Super Mario Party Jamboree Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)
Super Mario Party Jamboree Review, Join a jam-packed celebration in Super Mario Party Jamboree for Nintendo Switch! Grab family and friends and get moving and grooving on seven new and returning boards. Battle it out in more minigames than ever before, and slice, dice, and assemble in new motion-based game modes! Play with Party Rules when you want a more light-hearted Mario Party experience. Flip to Pro Rules when you want to minimize the role of luck to focus on skill.
Super Mario Party Jamboree Review Pros:
- Decent HD -graphics.
- 5.3GB Download size.
- Own in-game achievements and they pop up when earned.
- Mini-game party gameplay.
- Twenty initial characters to play as with two unlockable ones.
- Pro controller support.
- The game supports up to four local players on one Nintendo Switch console.
- Party Plaza is your hub where you will always start and set up games from here and you have islands around you.
- Opening tutorial then you get pop-ups before an event along with the ability to practice beforehand.
- Motion Island is all Joy-Con movement-based games.
- Spooky Island is a Bowser challenge where you work as an 8-player team or you take part in 20-player race events.
- Mini-game bay houses all the mini-games
- Mario Party Island is the Mario Party game mode.
- The map lets you quickly pick an island and will show if it’s Joy-Con compatible.
- In-game cutscenes and interactions.
- Seven facilities in the plaza – a reaction shop, card shop, music shop, data house which also has your gameplay records, rankings monitor including online rankings, antenna that lets you play online, and the main party place.
- Online lets you join or host a room.
- Host room is for either 4-player or 8-player rooms and you can choose whether you want a passcode on the room.
- When playing with a controller or Joy-Con you can choose if you want to play any motion games.
- A full 3D game world with camera control.
- Third-person character viewpoint.
- The party planner Trek is the story-based game mode, you still do the whole Mario Party thing along with mini-games.
- Collect mini stars from events and every 30 gives a prize.
- Earn and buy decorations so you can customize your Plaza.
- In the story in between stages, you can freely run around the world that is presented as a game board.
- Optional side quests can be found and done for some rewards.
- Opening introduction to each event.
- You can replay events in the story mode.
- Completely playable in single-player.
- A lot of fun to play.
- Opponents in a single player are randomized so it always feels new in a way.
- Do events, and tasks, and find items to expand the game world in the single-player.
- Simple controls.
- Get a fishing rod to fish for coins and mini stars, you can do it in events as well as the game world.
- You can skip any cutscene you have seen before.
- The Mario Party mode is the traditional roll of the dice and moving around, doing mini-games, earning coins, and getting stars with the most stars wins.
- Jamboree buddies are special as they can give you cool abilities (they are powerful too), to get one you have to meet them on the board and win them in a mini-game with other players.
- Mario Party lets you play against CPU and online.
- Four initial Mario Party boards – Goomba Lagoon, Mega Wigglers Tree Party, Rainbow Galleria, and Roll em Raceway. Each has a difficulty rating of 1 to 5 stars.
- 3 CPU difficulties – Easy, normal, and hard.
- You can set all CPUs to the same difficulty or you can do them individually.
- Game speed for Mario Party can be normal or fast.
- Choose who you face in Mario Party when it’s CPU.
- Handicap setting for each player IN Mario Party regardless if they are CPU or online.
- Online lets you set if motion games appear, the board you play, and the game length.
- Decorate your own plaza with decorations you win/find/buy in the game.
- I really enjoy the story mode as it gives me the impression that I have friends and that I can still see so much of the game.
Super Mario Party Jamboree Review Cons:
- The unskippable opening cutscene goes on for a while.
- No real voice work, just characters’ grunts and squeaks.
- With so many mini-games, it takes a bit of time to get used to them all.
- There are no game difficulty options for the single-player.
- Couldn’t see a way to invite friends into a Mario Party online when setting up a game online.
- Online could do with a quick match option or something as you are locked into one board or setting each time.
- I didn’t see a huge amount of content from older games which I know players are always asking for.
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Super Mario Party Jamboree:
Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
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