Review Information
Game Reviewed Mario Party 2 PLAY, by Dreamy Luigi
Review Author Mors
Created Feb 4 2016, 9:19 PM

General Commentary and Game Overview
NOTE: I only played MP2, MP3 and MPDS. I don't know much about later games.
 
Pros + Good idea
+ Tons of minigames
+ Achievements.
 
Cons - Bad graphics
- Unpolished
- Minigames are not that great
- AI is stupid
- No pause feature
- Kinda glitchy
 
Impressions
Gameplay
6 / 10
Well, this game is just a Mario Party fangame. There are several different types of spaces, 4 different boards and 2 different characters. While everything sounds nice on paper, the execution is terrible.

Let's start with the board itself. There are 4 different boards and they are pretty different than eachother. That's good. But unlike old MP games they are linear. Well, this is not a bad thing but it just feels kinda weird. There are 3 different characters. Mario/Luigi, Koops, Yoshi. Yes, we can't play as Yoshi or Koops for some reason. And just like MP9, all 3 players move together. However, there's no car, so this just feels weird and lazy. Also, the players collect mini stars, instead of coins and regular stars. This isn't too bad, but I prefer the old system. And when players reach the end of the board, the player with most mini stars wins.

This sounds good so far. But again, the execution is terrible. The boards look bad, the interface is ugly, everything feels random, some animations are missing and the existing ones look pretty bad. Oh, and the game is pretty easy.

But the problems don't end on there. There are minigames too. They aren't great. The ideas of them are okay, but all of them has problems. Like bad AI, being too easy, controls being confusing or bad, etc...
 
Graphics
3 / 10
Bad.

First of all, Game Maker's default particle effects look pretty bad. I wish they weren't in the game at all.
And while the interface is not too bad, in-game sprites are. They have perspective problems and clash with eachother.
 
Sound
6 / 10
The music quality is not that great, but the selection is okay. The sound effects are not bad too, some of them are out of place, but generally okay.
 
Replay
8 / 10
Other than the story mode, there is a minigame mode, micro game mode and 2 extra minigames. While the 2 extra minigames are not good, microgames are kinda neat. They don't feel like they belong to a Mario Party fangame, but they are neat.

And there are achievements. Yeah.
 
Final Words
5 / 10
If you don't mind bad graphics, this game's worth checking out.

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