Mario Party 2

"Party on Mario, you definitly deserve it with this."

I must admit, I bought both Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64 without any hesitating thinking that they'd be good. No, not that good. So, you can't blame me for not taking a little five dollar bill to BlockBuster Video and rent it first. My story getting boring? OK, I'll finish in a second. The bottom line of this story is this,...IT'S AMAZING!

Imagine. A rainy day in your town. It's cold and you don't want to do anything. You get bored and try and play a board game (or game board) with your little brother or sister. With there short attention span, they're onto something else and your stuck with your bordem.

<Game Play> - Quite frankly, this is an digital board game like Monopoly, or Trouble or whatever. It comes with all of the features with minor tweeks. Instead of rolling dice, you jump and hit a number block. Instead of a CHANCE or COMMUNITY CHEST card, there's the Mini-Games.

<Object> - You have to get the most stars at the end of the game. To get stars, you must either buy them from Toad, steal them with a BOO or with an end game BONUS. To buy stars, you need coins. Coins are earned through winning Mini-Games, landing on Blue Circles, etc. There are many ways to get coins.

<Pros & Cons>
{Pro} - Plenty of different Mini-Games, bringing hours and hours of fun through-out your game playing.
{Con} - A lot of the Mini-Games, especially the 3-1's are very dumb. Look Away, TOAD Bandstand, Move To The Music are just a few.
{Pro} - Plenty of Mini-Games to get and most of them turn out to be very fun. Hexagon Heat is a personaly favourite of mine. I'm not sure why, but it just is.
{Con} - Lack of characters. I'd love to follow up on this but there's a problem. There just isn't enough characters in ''Mario Land'' to put into the game.

<Over All>
By far, at least 9 if not 10. Since there is no halves, I'll settle with......10!!!!

Reviewer's Score: 10/10, Originally Posted: 05/14/00, Updated 05/14/00