How GOOD is Mario Party Superstars? 

Hey everyone! Hope you're doing well! Wanted to make a series where I "review" certain games that I care about, and the Mario Party games are gonna be the big ones! Leave a comment on anything you didn't like/could be improved (bad explanations on things, editing wasn't good, certain parts were too short or too long, etc.), and if I mentioned something incorrectly, let me know so I can make the corrections here! Thanks for watching!... ... I forgot the Hidden Block Card for items... well that item just gives you a Hidden Block at the moment, either coins or a star. Fun fact: it's NOT predetermined, meaning if you use the item and get 5 coins, then reset your game and use it again, you could get a star lol

No DLC is criminal. So many maps and minigames they could’ve added

“It’s practically impossible to time the third block in Chance Time” *THE VERNIAS WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A WORD WITH YOU*

I love how every instance of Brent getting Chance Time involved him taking a star from Wario. Y'know, to the surprise of absolutely nobody.

One would think they learned from mario party 7 where the blue mushroom was the most overpowered item in the game (Essentially a custom dice block but you still need to do a bit of timing with it). Then they nerfed it in 8 so you can only move 1 to 5 spaces (still very good) but you still have to time it. Superstars really said: "Just pick whatever number you want from 1 to 10 without requiring any skill at all for 12 coins"

I’d say Superstars is good. A solid 8/10. It could’ve been WAY better, but it’s what the Mario Party series NEEDED to be good again

"It only has 5 boards. All content is reused. It has little to no replayability. Still, there goes the best damned Mario Party we've had in more than a decade"

Ninetendo looking at the Mario Games: -Base Mario being held up -Mario Kart drowning -Mario Party in the water

The worst of all is that Nintendo completely forgot about Superstars because it has more potential and, above all, more scenarios... you can say that this game was created to calm nostalgic people.

This isn't Brent reading a script. This is Brent just knowing all of this and just spitting it perfectly

It’s so sad Nintendo hasn’t included any DLC after its successful launch. More maps and characters would make this game even better than it already is.

This video is so different from what's usually on the channel, it would be very nice to see more of these reviews

It's honestly pretty sad this game was abandoned and really only made for nostalgia. No Bowser Board or Secret bonus board? That's just crazy honestly it really deserved DLC

Nice to see you branching out into different forms of content, didn’t expect a Mario party review from you, love you Brent ❤

Oooooooh interesting and different video Brent would love to see you do this with the rest of the main series at least

Mario Party DS >>>>>>>>>

I love hearing Brent give a thorough take of Mario Party games, like we only ever get to see the Party Crashers on RU-vid play the games and make jokes the entire time, but we do get small glimpses of what they really think about the games they play every now and then. It’s very fascinating to then hear someone who’s played the series growing up and has the reputation of performing the best in said games give their honest, personalized take. Would love to see more of these in the future

dont worry guys i will make mario party superstars 2 happen in the next direct

My two biggest issues with this game are 1. The item shops stay the same, forcing the same repetitive boring, snowballing meta super mario party had if not more so 2. The board choices “conveniently” lacking many branching pathways aside from horror land You have yoshis tropical island which are two linear circles You have peachs birthday cake which is a linear board You have space land which almost nothing but straight lines outside of the center You have woody woods that has the signpost gimmick forcing you on a direction, do you SEE the problem? It makes horror land feel incredibly out of place, and combined with the samey item meta it makes almost every game of superstars feel almost identical to the last, I can’t say the same about any other game in the series not even super mario party to an extent (despite having similar meta issues) It just feels like NDcube is still on that mario party 9 copium where they have to force linearity as much as they can get away with so your little brother or grandma can process what’s going on which to some extent I get, but it harms part of the core appeal of mario party: The strategy and unpredictability, kinda hard to strategize when there’s a clear best item for cheap prices on a straight line over and over 😵‍💫 Not a bad game but I’d be lying if I didn’t say this grew to become one of my least fav classic styled mario party games (outside of the improved minigames from games like MP3) Not gonna go into any other gripes I have either aside from this: For a celebration game, it’s quite the disappointment compared to smash ultimate which came out 3 years ago and even sonic generations which came out a decade prior

The fact that this game never got DLC is a heinous missed opportunity. They could have added extra boards, extra minigames, or even extra characters. But I guess Nintendo and NDCube released the game as is and thought "Eh, good enough."

