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We also lose weird experiments, such as combining multiple Switch tablets into one interconnected screen, something developer NDCube did with Super Mario Party and Clubhouse Games. Not that Mario Party should be complicated, but control gimmicks at least mix things up for casual players. On the other hand, this also means that the games feel a bit basic. On one hand, this means that Superstars will work whether you play it on a TV or in handheld mode, unlike Super Mario Party which required detached single Joy-Con controllers. You won’t find any DS touch screen shenanigans or Wii-era motion controls. Those games rely solely on button and analog stick controls. But that's not just for nostalgia's sake. While you'll see a few mini-games from Mario Party 8, 9, and 10, Mario Party Superstars pulls most of its mini-games from the earlier Nintendo 64 and GameCube titles. Ultimate, a grand celebration of everything in the series rather than the mere sample we have here. Imagine Mario Party’s answer to Super Smash Bros. Two boards in Superstars, Peach’s Birthday Cake and Yoshi’s Tropical Island, come from the very first Mario Party, a game which offered eight boards 20 years ago. The previous Mario Party, Super Mario Party, featured 20 characters and 84 original games. Since this is a remake, I would have liked to see a much bigger scope. If this was new material, those would be reasonable numbers. Mario Party Superstars features five boards, 100 mini-games, and 10 playable characters pulled from the series' history. However, as a digital board game, Mario Party works much better as a social multiplayer home console experience rather than a handheld one, even if the Nintendo Switch can do both. A few years ago, Nintendo released Mario Party: The Top 100, a compilation for the Nintendo 3DS. The idea of a Mario Party game recycling old Mario Party content is, itself, a recycled idea. You Get Older, Mario Party Stays the Same However, unless you’re a die-hard Mario Party fan, the content-lite Superstars feels more like a pleasant, fleeting memory instead of a full-on blast from the past.

Mario Party Superstars offers a select crop of those classic boards and mini-games as a new, A$79.95 Nintendo Switch game.

However, Mario Party has changed enough over the years that you might be nostalgic for the franchise’s early Nintendo 64 and GameCube entries. The mini-game collections follow the faux board game format so exactly they start to blur together. Nintendo has released nearly a dozen Mario Party games since 1998 even more if you count the spin-off titles.

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