 "Mario Party Falls to the Depths" | 2009-10-19 |
| - Reviewed By User: AAHIBEYQEUO4B |
Mario Party, a video game that plays board-game style inside a video game with Mario characters, has been a great franchise that has brought happiness to many gamers and non-gamers alike, lots of profit to Nintendo, lots of innovation, and, now, lots of disappointment.
Mario Party used to keep me and my friends and my family playing for hours on end and have lots of fun trying to beat each other, stay ahead, and beat each other to a pulp in scores and winning by longshots in mini-games. Now, there's almost no innovation. We've seen it all before. Sure, some of the mini-games (which is the majority of the game) are new, but no stunning new ideas. The controls on some of the games are funky, in particular "Flip the Chimp". How anyone plays this game, we have no idea. The idea of the game is have your robotic monkey climb a pole, and flip him from left to right to avoid having his head hit by coconuts by swinging your wii remote from side to side. Plain and simple, it DOESN'T WORK. Also, rowing a boat to get to the finish line first. Just as it sounds, you row with your Wii Remote. Plain and simple, it DOESN'T WORK.
Even the graphics don't present anything very good for the Wii.
A mediocre game. This one kept my family playing for only a few days. If you want Mario Party, and you've never played before, this one's a good place to start. Then work backwards towards the better games. |
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 "Great Game, Great Seller" | 2009-10-19 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3D2SGE8BBDJ5G |
| We use the Mario Party games on our Family game night and they are a big hit. Anyone looking for a head to head competition in a safe environment should try this game. |
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| "The apple has fallen very far from the tree" | 2009-10-18 |
| - Reviewed By calegend |
I played this last night with a friend, and I went in with very high expectations based upon my previous experience with Mario Party 6 (which I consider the gold standard). What a disappointment. My friend hasn't played the Mario Party series before so I was embarrassed after we finished a 10-round match, having spoken so highly of the game. It was probably my mistake to assume that MP 8 would be a worthy follow-up to its predecessors.
My thoughts, in bullet point form:
- The emcee is no longer the sun/moon character but this bizarro hat and duck (?) combo. Both of them have eyes and mouths and the two of them trade off when talking to the player. I don't understand why the developer felt the need to insert this annoying new character--it's not even drawn to look like a cute or clever Nintendo creation, just some mash-up of weird parts.
- The games are not creative or whimsical at all. There's one where you drive go-karts around to pop balloons; a 1v3 minigame where you are seated in weird bird-shaped planes and you try to avoid having your 2 ballons from getting shot; a game where you just shake your controller as hard as possible to flag down a ship to rescue you from a deserted island. When you're playing with a group of people, none of the minigames makes you and your friends want to shout in excitement or defeat after a close and challenging match--there's just no feeling of thrill or satisfaction.
- To a previous reviewer's point, the game only makes incidental use of the wiimote and its full capabilities. The majority of the games have you holding the controller old-school style, where your left hand controls up-down-left-right and the right hand hits the 1 or 2 buttons.
I hope the publisher comes up with some new ideas for the next installment in the series, where the wiimote's full range of motions is incorporated into the minigames. I probably would have given MP 8 a worse rating, if it weren't for the fact that I bought it used on Amazon for $[...], including shipping. For those considering a purchase, I recommend that you also buy it used. |
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| "Fun game, but not one of the better Mario Parties" | 2009-10-15 |
| - Reviewed By poorcollegestudent00000 |
I am a HUGE fan of these Mario Party games.
I think i had more expectations for this game since the last gens Mario Parties are quite often fun, especially part 6 & 7. This Mario party was fine, but i would much rather play the older versions with a newer control scheme. Even playing the older ones with the older control scheme would be fine.
IF YOU CAN GET THIS CHEAP... knock yourself out. |
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 "It's Party Time!" | 2009-08-24 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2ZFYB6WY3RG93 |
I've owned this game for so long, and I still love it. It's not like I'm addicted to it or anything like that, just it's fun to play some party games once in a while. Mario Party 8 doesn't fail to pick up the path that the previous Mario Party's left for it. This time, you get to use the Wii-Mote! There are really only two down-sides to this game.
1) If you don't have people to play with, think about picking this game up. Single player finishes quickly (although the Bowser place is really hard)and if you want to enjoy party games with three computers, then you might want to set them to different difficulties. Hard/Very Hard would be too easy, but Easy/Normal would be too hard. Try setting the opposing team with the same difficulty as your team.
2) I love the duel mini-games, but you only get to play them when you use Duelo Candy, and there's a lot of them that I like (Lasso, Card, Construction, etc.). It sort of sucks that I have to use a candy and be near some one just to play those mini-games.
That's all of the negatives I have. Try thinking about previous Mario Party's, then think about using the Wii-Mote to interact in most of the mini-games. If you haven't owned previous Mario Party's and have people to play with, then go for it! |
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| "A Little Disappointed" | 2009-08-18 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1QEX1X1LE2B5K |
| I've only played two of the courses but neither were very fun. One was a one way path to the stars and the other you only earned stars as you "invested" in hotels. Some of the games were cute but I like past versions much better! |
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