I want to take a minute here to say something completely outlandish: Mario Party 2 is one of the best games of all time. It has one glaring flaw named Mystery Land, and a lot of lesser flaws like Mecha Marathon and Abandon Ship being pretty bad mini-games, but a rather clunky mess of a board game is one of the best games of all time. Why do I feel this way about Mario Party 2, specifically? Because it’s one of the few games that can get the concept of ‘luck’ perfectly right.
Grab your friends for more anarchic boardgame madness in Mario's second party release
Mario Party 1 has been regarded as one of the worst Mario titles ever: Nintendo did a better job with Mario Party 2.
The greatest "drinking beer with your friends and like 1 of their kids is there too" series of all time deserves more respect.
This week, Game Informer published their review for Super Mario Party. They described the game as something that’s fun to play.
What you may not know is 18 years ago, when Game Informer reviewed Mario Party and Mario Party 2, they gave both games very negative reviews.
How did Nintendo respond to these negative reviews? They sent a framed poster to Game Informer.
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Not sure about the OG Mario Parties. I did play, 5 (?) on the Gamecube and it was definitely a blast. An interesting and fun take on a video game/board game. Best with friends but even alone it had it's value for being fun; albeit limited.
1 to 3 are the best Mario Party games. 4 was good but they started to fall off from that game going forward. 5 was good to though
Mario Party 1,2,3 are classics......I can't recall anybody we played with back in the day not liking these games.
Some critics think it's their job to be negative.
Eh i really enjoyed the first game on the 64, but as with everything else.. each to his own. I'm not fussed on Smash brothers or Pokemon either but plenty seem to like them.
People just love to bash at the end of the day. I don't pay attention to game reviews all that much unless they are all rated low, like in the 4-5 range, same with films.
The first two were the best ones, at least in my opinion. The first was an interesting, and skin losing, experience. The second outing really expanded on the formula and delivered some fun mini games. Nevertheless, I appreciate Nintendo's humor, or Howard Lincoln's rather, and Game Informer's "glowing" opinion.
It is my opinion too. To be honest I have not played all Mario Party games but almost all 1 to 9. I dodn't have Wii U, so I don't play the 10th of the series. So, 1 and 2 were the best.
The only problem with those games was the N64 control stick fatigue of the controller. I had to repair it very often.
