This game was not what I thought it was gonna be. I thought i was gonna be playing a board game of a mario party map. not doing quest like an RPG! I played for a day and never played it again. :(

Don't get me wrong. This game is fairly easy to get into and goes quick. But calling it Mario Party is wrong. There's not much of a party as it's all single-player action.

The "game board" isn't like a board game as it is in the console versions of Mario Party. It's more like the town or land in Super Mario Brothers 3 or Super Mario World.

I really enjoyed going around the town and meeting the characters that live there and helping them with their errands. Although, some of the missions were kind of dumb (more thought could have been put into them).

The gadgetts earned are just silly. They don't really do much and are a waste of time going through them all. The developers could have spent more time on the actual game play instead of creating these strange things.

The game board is fairly easy to move around but running out of mushrooms is frustrating. It seemed that I would always run out of mushrooms right as I was about to finish a mission where I had to go all around the board and back. At least when the game restarts, all of the completed missions are still completed!

Overall, this is a very fun game. The main portion of the game goes by really quickly and I wish there was a second "level" to it. I guess thats why you don't get all of the gadgetts in town. You have to buy the rest of the gadgetts from Challenge Land which can take a very long time.

I was a Mario Party fan and recently received this gba game. I really enjoyed playing it before I completed all the quests. I was really surprised that there isn't more to do. I do not yet have a cable to connect gb's so that might be fun to try. But overall, it was a pretty fun game. I have to agree that I was pretty frustrated when during the challenge mode, I was up about 4 games and then lost them all. Oh well, something to work on.

I wasn't expecting this game to be quite like the other Mario Parties so I'm satisfied with the way it was put together but the only things I absolutely HATE are:

In the Challenge part where you play mini-games and duel games to get coins (you play a series of games in a row to win), it SUCKS that if you lose ONCE, you're done! That's a big pain! They show NO mercy whatsoever! The challengers are hard and so are most of the games! I'm 21 and I have trouble with it; I don't understand how they expect kids to play this with ease!

I thought this game was horrible. Mini games are very hard and not fun, you need mushrooms to move around the board, run out and your dead.

It was a peaceful day in the Party place, when Bowser came and took all the mini games and E-Gadd's gadgets! OH NO! AND WHAT DO YOU DO? You play as Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, or Peach, and they all start at different places on the board. You go to certain places and do quests for people that are to lazy to do them themselves. You run on mushrooms, and every new turn, you lose a mushroom. Lose them all, you are dead. You beat mini games to get mushrooms, and beat quests to get E-Gadd's gadgets. Sound fun? It's not.

Ratings:

Graphics: 5/10
They were okay, usually what you would expect on a GBA.

Sound: 2/10
I hated the bg music! It was really annoying. >>

Replay Value: 4/10
If your not already bored and returned the game, you can try to unlock every mini-game, like every MP.

Gameplay: 1/10
Worst MP game ever! The controls suck, the mini games are very hard, and you only have a certain amount of turns.

Overall: 2/10
Sucked, yet it's not as bad as Mario Party 7.

Rent, Pass, or Buy?: Pass, not even hardcore fans would like this game.

~B14Z3
"I have spoken!"