Mario Party: Island Tour REVIEW

Call me a terrible person for getting this before Super Mario 3D World and Legend of Zelda: Link Between Worlds, but I there is a perfectly acceptable reason for this. I debate. I needed something to do in between rounds. My friend likes Mario Party. I told him I'd party with him. And there I was at GameStop asking for Mario Party when the employees were like "you know we have the new Mario and Legend of Zelda in-store too..." and I had to say "I'LL BE BACK FOR THEM." So anyways, without further ado:

MARIO PARTY: ISLAND TOUR

79/100

Despite the weird looks given to me by the GameStop employees, I still purchased Mario Party and played it for 50 hours of playtime before reverting to Pokemon X to catch 'em all. But, throughout that time, this is what I thought:

Mario Party Island Tour promised to ruin your friendships in brand new ways, and the game definitely lives up to that claim. The competitive multiplayer parties are just as fun as ever, and you would think with 81 brand new minigames, you would never get bored, but I quickly got bored with it. Singleplayer seemed promising, but I was nearly immediately bored with the stale CPUs and the game boards aren't quite as interesting as they were in Mario Party DS, some have as little as under 20 spaces.

Multiplayer is a different story, that friend whom I got this game for us to play and I had a great time for a full 6 hours the day after I bought it, and after that I had a few more parties with my siblings, but after that, I never played it again... so far.

Overall, if you have friends or family who have 3DSes but don't have Pokemon X or Pokemon Y (what is wrong with you?) this game is the perfect multiplayer to play with all of your friends/family. If you do own Pokemon X or Pokemon Y, keep playing it. It's not worth leaving.