Seeing that there's been longer than the usual year since Mario Party 8, I expect this to be a great entry to the series. If it's styled anything like 5, 6, or 7, then it'll be good. It wont take much for it to beat 1 or 4, at any rate.
I haven't gotten a Mario Party game since MP6. If this game has a lot of inspired minigames and uses motion controls in a smart way, I might give it a look. I won't start getting my hopes up until I see some good reviews.
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What are these new mechanics? I haven't heard anything about it.
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From the Nintendo website. Watch out for the dump!
Game Overview
Grab your friends and family and captain the crew to victory!
The party is back and bigger than ever in the Mario Party™ 9 game for Wii, featuring all-new ways to play! For the first time in the franchise, boss battles crash the party and challenge players to compete to defeat a common enemy. In addition, players now travel across stages together in a vehicle towards a common goal - overcoming obstacles, battling bosses, and collecting Mini Stars stolen by Bowser™ and his minions. Featuring 80 new minigames, adventurous new stages, and all-new ways to play that blend cooperative and competitive action for up to four players*, Mario Party 9 is the perfect way to get the party started.
For the first time in the Mario Party franchise, each stage culminates in a Boss Battle. Collectively, players must combine their strength to defeat classic foes such as Bowser™ and King Boo while still playing competitively to boost their own individual scores. In another first for the series, players ride across stages together in special vehicles. Players take turns as Captain of the vehicle by hitting Dice Blocks to move the party forward, hoping to land on lucky spaces. The vehicles also help to streamline game play and keep everyone involved in the action. Unique Captain Events on each stage give players a new way to change the shape of the game. In Mario Party 9, each themed stage has a clear destination point but with multiple paths along the way, so no two games will play the same. From Toad Road to Boo’s Horror Castle, players will encounter a wide variety of familiar Mario franchise elements in new environments that can be enjoyed solo or with friends. Includes 80 outrageous new minigames that find players making pizzas, escaping haunted mansions, and racing snowmobiles. No time to play through an entire stage? New minigame modes let players enjoy the action in smaller chunks of time. They can hone their skills at any minigame in Free Play mode or try the Extras mode that includes Goomba Bowling and the puzzle-based Castle Clearout. Every time they play, players can earn Party Points that are used to unlock special items and features.
Additional accessories are required for multiplayer game play and are sold separately.
I would be very surprised if it was. I don't see Mario Party working too well as an online game... Unless they have a mode that's purely mini-games that's online but I'd imagine that'd get pretty boring.
it would be a huge succes if it had decent online, enough of this "it wont work online", of course it can! Nintendo just need to make an effort. Wii Party already was a very good game, there's no excuse for releasing more-of-the-same, also it better makes use of Motion+
I was hoping it would have online, since Fortune Street has online. But judging from Best Buy's Website Box Art, it has no Wi-Fi logo on it.
From the Nintendo website. Watch out for the dump!
Game Overview
Grab your friends and family and captain the crew to victory!
The party is back and bigger than ever in the Mario Party™ 9 game for Wii, featuring all-new ways to play! For the first time in the franchise, boss battles crash the party and challenge players to compete to defeat a common enemy. In addition, players now travel across stages together in a vehicle towards a common goal - overcoming obstacles, battling bosses, and collecting Mini Stars stolen by Bowser™ and his minions. Featuring 80 new minigames, adventurous new stages, and all-new ways to play that blend cooperative and competitive action for up to four players*, Mario Party 9 is the perfect way to get the party started.
For the first time in the Mario Party franchise, each stage culminates in a Boss Battle. Collectively, players must combine their strength to defeat classic foes such as Bowser™ and King Boo while still playing competitively to boost their own individual scores. In another first for the series, players ride across stages together in special vehicles. Players take turns as Captain of the vehicle by hitting Dice Blocks to move the party forward, hoping to land on lucky spaces. The vehicles also help to streamline game play and keep everyone involved in the action. Unique Captain Events on each stage give players a new way to change the shape of the game. In Mario Party 9, each themed stage has a clear destination point but with multiple paths along the way, so no two games will play the same. From Toad Road to Boo’s Horror Castle, players will encounter a wide variety of familiar Mario franchise elements in new environments that can be enjoyed solo or with friends. Includes 80 outrageous new minigames that find players making pizzas, escaping haunted mansions, and racing snowmobiles. No time to play through an entire stage? New minigame modes let players enjoy the action in smaller chunks of time. They can hone their skills at any minigame in Free Play mode or try the Extras mode that includes Goomba Bowling and the puzzle-based Castle Clearout. Every time they play, players can earn Party Points that are used to unlock special items and features.
Additional accessories are required for multiplayer game play and are sold separately.
The cooperative aspect of the game sounds interesting, but the real selling point here is Goomba Bowling. That sounds awesome.
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Mario Party returns with all-new stages and a slew of new minigames, and we've played a few rounds on two of the ninth installment's new areas. The competition is slightly different from what you might be used to. Instead of moving around the stage separately, all players ride together in a vehicle. Of course, only the player whose turn it is reaps the benefits of landing on a particular space.
The goal is to collect as many Mini Stars as possible before reaching the end of the stage. These prizes are scattered along the path, but you can also earn them by landing on special spaces and competing in minigames. Just watch out for the noxious purple Mini Ztars - they remove Mini Stars from your inventory. Adding a bit of strategy are the various dice block that you can find, including those that roll only high numbers or roll only a 0 or a 1. They allow you to better plan where you travel.
The first stage that we played was Toad Road, which has a fairly basic layout. One of the main attractions is a broken bridge that cannot be jumped unless all players roll a sufficiently high number. Failing to do so drops the car into a Mini Ztar-filled canyon. The second stage, Bob-omb Factory, is littered with conveyer belts that change your course. Each stage also includes an encounter with a miniboss and a final boss. In the Bob-omb Factory's fight against a giant Whomp, for instance, each player stands on a rotating platform while attempting to avoid being flattened by the stone creature.
You can't have a Mario Party title without minigames, and there are dozens of new challenges in which to compete. These range from memory games (quickly count a horde of Goombas as they rush into their homes) to tests of your button-pressing skills (tap the proper buttons to climb a mountain) to more-physical activities (swing the Wii Remote to throw toppings on a pizza). With so much to do in Mario Party 9, you're bound to be playing with your friends for a long time.
Thanks for the info @KaiserGx. I wasn't fond of all four players traveling around the board together, but it certainly adds more strategy to the mix. Now we'll have to plan out our moves to maximize our star count, and foil our friends turns. I can't wait to get this!
I don't like the sound of all four players moving together in one vehicle but I like it the sound of boss fights being in every stage like in Mario party DS.
There's actually a Boss and Mini Boss Battle in each Stage and Bowser.Jr. is not the mini boss but special games against him (you encounter him many times) as these are 2 v.s Bowser Jr. games. I can confirm for one area has Whomp as a Mini Boss and King Bob-Omb as the main boss. (or could be vise versa) Btw the boxart was real!
Hopefully they are actually taking their time now to create a fun Mario Party not seen since the N64 days. I'm kind of excited about this actually...now to make some friends!! T_T....kidding
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