Review Information
Game Reviewed Mario Party 2 PLAY, by Dreamy Luigi
Review Author Ren92
Created Jan 23 2016, 1:04 PM

General Commentary and Game Overview
It is a complete Mario Party game and by complete, I mean with minigames AND boards.
 
Pros - Fully playable Boards (MP9 style)
- Fully programmed AI
- Lots of content
- Microgames could be a game on their own
- Lots of minigames...
 
Cons - ...but not all of them are great
- Tiny roster
- Graphics
- Bugs
- Boards may run SLOWLY !!!!
 
Impressions
Gameplay
8 / 10
The boards -Mario Party 9 style- are probably the best thing about the game. It is completely functional, not a lot of negative thing to say about them, it's really a matter of taste. BUT, i think you don't deactivate instances outside the view, making the board running suuuuuuper slow on my computer. It's a nightmare, definitely the biggest problem with the game.

There's a good number of minigames, but some of them have little to no replayability. In other words, the setup may be exactly the same one game to another. Randomly generating obstacles' positions would make some minigames much more fun.

There are some unforgivable bugs in the game, the comment section of the site sums up this point very well, i think.

The side content is fantastic. Lots of it and efforts was put in it, making it actually interesting and enjoyable.

Roster is super small and I don't like that human and AI don't share the same roster(matter of personal taste ?).
 
Graphics
7 / 10
I'm not a fan of the interface. I find it rather ugly and "microsoft paint"-looking.

Character sprites are a too small for my taste.

The boards have a very particular style. It's not that great looking but it's certainly charming and it absolutely works.

Some particle effects are ugly and clashing. Also, I would like more eye candy.
 
Sound
8 / 10
Nothing to say about sound effects, nothing terrible, but nothing great either.

Music are nice, as the directly come from Mario Party games.
 
Replay
8 / 10
It's Mario Party, so endless replayability.

The game is super well conceived, you can finish every board, delete the game, forget about it, then download it again few months later and still have fun with it.

BUT, some minigames are boring the second time you play them, and become absolute torture the third time. Since the path stay the same, it's completly pointless to play them again (note that every Mario Party games to date has this problem).
 
Final Words
8 / 10
Correct the bugs and make the game run faster would be a 9/10 for me (as it kill it for me).
Then, making minigames more randomly generated, enhancing the roster a little bit and slightly polishing the graphics and sounds would win a 10/10.

8/10 but I loved it and I honestly would love to give a better score as it set the bar extremely high for fan Mario Party games.

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