Mario Party 8

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Mario Party 8 Review

Gameplay: The Mario Party franchise certainly has grown up. Instead of having the regular board games where you just circled around a massive landscape saving up coins for the 20 coin star space that the first game had, there are a variety of boards as well as playing styles to choose from. Some of these levels are extraordinarily creative, such as my favorite level where you're on a train, and the cars sometimes switch around and stuff, but others still suffer from that same-old, boring original style. In addition to all of the creative levels, the game also provides many characters to choose from. You could practically be any Mario character you wanted to. I personally like Blooper, the squid. I would have liked to see maybe Baby Bowser as a playable character, but I'm fine with the current selection. Mario Party 8 also introduces candy to the game. What is candy? Candy is just items you can use against your opponents. The only thing I don't like about candy is that some of them just feel cheap because they're so powerful. I'm looking at you Vampire Candy. In regards to how chance plays a role in how the game lays out, who cares? Mario Party was originally designed to be an electronic board game that you could play with your friends on your TV. Board games rely a lot on chance, so if anything, chance makes the game more authentic and exciting, but it destroys any chance of having a fun single-player experience. If your friends come to your house often, this is the game for you. Another thing that the game is lacking is online which probably would have sucked anyway because Nintendo blows at online, so I guess it doesn't matter all that much.

Graphics: The graphics in Mario Party 8 are phenomenal. They're quite possibly the best graphics in any Mario game thus far. The water which is in some of the levels looks awesome. An awesome addition to the game is that there is stuff going on in the background of the board. Take the train level for instance. The train is actually moving, so you see mountains and trees whizzing by in the background. The passengers of the train move around and talk to each other. It's just really cool. Also, the characters just look awesome, as do the minigames. They're very sharp, and the colors are really bright.

Sound: Do I have blood coming out of my ears? The music is so terrible it's not even funny. No, it's not funny at all. It's annoying and chirpy. It sucks. The characters only have like 8 different sound effects. Ugh...

Value: This is an awesome multi-player game that will last you a long time, but how long can the fun last with only 6 levels and about 100 mini-games?

Here's a word of advice: wait until the price drops. It's good, but not $50 good.

Mario Party 8 Review was wii ' d by taytizzle.

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