Mario Party Jamboree may be the series' third installment on Nintendo Switch, but it's brining some fresh ideas to the table.
When I reviewed Mario Party Superstars in 2021, I praised the party game and called it a sort of logical conclusion for the series. Its curated nature made it feel like a greatest hits collection that the series could neatly end on if Nintendo chose to do so. It didn’t, and we’re getting another new installment this October in Mario Party Jamboree.
After some familiar dice-rolling and item buying, I got a taste for a few of the package’s new minigames. Most of the ones I tried follow the series’ usual elegant design. Light-Wave Battle had all four of us ground-pounding a button in each of our corners to let out a damaging ring. The goal here was to hop over my opponent’s rings while still trying to let out my own to eliminate them.
New modes All of that is great, but you can get that experience already in either Mario Party game currently available for the Switch. Jamboree needs to go the extra mile if it’s going to convince players to buy another full-priced installment that’s unlikely to get any kind of post-launch support. On the most basic level, it’s bigger than either Super Mario Party or Super Mario Superstars. It features seven boards , including two from previous entries.
In between those rounds, all 20 players compete at once in a large-scale minigame. The one I tried placed all of us on a floor as pieces of it collapsed from under us. Players slowly got eliminated as they failed to get to safety until one person came out victorious and got a space boost for their troubles. It’s like a game out of Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, another sign that Nintendo is taking notes on other popular games.
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