Mario Party Superstars

Mario Party Superstars is the twenty-fifth installment of the Mario Party franchise and the second Mario Party game of the Nintendo Switch.

Why It Is The "TRUE" Ultimate Mario Party

 * 1) This game takes the same concept as Mario Party: The Top 100, but massively improves upon it, with 5 N64 boards, 105 amazing minigames (5 of which are item or Bowser Jr. minigames and it is a long comeback after Mario Party 3), customizations, classic music, and an online multiplayer, so this is how people celebrate Mario Party series (as a whole) with this. It's what The Top 100 should've been.
 * 2) All of the minigames are faithfully recreated from the original games (or redesigned such as Honeycomb Havoc, where there are soil from (Mario Party 2) and grass from (The Top 100) combined), and unlike The Top 100, they all now have the correct music tracks from their game of origin.
 * 3) The AI is now improved in this game, even though they are somewhat dumb.
 * 4) There are many fan-favorite minigames compared to the mediocre 3DS game.
 * 5) There are some new and expressive animations for each characters, such as Rosalina twirling with her wand and Waluigi biting his own rose.
 * 6) Birdo makes a comeback in this game (Birdo's return is especially notable since the last time she was a playable character was in Mario Party 9).
 * 7) There are minigame modes such as:
 * 8) *In Tag Match, players can compete in a series of 2 vs 2 minigames and the majority of stars (3, 5, or 10) will be the winner.
 * 9) *In Trio Challenge, the player must compete five 1 vs 3 minigames to achieve ranks when they did it perfectly.
 * 10) *In Coin Battle, players must collect coins when playing minigames.
 * 11) *In Survival, players must win minigames and collect global rankings (this is exclusive to online play).
 * 12) *In Daily Challenge, the player must compete in certain minigames to complete challenges (this is also exclusive to online play like Survival mode).
 * 13) *And in Sports and Puzzles, the player must play special minigames since The Top 100, they can save puzzle minigames (Block Star and Stick & Spin only) when they lose a minigame.
 * 14) Unlike Super Mario Party, you can play this game with button controls using the Pro Controller or Joy-Con controllers, in the Switch's handheld mode, or on the Nintendo Switch Lite system.
 * 15) 105 minigames to play from. Also, the player can choose any variant of minigames like Bumper Balls and Flash Forward.
 * 16) Colorful graphics that is a major step up from the N64 (and to extents, GCN and Wii Mario Party games) trilogy (due to the boards originating from here). The graphics can be compared to that of a high-quality animated CGI movie.
 * 17) *The minigames have realistic settings and the objects with eyes and mouths disappeared, reflecting its aforementioned themes.
 * 18) Constellations return since Mario Party 9 and it is based on missions, clearing it will reveal an object. After completing 50 achievements (optional for 10 online achievements), fireworks will appear in the night sky.
 * 19) The credits is a book, in which the player touches old photos to become new ones, touching a Boo (in Mario Party 5) or Donkey Kong (in Mario Party 10) will hear their voices too.
 * 20) Stickers appear for the first time in this game, where they click the joystick to choose then press the A, Y, X, L, or R button to see them to others. Unlike Crash Boom Bang!, where stickers are repetitive in minigames, these stickers aren't as repetitive and they are turned off when playing a minigame.
 * 21) There is a way to change turns in "Mario Party" mode since Mario Party DS.
 * 22) Like Banana Mania, It brought the series back to its former glory after the ND Cube Mario Party games that came after it received mixed-to-negative reception from fans due to the implementation of cars (in 9 and 10) and the 1-6 dice blocks, which is an amazing way.
 * 23) This game allows you to play as Donkey Kong on returning Mario Party 5 - 9 mini-games (installments of the series where he was a NPC) and Birdo on Mario Party 1 - 6 and 10.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The fact that there are ten playable characters, which is disappointing, considering Super Mario Party (the previous Mario Party game) had twenty playable characters.
 * 2) There are infamous minigames such as Tug-o-War, Cast Aways, and Hide-and-Sneak that return with the former two not only with the risk of skin irritation, but also with the risk of Joy-Con drift. The latter being the worst lucky minigame as the player have a chance to lose when playing as solo and it will rarely win the Trio Challenge Stage 4, especially during Master difficulty, similar what happened to them when the player plays Deck Hands in The Top 100.
 * 3) * In the former two, NDcube placed a warning for players not to use the palm of their hand to prevent irritation to their skin and/or damage to the sticks.
 * 4) There are no other N64 or GCN boards, although there may be DLC in future updates.
 * 5) No ending cutscene unlike Super Mario Party where there is an ending after the player collects all the gems.
 * 6) Lack of in-depth content.
 * 7) Typo: When you get the item "Cursed Dice Block", its description  misspells "dice" as "die". This is yet to be fixed.
 * 8) There are difficult missions such as "Stick and Spin Boss", which can be obtained after reaching Level 99 because it is almost impossible to complete levels 91-95, due to being the hardest levels in the game.
 * 9) Stickers can be annoying and repetitive at times, though not all the time unless it happens by accident.
 * 10) There are some minigames that do not change their design, including victory animation settings, such as Ice Rink Risk and Bounce n' Trounce, where the designs are taken from the third Mario Party minigame.
 * 11) *The Ice Rink Risk and Bounce n' Trounce from the Top 100 version, which came out nearly 4 years ago, were better designed than these.
 * 12) *Some minigames don't have any color-coded items like flags (from Paths of Peril), tubes (from Tube It or Lose It), and hammers (from Pokey Pummel).
 * 13) *At one point, Squared Away doesn't feature Golden Thwomps for the winning players, and none of the losers are chased by a hoard of Thwomps after the minigame ends.
 * 14) You can't play the item minigames in Free Play mode, so you have no opportunity to practice the new timing.
 * 15) Like its predecessor, The Top 100, some minigames have wrong titles such as Bumper Balls in Mario Party 2, although this one is excusable since this one has variants than the original, which has only one variant.
 * 16) *Additionally, the tracks "Going for the Coins" and "Know What I Mean?" still have their misnomers from The Top 100, and all of the Mario Party 3 tracks previously in The Top 100 are still known by their wrong names.
 * 17) All of the post-N64 instalments (with the exception of Mario Party 6) are represented by fewer mini-games than in The Top 100.

Trivia

 * This, WarioWare: Get It Together!, and Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania are the only games that first appeared in the Nintendo Direct E3 2021 to have a front box art filled with gameplays (MP Superstars' minigames, Get It Together's microgames, and Banana Mania's Challenge mode and Party games).
 * This and Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania share their distinctions:
 * Both of them are the celebration of their franchises, the former being the proper celebration of the franchise when The Top 100 gained negative reviews, despite being the 24th anniversary while the latter being the celebration of the 20th anniversary of Super Monkey Ball.
 * Both of them are party games.
 * They saved their franchises as a whole as they gained glory when the former gained their classic Mario Party formula by returning boards, reverting the dice blocks to 10, and removing vehicles while the latter removed guardrails and bringing back more complex stages.
 * Having the same font, being New Rodin Pro DB.
 * Both were released on October 2021.
 * Having customizations such as cards for the former and balls for the latter.
 * Having realistic settings and graphics instead of cartoony settings and graphics.
 * They appeared back-to-back in the Nintendo E3 2021 video.

Reception
This game received "generally favorable" reviews according to Metacritic. With 8/10 for IGN and Nintendo Life and 79/100 for Metacritic.

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