You see, Space Land was actually GOOD in Mario Party 2 but Superstars changed the mechanic of the Sniffit Patrols. In the original, you could set up the patrols to break the Happening Space cycle and be moved into the diagonal in the path to the middle. This also means the patrols acted as traps to force players into the path of Bowser's Beam. It was a low scoring board but there was strategy!

I think overall you did a very good job with this analysis video, you explained the mechanics very well and had a good pacing dedicating the time needed for each section properly, while also adding some funny jokes. Superstars feels like a double edge sword to me, on one hand this is the revival that the series badly needed, after 7 (SEVEN!) bad mario parties that changed the formula of the originals for worse, this is the reminder we needed of what mario party actually is...but on the other hand, it's lack of real content makes it feels like an incomplete game and wasn't pushed nor supported to achieve it's true potential. Nowadays I gave up on DLC but I'm hopeful for next entry in the series that it can achieve what superstars could've.

Brent talking about the Vs/Battle space money distribution and I see a smiling piplup face. My brain: TcNick3 guest appearance!

What a nice birthday present. Thanks Brent

It's absolutely insane this game never got any kind of updates. Not even a second board from Mario Party 3.

6:48 2 are chosen randomly if you play 25 turns or less, it's 3 if you play 30 turns Also, you can set the bonus stars to classic, basically to how it was in Mario Parties 1-5, where it's always the Minigame, Rich, and Eventful bonus stars that are up for grabs regardless of how many turns played.

For triple dice, if you roll three 7s, you’ll be rewarded with 50 coins. Only reason I know this is because a Yoshi AI rolled a triple dice on turn 18 on Peach’s birthday cake. If I’m not wrong, that is a 1/1000 chance of rolling exactly three 7s, which means it’s extremely rare to occur.

Nick is very handsome.

King Of Skill got me for a second when I saw that Thumbnail

"Cursed Dice is Bad" I can feel Sophist seething at the sound of that.

My personal take on the game is that it’s a perfectly serviceable mario party, but doesn’t have enough content especially considering it’s all older minigames and boards

Space Land is actually my favorite board in Mario Party 2. I think that the Superstars version is worse though due to how they changed the Snifit Patrol. In Mario Party 2 when the extended Snifit Patrol was triggered, all characters in the way would be pushed back to the path leading to the middle of the board. However, Superstars keeps you on the outside paths which(even though it does lead you to the right side Boo) feels like it takes a lot of freedom away from the player, especially on the left side where you can't redirect to the middle and have to walk all the way to the top right to change your direction.

This is a game that cemented the idea that you cannot rely on a game having DLC to save it. I bought the game b/c I love playing Mario Party with my brothers and I remember there being an announcement that there would be more DLC maps added as time went on. That obviously never happened. I still love this game, but there is a reason why I also bought the N64 expansion pack for Mario Party 1, 2, and 3 or bring my GameCube when I visit family.

Brent, I did not know the difference between a non-hidden block space and a normal space. And for telling me, I thank you. Now I can destroy my friends skillfully the next time I play Mario Party Superstars. Not toxically though!

Man, is there any type of video you can't make? You're great at montages, you're great at gameplay videos (solo or with the boys), and apparently you're great at making video essays too. This is incredibly well-edited, I can't wait to see you do more game reviews!

