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from a mario party advance owner: mario is PORTABLE!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: December 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game is awesome! my family adverstises for nintendo and my dad recently send me a copy of the mario party advance and i gotta say this is better than i thogth it'd be. I been playing lately and i'm really impressed with it. the minigames are really fun, they came with great ideas for this game's minigames.
the graphics are awesome!!!!!!. the sound is pretty cool too. they have mixed some of the old mario songs. believe, this is one of the best games for the GBA. Wait until dec. 6 and you see what i mean. Hope this helped you make your desicion!

Its gonna be a good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: December 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game will be great. All of the gamecube mario party's were great. if anyone is a mario fan and likes cool games should definetly get this.I sure am.Also get mario party 6 if u have the money that will be great too!BLUE

good toy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: April 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was hoping they would come out with a Marioarty Advance for gameboy advance and they did.This is a cool toy.YOU NEED TO BUY THIS COOL TOY!!!!!!!!!I MEAN IT..........

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.

MARIO PARTY IS PORTABLE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: November 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is so fun to play on game cube and I have been wondering if they would ever make it for GBA. I can't wait to get my hands on it!

how can you go wrong with Mario?!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: November 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have played mario games scince i was in kindergarden so i expect his game will blow you away. Mario party is a game board. you go trough the gameboaed until you get to the star. The object

Mario Party is finally portable

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: November 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I guess It will be nice to have a Mario Party you can take anywhere.

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.

Portable Party

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 15 / 24
Date: June 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Nintendo has really known how to make a great franchise work right on the money. Nevertheless, that has been true for the Mario Party franchise. Since its debut a few years ago, it has been one of the most surprising games you could ever imagine. Yet, it did have a few mishaps along the way. The game was released as a part of the e-reader card gameplay game for the lackluster e-reader. While the e-reader fizzled into oblivion, the Game Boy Advance is still shining. All that was left was to make a new kind of Mario Party that handheld goers would love. This is that chance.

Mario Party Advance for the Game Boy Advance really does fair quite well. The game has enough of the challenge, and the skill Mario Party has conjured from its days on the Nintendo 64, and the Nintendo Gamecube. The graphics and the theme stands out very well, with over 60 different exciting mini-games to unlock and challenge against other party-players. The music sounds a little more cutesy, but can be a little bothersome at times. The gameplay and control for each of the games is a bit more challenging on a D-pad, rather than the analog stick, but it really is very easy to pick up after a few games. For others, it also makes a great game for the Game Boy Player add-ons for the Nintendo Gamecube. The game is pretty dull for players who are just playing alone, but with others, it really is quite a party.

All in all, Mario Party Advance works very well for the Game Boy Advance, and shows a much needed improvement than before. This is a true must have for the Game Boy Advance player, who wants a little board mania of their own. If you've played it before, you'll love this Mario Party.

Graphics: B

Sound: C-

Control: B 1/2-

Fun & Enjoyment: C+ if you're playing solo; B+ if you're playing with others

Overall: B

Not a party. Just a long quest.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: April 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is not exactly a party game. All you do is drive on a mushroom car around shroom city. You do like 50 quests and earn gadgets. The only characters playable is Mario(of course),Luigi,Peach,and Yoshi. But it is still a cool game. It even includes a Party Board for Multiplayers with only four characters playable. It's just an addition if you want to party,with four people. And you use your gameboy in a cool,yet weird way.And yes i almost forgot to tell you that it does have mini-games,and micro-games. Just buy it and you might like it. Just dont expect you can unlock new characters. And you get to put your information,and secrets. So if you and a friend battle in mini-games and beated you,he might get a chance to view your passport and secret! And yes there is a multi game(4-players)and it is a penguin race,which you dont control it, you just guess which one you think would win the race.....Very surprising!Yet there are a lot of missions and some are hard so it might get you busy if you want to complete the game. Enjoy getting those missing mini-games!

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