Mario Party 10 Gets It Started With Wii U on 20th March

Meh, I'm just waiting for the unlikely day they finally return to a more traditional board game for this. All these "everyone moves together" gimmicks really seem unneccessary.

But I wonder if Rosalina's presence in this game means she'll get a second amiibo...

I liked the amiibo functionality going on in this game. I think I'm going to have fun with this game, as much as I did with 9

can't wait for this game. will have it in time for March break.

can't wait for it

I'm intrigued by this game. I have never played a Mario Party Title but my boys love Wii U Party so maybe I need to consider this?

By the looks of things....basically we can expect a Wii U game launch about the 20th of every month in 2015. A Wii game added to the eShop most weeks and the normal assortment of random VC games per week?

The Direct was also a little heavy on 3DS (makes sense since the New 3DS is out)......Nintendo trying to show 2015 isn't all about the Wii U I suppose?

This is the first mario party I've ever wanted. but between the amibo and bowser troll mode, I'm very excited about this.

@Kaze_Memaryu The amiibo game mode uses the traditional board game style.

The fact that Rosalina is playable in amiibo Mode pretty much confirms she's a playable character in the main game as well, as far as I'm concerned. That was only a matter of time really.

@jariw Even the first Mario Party had better boards than just squares, so no, that's not really a good thing.

When it says boards does that mean completely new board with associated mini games ?

I'm kind of "party gamed-out" at the current moment. Looks cool but I'm not planning on buying it right away.

Glad to see they finally let you play as amiibo, but a board game wasn't what I had in mind. We've tried a few but my family just never likes them. Dokapon Kingdom was ok but that's been about it. Don't use it in SSBU either.

Still, much better use than the amiibo in Captain Toad. An 8-bit toad? That's it? Glad i didn't wait to play it, almost as lame as a rupee in HW.

Oh well, sorry, enjoy the game, only 2 more months for those waiitng for it.

Love the amiibo use here. For some reason, seeing the figurine on screen and toppling over, etc., is more exciting than seeing it magically turn into a real moving character. I'm intrigued.

Donkey Kong is back? YES!

NEED THIS.

The amiibo party mode has intrigued me and this is coming from someone who before now had no interest in owning one. Too bad it looks like Toadette is going to be omitted from this installment again, no mention of her as an amiibo eventhough she is also in Captain Toad Treasure Tracker.

Making DK playable is a good thing, that is welcome after being absent from the last 5 Mario Parties!

The fact that you get different boards for different amiibos is interesting for me, I hope the boards are actually different and not just different colours with identical spaces.
But the best part is that they are bringing back Stars and Coins in the amiibo mode, Mini stars are just not as good in Mario Party. It's just one currency instead of two.
However I think amiibo party will fall short of my expectations because Mario Party 9 just lacked in the amount of mini games played, when I play Mario Party 1-8, when I set the amount of turns to 25 turns - I expect to play 25 mini games at least! Mario Party 9 is just 5 mini games and a few boss fights and it's over too quickly. Because of this, I think amiibo party will either have very few mini games or NO mini games at all. If I'm wrong and it does a mini game after each person has taken a turn then that's great but I'm not too hopeful that it will happen.

From this post, I've just realised. This is just turning out to be one of the best years ever. More than 1 big(ish) game a month, so many movies coming out, big events in comics, hopefully some good TV (hey, we're getting a Daredevil Netflix series), UK election, Queen Elizabeth becoming the longest-running monarch on 10th September 2015 which possibly means she'll resign after that which means a coronation (which means I might get a day off and it's just a good atmosphere when something big happens like that), 7 week summer break (no school on mah birthday) etc. etc.

Looks like a pretty big year for me.

Mario Party 10!! I'll buy it!!

@jariw And let's all be thankful for that! (I know i am) This game has so many modes! It's like the Smash 4 of Mario Party's!

Though I'm sad I can't use my Samus amiibo and play as her

Meh, the lame boards make their return. I want the traditional boards as an option (no, those amiibo squareboards aren't good enough).

Ok, where is my Daisy amiibo?

Definitely buying this! I loved 9, so i'm pretty sure i'll enjoy this one too.

I mostly skip MPs after I try them in stores. If Nintendo wants my cash, they should release MP/3; The 1st 3 title on N64 are my fav in the MP series.

I'm interested to see the pricing details for this. The bundle will probably be the regular $59.99 price which means the regular game will be at least $49.99 if not cheaper.

@Capt_N Second that comment, I've been begging for a virtual console release for Mario Party 3 for ages. Mario Party 1 won't happen due to the rotating stick games causing a stir but Mario Party 3 can still happen and it's a very good game.
Try picking up that game on N64 nowadays, it is so expensive over here in Europe.

I could never really get into Mario Party. It just isn't my game, I didn't even like them on N64. This trailer looked ok, I'll try to play this when it gets released but I doubt I'll buy it.

ug... it looks like it is back to the car....

I'm a big fan of Mario Party so I'll definitely be picking this up. I bet it looks great in HD. I just hope it's better than Island Tour.

This year is looking awesome for Nintendo fans! Can't wait!!

Oh no, that atrocious car is back D: I hope that at least this time around the game isn't based on chance 99% of the time.

I am actually excited about MP 10. But what I really hope they changed the ''Playing little to no mini games'' to having to play mini games after everyone has had their turn. Mini games are a vital part to MP why would you change it? You have to be lucky to play mini games in MP 9 and that is a terrible idea. Who ever thought about that really needs to get fired.

Mario Party games were great for the kids. Hopefully game pad can be utilized well.

Nothing beats playing Mario Party with your family; this is a must buy for me^^

Island tour was horrible. A sign that mario party is now doomed to be boring from now on. SAD!!!

I hated the everyone moves together in 9. So ill have to pass on this. Its a shame i enjoy mario party games.

@Nintendobro Sadly it looks like the lack of mini games will be repeated in MP10 by the looks of it. One of the screenshots clearly shows mini game spaces are still on one of the boards, I'm glad to be honest that they made some mini games show up in the dice block boxes in MP9, that is kind of a saving grace, it would have been terrible if mini games were only achieved off mini game spaces.
The games are shorter overall but that makes Mario Party appeal to a certain amount of my friends who had no interest in the series before so I can see why the series has change tack.

@ericwithcheese2 @beautifulstrong As someone who got Island Tour as part of the free game promotion, that game is really bad. The boards are so short on that game it's just plain sad. There is only one board on that game that is worth playing and that is the very first one. The only good thing for that game was everyone was moving individually which for some reason MP10 has omitted from everywhere except Amiibo party.

Another Mario Party? No thanks, i got bombared with a thousand of those party games last gen.