This is a solid 8/10, but with DLC, this could've been an easy 10/10. Nintendo's priorities are all outta whack

When Brent was talking about Hidden Blocks, I heard Brent's more annoyed tone when Nick in the background got a star

Here's how I would have done the DLC as a "SuperStar Season Pass": 5 New Boards - 1 from MP 1, 2 from MP2, 2 from MP3 (one board would release every 2 - 3 months to space them out and keep everyone playing like how they did the DLC for Smash and Mario Kart) 50 New Minigames - For every board that would come out, 10 minigames would be added as well (4 Free-for-All, 3 2-v-2, 3 1-v-3 for each board releasing) 5 New Characters (even though they don't do much, it would still be nice to have. ) - Diddy Kong, Nabbit, Boom Boom, Pom Pom, Pauline (couldn't add characters like Koopa, Boo, etc as their roles are already fulfilled in game) Returning Items - Golden Mushroom, Bowser Suit, Reverse Mushroom, Bowser Phone, Boo Repellent, Wacky Watch, Koopa Kard, Barter Box. More Party Options - Game Turn Count can now max up to 50 Turns like in Mario Party 2, Increasing the number of Bonus Stars between 0 - 5 at the end of the game, customizing what items can appear in the shop, a 2 vs. 2 Game Mode like in Mario Party DS / Super Mario Party. Balancing Changes to unfair, unbalanced or simple minigames, as examples; Piranha's Pursuit, Pogo-a-Go-Go, Spin Doctor, Roll Call, Tread Carefully, etc, etc. More Purchasable things in the Store for Party Points - Music from Mario Party's 1 - 10, artwork and concept art from Mario Party 1 - 10, New Stickers, New Player Card Backgrounds and Character Icon. That about covers everything I can think of, if anyone else has any ideas, feel free to comment. My ideas were based of I could be plausible for SuperStar DLC, so I couldn't go wild with everything but I think everything I put down here sounds reasonable. Hope you all take care. ^w^

Mario Party Superstars had SO much potential . Sure what we got was pretty good, classic maps to relive our nostalgia, a solid collection of most of the past Mario Party Mini Games and fan favorite characters returning to the roster after their long absence. But *DAMN IT* I wish there were MORE TO ENJOY HERE! I wouldn’t be opposed to Superstars getting DLC in the form of new returning maps from the large history of Mario Party and not just the ones from the N64. What about the ones from the GameCube, the Wii, the 3DS, the Wii U? I would loved to see returning boards from Mario Party 6,7,8 and even a reworked 9 Map as DLC to spice up the variety of places to play and even MORE mini games that missed out the first time like Track and Yield, Sick and Twisted, Gun the Runner, Ghost in the Hall, Take Me Ohm, Bomb Barge and SO MUCH MORE. They can even give us some of the future Mario Party characters as DLC like Goomba, Boo, Hammer Bro, Blooper, even characters like Koopa Kid can be DLC characters. I wish Nintendo didn’t just abandon this game when there was so much untapped potential behind it.

There's two wolf in a mario party enjoyer: one is zoomzike "identifying luck" the other is king of skills "review" both are the best videos to ever be uploaded on youtube (probably)

I actually would love a video where you create DLC for this game. Ive seen a lot of videos about people creating DLCs for games, but a Mario Party one sounds really interesting

Am I the only one who feels weird at how calm Brent is in this review?

An interesting trivia on woody woods: if you go to the good one and don't move you'll get nothing, but with the evil one you'll get both

Sophist be like: I hate Mario party (since he almost always gets last)

I watched SIlokHawk rank every minigame in Superstars, and I think he explained them and the problems in them very well. Even if it seems like he's a bit nitpicky.

Superstars is my favorite Mario Party game. I personally love it and it sucks that DLC isn't gonna be a thing in this game

I wanna see more of these!! Really love how detailed the analysis is in each point and also talks about every part of the game, even the lesser known ones!! I'm really looking forward to how you do the next games in this format!!

Brent making a whole PhD thesis video about Mario Party Superstars is something I didn't expect but highly appreciate.

