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was ok

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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. :(

Not much of a party...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: June 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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.

Enjoyable yet quick to play

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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.

A Few Flaws

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: December 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

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!

Pretty bad game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: December 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

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!"

BOOOOOOOO!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: November 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

IF YOU ENJOY MARIO PARTY GAMES LIKE ME DON'T GET THIS.IT STINKS!HERE ARE THREE REASONS WHY I HATE IT.
1.YOU CAN ONLY PLAY AS MARIO,LUIGI,PEACH AND YOSHI!
2.NO STARS.IT'S MISSIONS THAT ARE SOOOO ANNOYING!
3.LACK OF OF MINIGAMES.
YES,THE MINIGAMES AND GADGETS ARE FUN BUT,THERE ISN'T ENOUGH TO KEEP ME OCCUPIED.

Mario Party Reinvented, I Love It!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I think that this game is awesome because it is mario party, but in a whole new way. Instead of multiple characters runing all over a small board compreting over stars and coins, MPA has you navigate a huge game board while concentrating on completing 'quests' and keeping a good supply of mushrooms (what you use to get dice rolls). It has a great old school meets new school feel.

Your mission in the main game is to find and complete quests on event locations on the game board. There are different types of quests, like item delivery/retrival, winning a minigame, solving riddles, etc. Each of the 4 characters use can select (Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and Peach) start at a different point on the board, so character selection is the 1st of many strategic decisions you need to make for each time you play the main game.

The board pieces are also different than previous MPs. The amount of turns you have left is determined by how many mushrooms you have. (0=game over). Each turn starts with a dice roll, and the end of the turn depends on where you stop. Yellow spaces do nothing. Green spaces give you a dice roll without using a mushroom. Red spaces take 1 mushroom from you. Blue spaces have you play minigames to try to win more mushrooms. If you reach a event location and enter it, your turn ends. This creates a need for a lot of planning and luck to accomplish your goals and stay alive longer.

Of course the minigames in MPA are not slacking either. Like in MP4, all games play and look difeerent, requiring different skills and completion requirements. Some examples include leading colored boos to the right colored picture to be captured, jumping on cloud layers to reach a goal high up, and a tetris attack style (matching 3 same colored tiles)game with green turtle shells that can only be removed by a red turtle shell. These games are a lot of fun and some are very challenging. And in this MP there is a reason to replay minigames because in the free mode they keep your highist score for almost all of the games, except the Duel and Bowser games.

If you love Mario Party, you sould consider playing MPA, it worth your time if want something new.

Nothing like the fun Mario Party games for N64 and Gamecube

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: October 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was very disappointed when I first played this game. I am a huge fan of Mario Party 1-6, and even got my Gamecube so I could continue getting them. Mario Party Advance is nothing like any of them. The mini games are difficult with the gameboy and there is no real board game where you try to get the star. Those missions are really dumb. For more entertainment, get any of the gameboy Harvest Moons. At least they held my attention for longer than ten minutes.

It is a little bit disappointing

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I like to play for fun but that this game seems to me more like work. I would enjoy it much more if I wouldn't have to worry about running out of stars that allow me to move around. However, if you are a good player (I'm an occasional player) and have no trouble with passing little games that allow you to collect stars, then this game might be fun for you.

Mario Party RPG should be the name

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: September 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is'nt Mario Party. This is an Adventure game with dumb quests,for example: OH god! Mario,can you help me find my girlfriend? Or Luigi,could you take this ticket to the station? Some quests are fun. But why are'nt you trying to get stars with other friends? What I hate most is that you don't have unlimited rolls! Gadgets was a bad idea. The mini games are OK and so are the new feartures. But why is this game a 4 star instead of 1? Because it's flooded with gamplay. You will get addicted to the minigames fast. Overall,if you love the original Mario Party,you are not gonna have much fun with this game.

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