Super Mario Party Jamboree is on its way to the Switch this October and the first batch of previews are now rolling in. You can view our own 'hands on' here on Nintendo Life - we think it has great potential based on our time with it so far:
"Our time with Super Mario Party Jamboree may have been brief, but it was very sweet. It brings the best bits of both the other Mario Party Switch games into one package"
Pocket Tactics
"If you’re a fan of Mario, parties, and especially if you’re a fan of Mario Party games, this is for you. It’s an excellent party game coming to the Switch library"
Destructoid
"Super Mario Party Jamboree is shaping up to be a fantastic addition to the long-standing franchise. While fans of the traditional mode should be happy with the game... it has plenty of options to prevent things from getting stale."
IGN
"Super Mario Party Jamboree looks to combine all the learnings from both Super and Superstars into one new ultimate party package, and based on our time with it so far, it has the potential to be the best original Mario Party game in over 15 years."
Polygon
"Super Mario Party Jamboree is pure Mario Party through and through. It has plenty of new additions, like all-new minigames and two characters fresh to the franchise — Pauline and Ninji — but you probably know what you’re getting yourself into with this 25-year-old franchise."
Inverse
"Super Mario Party Jamboree isn’t reinventing the wheel. It predictably delivers exactly what you’d expect. It's a fun Mario Party game with some added wrinkles and great minigames. But the real stars worth collecting here are the two new modes."
Looking forward to this upcoming release? Let us know in the comments.
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Is there any mode which I just only play short mini games if I'm in the mood to have quick burst by playing short games?
How friendly is this game for singles (for example: online play, or accommodating game modes / AI)?
Pretty excited to get this for the family. Perfect for the holidays!
@Anti-Matter yes, all the mario party games usually have that mode
Is this playable on the Switch Lite?
@lovesushi Yes, it is playable on switch light. Everything is identical to the normal switch except you are limited to only using the small screen on the device.
Trank you, then i‘m in. I was just asking because i don‘t like joycen motion control games when playing alone.
I’m looking forward to it, shaping up nicely!
Is this restricted to joycon only like the last Super Mario Party or can it be played with other Controllers?
@ClickBrick I believe they asked because you couldn't play Super Mario Party on a Switch Lite,
you need to buy separate Joy-Con.
A single player story mode would be great!
@electrolite77 It can be played with all controllers! The only benefit you gain with playing with a single joycon is access to a few motion control minigames when playing the board game mode and some of the unrevealed side modes
Love to hear it, looking forward to Nintendo Life's review and playing it myself as soon as my physical copy arrives (and hopefully play it not only on my own and occasionally with my friends, but also with some here on Nintendo Life from time to time)!
@Anti-Matter There are 5 traditional minigame modes and at least one if not more of them should be what you're looking for, check out the link below to see their names which are pretty self-explanatory and the number of players.
@littlegreenbob Here you can find all the game modes and the number of players offline, online against randos and online with friends:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MARIOPARTY/comments/1fa5cu9/i_went_to_the_product_information_and_found_a/
In short, the game really seems to be a combination of the best parts of Super and Superstars and when it comes to online play it has all the features of the latter, i.e. playing against randos, the game autosaving at the start of each turn so disconnections aren't as much of an issue as in the former and so on while as for the AI it's most likely like in those game so I'd say fine if nothing spectacular.
@lovesushi Yep, perfectly playable on the Switch Lite, you're missing only on the motion control minigames unless you have Joy-Cons and play them in Tabletop Mode.
@electrolite77 It can be played with other controllers except for the minigames/modes requiring motion controls and said minigames don't show up while playing on boards when you don't use Joy-Cons.
@Jiggies Unfortunately it seems like there won't be a story mode, it's one of the few bummers about Jamboree for me as I loved those in previous Mario Parties!
its great to be at the point where MPs games seem to get better and better again, especially happy this is the most solo/online-friendly one too. its been hard to fully gather friends to play this locally
I felt as though the previous two games weren't good value for money, especially in terms of number of boards. I honestly expected the last game to receive one or two boards as free DLC. Does this game also include classic boards? I think I read that it does, and my immediate thought was that those boards might perhaps have been intended as DLC. Pure speculation, of course. Here we are with yet another new game, only 5 boards? I'll likely buy it, but I wish we all wouldn't for one iteration, so that perhaps we might get a better game in future.
@luke88 It has 7 boards, 5 new boards and two classic boards. You could just watch the reveal trailer for that info.
It's a relief that Mario Party is good again. A story mode would be the one thing to make it near perfect, but one way or the other, this is easily going to be the best Mario Party in well over a decade. As long as the online Koopathalon runs reasonably well for me, I'll be content.
Sounds very promising! Glad reception is this positive so far. The previews have me more convinced that this will be the best Mario Party since the GameCube/MP8 era!
@BTB20 ah yes! I believe I did watch the reveal trailer,. It was in a direct a while back? The two classic boards bit was what made me think that those two should've been dlc for the previous game, and may even have been intended as such at some point. I think they ought to have been, personally.
@luke88 now that you mention it, it really could be that they planned to make a DLC (free or not) with 2 boards and something like 20ish minigames for Superstars but Nintendo tought it would be better to just wait and added to its sequel to make it bigger.
@JohnnyMind @Nintoz
That sounds like a pretty sensible compromise. Thanks for the info! 😀
@electrolite77 You're welcome!
@SilverM It was my first thought. I have absolutely no evidence to back it up, of course.
While seeing Pauline included is nice, I still believe they should add some of the WarioWare characters and even some more DKC characters too.
And not just in Party, but also Kart and Sports titles too.
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