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Super Mario Party takes the players to the Mushroom Land for the party of a lifetime. Try one of over 80 minigames and have loads of fun outsmarting, outracing, or out-pie-to-the-faceing your friends. The game offers both local and online multiplayer, so you don't have to leave your home to have some fun with your best pals.

Super Mario Party

Super Mario Party is a party video game developed by NDcube and published by Nintendo. The game takes the players to the familiar world of Mushroom land where they can experience a variety of party games, including kart racing, mini-golf, and more. The game consists of two modes in which players compete against each other solo or in teams. Super Mario Party was received with positive reviews and went on to win several awards. Critics praised the multiplayer party experience as well as the use of JoyCon controls.

Party in Mushroom Land

The core gameplay of Super Mario party focuses on the players competing against each other in various minigames. The players start their adventure by choosing the mode they want to play in. The standard Party Mode has each player compete against one another. In Partner Party mode, the players form teams.

SMP features various playable characters, including Mario and Luigi, Princesses Peach and Daisy, Bowser, and others. The game then takes the players on the board, where they take turns in moving towards the finish line, completing the minigames and collecting stars.

Up to four players can play the game locally, and for the first time in the series history, through online multiplayer mode. In multiplayer, the participants can choose from over 80 minigames and try their luck against each other in Online Mariothon mode, trying to get the highest score in a series of five random minigames.

The games Mario plays

In Super Mario Party, the players can enjoy more than 80 minigames. Some of them are the series' mainstays while others ere made especially with the Nintendo Switch controls in mind. These include Trike Harder, a racing game in which the players try to reach the finish line on tricycles. Other available games include Slapparazzi, where the players' task is to gain as many points as they can by posing to a picture; Precision Gardening, in which the players' have to water a flower to make it grow faster; and Pie Hard, where the players' teams compete in a time-honored game of "throwing a pie into the opponents face". Each of the games can be played in both local and online multiplayer.

Reception

Super Mario Party received positive critical reception. Reviews praised the series' "return to the roots", a multitude of different minigames, and overall fun factor of the title. The game was nominated to several awards, winning Best Family Game at 2018 Gamescom Awards, Fan Favorite Family-Friendly Multiplayer Game at Gamer's Choice Awards in the same year, and 2019 National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards for Game, Franchise Family.

Key features

• A party game like no others.
• Return to the series classic roots.
• Over 84 minigames to enjoy.
• Online an local multiplayer.
• Free-for-all and team vs. team modes.