able to beat up some loser Koopa Kid imposters. The capsule system sucked, but other than that, I think this is a good game. Although, if you're not a big fan of the Mario Party series, you may want to rent this first. Either way, still a good game overall, as I said before.

Mario and his friends return for another round of Mario Party, this time with more unoriginal mini-games, bland music, terrible story mode and and a lazy, uncreative, atmosphere that breaks no new grounds in the series! Let the party begin!


Gameplay - 6.0 - Exactly the same as Mario Party 4. Each character has a turn, rolls the dice and lands on the appropiate space. After everyone has their turn, a mini-game event appears. You either win coins or not, repeat. The only major change I've seen is the capsules, which adds a stragetic element to the game, replacing items. You have to pay to use the capsules, and you get them haphazardly. Stars still cost 20 coins, and half of this game is based on pure luck, so no matter how skilled you are, some sick twist of fate could have you land in 4th place just like that. The mini-games are dull and many of them are taken
directly from the previous games.


Controls - 8.5 - The controls are fairly simple and Hudson Soft...

THE GOOD:
The graphics. Multiplayer, and Super Duel mode.

THE BAD:
Mini-games, gameplay is good when you first play it but, it gets boring and repitive.

SUMMARY:

Graphics 8/10 Its the same as Mario Party 4's graphics, its good enough. Nothing special for the graphics though.

Multiplayer 9/10 The multiplayer keeps me from not liking this game. Its similar to Mario Party 4's multiplayer. IMO

Story 4/10 The story isn't good. Bowser trying to take over all the boards you play in sounds intresting at first but, the story doesn't advance through out the game.

Mini-games 3/10 All you do in most of them is you have to get the best score or press the same button(s) They don't require skill just like the ones in Mario Party 4 and others.

Super Duel Mode 7/10 In this mode you can collect points (You get them by playing mini-games) and exchange them for parts for a vehicle. You can use it against your friend's custom...

THE GOOD:
---Multiplayer.
---Super Duel Mode.
---Something to keep you busy.
---Toad, Boo and Baby Bowser as playable characters.
---Star Spirits from PM1 as 3D stars.

THE BAD:
---DK isn't playable.
---Story Mode, which I consider the shortest Monopoly game ever.
---Graphics.

SUMMARY:
Gameplay: 7/10.
Play it to see why.

Story: 5/10.
Stupid kiddish story.

Graphics: 3/10.
Everyone must hate this game's graphics. It's bad for your eyes. Still, you should play it.

Sidequests: 8/10.
Keeps you running until you must go to bed.

Characters: 6/10.
Same old characters, besides Toad, Baby Bowser and Boo being in and DK being out.

Difficulty: Medium/Extreme.
Well, choose Medium for that. But Hard, just play the game for hours and hours and then try that.

Overall: 7/10.
I suggest renting this first, just to make sure.