I've seen many people who are in the same boat wishing Nintendo would stop messing around with gimmicks and just return to the original gameplay. And with Balloon Bash only having 1 board and limits the mini-games that can appear, it's not going to hold attention for very long. Trying to use the Balloon Bash as a replacement does no justice. To get the obvious point out, I still HEAVILY prefer the original gameplay seen in Mario Parties 1-8 and DS. Now here comes my personal painful part listing the problems I had with this great idea. I don't mind it though, it's still better than 9, 10 and Island Tour's gameplay. While it does take the concept one small step further to the original gameplay, it's still flawed in some ways and still a few steps short of achieving it. The Balloon Bash mode returns from Star Rush and again tries to be the replacement for the original gameplay. Decathalon I believe originated from Mario Party 5, which also returns in this game, where you score based on how well you did in score based mini-games. And playing through all 100 mini-games was a blast, I enjoyed it all. The Mini-Game Island mode is the game's main single player campaign, which is a callback to Mario Party 1's Mini-Game Island and, to an extent, Mario Party 2's Mini-Game Coaster. The game modes were pretty good too, with some being callbacks to modes from previous games. If I wanted to throw any slight complaint, it would be the lack of mini-games from Mario Party 8, which only had 3 in the game.
Granted that may be because I never disliked any mini-games to begin with, but there were none that I originally felt to be long and somewhat boring to constantly play. And what amazes me more is that of all the 100 mini-games, I didn't dislike a single one. Mario Party's Face Lift, Mario Party 3's Bounce 'n' Trounce, ESPECIALLY Mario Party 2's Bowser's Big Blast, seeing all my favorite N64 and GCN games return was amazing. As a person who has played Mario Party since the very beginning, I've lived to see the release of every installment in the franchise and while I still play Mario Parties 1-8 on a regular basis, seeing all my favorite mini-games return was the biggest nostalgic kick I've felt in a long time and I loved every moment of it. One hundred mini-games from the past home console installments is already one of the best ideas you could do with a franchise this big. Time to dive into this party and see what it's got I'm going to start with the pros first and the biggest one is just the concept. But in the end, I will say that my nostalgia won with this game and I'm rightfully giving it the eight out of ten. But in Mario Party: The Top 100 is probably one of the biggest double edged sword games in recent times for me.
Mario Party: The Top 100 is probably one of the biggest double edged sword games in recent times for me.
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