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![](minigame.jpg "One of the minigames: trace the image with a jackhammer. The one on the upper right clearly misunderstood the assignment... ")
The biggest pain points of _Mario Party_ games are laid bare when lacking a proper party: when I play with just my wife or a friend, two AI players still make it in the game because everything is based on 4 players. Even though the animation can be sped up, it's never fun to loose from an AI, and this being a bit of a luck-based game, it's certainly possible. You can also skip the boards entirely and focus on just the minigames, but without something that holds it together, playing minigame after game grows stale pretty quickly.
The biggest pain points of _Mario Party_ games are laid bare when lacking a proper party: when I play with just my wife or a friend, two AI players still make it in the game because everything is based on 4 players. Even though the animation can be sped up, it's never fun to loose from an AI, and this being a bit of a luck-based game, it's certainly possible. You can also skip the boards entirely and focus on just the minigames, but without something that holds it together, playing minigame after minigame grows stale pretty quickly.
Another problem that becomes apparent after hour 10 or so is the lack of board variation. There are only five present in the game. For a full-priced `€60` Nintendo game, it could be argued that more boards packed into the released base game would have been welcome. MP2 contains 5 boards (+1 later in the game) and 65 minigames, MP3 5 boards and 70 games, MP4 6 boards and 60 games, while this one comes with 5 boards and 100 games---not that far off the average, but none of them are new, so why not include at least 6 or even 7? Even the amount of playable character is quite limited.
Another problem that becomes apparent after hour 10 or so is the lack of board variation. There are only five present in the game. For a full-priced `€60` Nintendo game, it could be argued that more boards packed into the released base game would have been welcome. MP2 contains 5 boards (+1 later in the game) and 65 minigames, MP3 5 boards and 70 games, MP4 6 boards and 60 games, while this one comes with 5 boards and 100 games---not that far off the average, but none of them are new, so why not include at least 6 or even 7? Even the amount of playable characters is quite limited.
Even stranger, there is no DLC content available, and people are still speculating as to why---and hoping this will change in the near future. Perhaps this month, since it'll be a year old? I doubt it'll be released as free content.
What's even more surprising: one year later, there is currently still no DLC content available, and people are speculating as to why---and hoping this will change in the near future. Perhaps this month, since it'll be a year old? I doubt it'll be released as free content.
![](postcard.jpg "You can customize a postcard that summarizes your favorite parts of the game. The backgrounds are unlockable, god knows why.")