Mario Party 4

Mario Party 4 is the fourth installment of the Mario Party series, it was developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo in October 2002. It was also the first Mario Party game for the GameCube.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Great graphics, even for GameCube standards.
 * 2) As before stated, it's the first of the four Mario Party games for the GameCube.
 * 3) Catchy soundtrack like Loud and Sweet, Full of Vigor, Play Mini-Games (the song when viewing the rules of a minigame), and You Did It! (the jingle when someone wins a minigame).
 * 4) Great and sometimes memorable minigames like Booksquirm and Dungeon Duos.
 * 5) The hosts celebrate the player's character's birthday in Story Mode.
 * 6) The battle minigame Bowser's Bigger Blast is a remake of Bowser's Big Blast from Mario Party 2, which can be a throwback to Mario Party 2 fans.
 * 7) The dialogue can be humorous at times, an example is when the rules of Darts of Doom is being explained, a Koopa Kid says "The player with the least points..." and then the fan holding Koopa Kid says "Gets a back rub!"
 * 8) You get rewarded for getting a certain time or score in minigames.
 * 9) You can play as the hosts, Bowser and Koopa Kid, but only in the minigame Beach Volley Folley.
 * 10) You can play as Daisy and Waluigi in Story Mode, which you couldn't do in the previous game.
 * 11) For the first time in Mario Party history, you can play as a team of 2 in Party Mode.
 * 12) The boards are now fully rendered in 3D.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The Chance Time (referred to in-game as Reversal of Fortune) is wonky.
 * 2) All the Bowser minigames are luck-based.
 * 3) No duel minigames. Although story minigames are closer, you can only duel the hosts in Story Mode and you can only play them when you win a board.
 * 4) No new playable characters. All of them are from the previous game.
 * 5) Like Mario Party 3, Luigi has blue as his color code as it should have been green to make it more accurate, whereas Yoshi could have been lime green.
 * 6) * Also, Daisy has yellow, Wario has purple and Waluigi has black as their color codes too as Daisy's color code should've been orange to also make it more accurate while Wario and Waluigi could've been yellow and purple respectively.

Reception
Mario Party 4 on Metacritic received mixed to positive reception from critics, and positive reception from gamers. It has a score of 70/100 from critics, and 7.6/10 from gamers.

Trivia

 * The minigame Bob-Omb Breakers returns as a puzzle minigame in Mario Party DS, along with other puzzle games from 3 through 7.

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