It's worth noting that in Mario Party Superstars, there are two ways that the game will give out 3 Bonus Stars like in previous entries: 1. You play for 30 turns (the cap number in this game). Playing for 30 turns means the game will award 3 of the 9 Bonus Stars instead of 2 of the 9 if you're playing in 20 turns or lower. 2. You set the Bonus Stars to "Classic" before starting. When you do this, no matter how many turns you play (10, 15, 20, 30), the game will ALWAYS hand out 3 specific Bonus Stars, that being Rich, Minigame, and Event stars. (Unlike the classic games, the Rich Bonus Star isn't the same as the Coin Bonus Star. Whereas the Coin Star awards players for the most coins HELD during gameplay, the Rich Star awards players for the most coins COLLECTED (or stolen or spent).) Also, the fact that there's only a mere five boards in this game is really, really dumb. Couldn't have added another Mario Party 3 board to even out the total to six? Oh well. Honestly, I would've at least liked a Bowser board. It's been a while since we had one and, in my opinion, the chaos in a Bowser board makes it fun and scary.

Your voice is a very soothing one for some reason, love the vids as always

I am SO here for Brent gaming video essays!! This video was extremely well made and informative! I learned so many things that I never noticed from watching Party Crashers gameplay. Looking forward to seeing more of this type of content!

Ah yes the green space for when Sophist rolls a 0 on the first turn

Mario party, of all Mario games, would benefit the most from DLC. Who would turn down more boards, minigames and characters? Extra money is staring Nintendo in the face but they just don't bother. I think there's ENOUGH content in Superstars. I mean, a lot of people are still playing and having "fun" today. The online certainly helped out. But then there's the fact that you know that they could have added a lot more.

I like how you use Luigi, Wario, Daisy and DK but no Birdo XD

God, I love those videos where the creators just share their appreciation and knowledge for a topic they like. It's so clear that the mario party series means a lot to you and you've built a lot of memories around it. Keep it up! :D

Thank you for this review Brent! Right on point with every comment you made and I’m excited to see your future reviews!

So, this is basically Brent's version of Identifying Luck ? neat-

This review would make Zoomzikes Proud. amazing video as always Brent. and yes, Custom Dice is too overpowered😡

I really love how your editing fits in closely every single video you’ve made! And also, great video!

Hey Brent this was a fantastic change to your usual lineup and i hope to see more videos like this. Your analysis was awesome

My only complaint about mp superstars is the lack of maps and unlockables

Mario Party Superstars is the game that started it all where Eevee, YOU PICK WAAAAAAAAAAAAAARIOOOOO!

This was a solid review and I definitely look forward to seeing more in the future. If there’s any area of improvement, I didn’t notice anywhere else, but the ending of the Space Land segment, the energy brought in just didn’t work for me. That level of energy works in the multiplayer and single player videos you do, but just kinda felt weird tonally with the rest of the video, which was a solid critical look at the game. Humor’s subjective, though, and all that. So that could totally just be me. Overall, the video was good- the edits were good and funny, the narration was well done, keeping a calm and level head when explaining the positives and negatives, you were very thorough, and you were fair in criticism.

Solid video. I would like to see you continue on that direction with other series as well like Fire Emblem

Nintendo really dropped the best Mario party in years and gave it no dlc bro

Actually, the number of bonus stars depends on how many turns you choose. If you choose 30, 3 will be awarded at the end of the game. To this day I'm still amazed that the devs managed to make Space Land worse. In MP2 if you get chased by the police you'll end up in the line of the laser, which not only makes it more of a threat, it also makes it so you aren't stuck in the same section over and over again. Another thing about the minigames, what's really sad is that not all of them are in rotation when you start a board. As someone who usually plays 30 turns this gets very noticeable over time. Overall though I can agree with most of what you said and this is definitely the first game in the series in a long time where it feels they made a step forward. I still rank the original 8 higher than this, but as far as ND Cube MP goes, this is the best one. Even though my friends and me are still salty to this day that there is no option to play 50 turns.

that was a nice Identifying Luck-lite video I wish you talked about the differences between the original and the remake for every boards, because they are all changed in some way : -Space Land's happening event, with the snifit police, brings you to a different space -Horror Land has one less day boo, and the Womps don't block the path you just took -Woody woods' happening events don't swap all signs anymore, and the gates go in the opposite direction

5:10 "it's really difficult to control the last block" Except if you are the LEADER OF THE VERNNATION 😂

this video reminds me of zoomzike

You really have to take a look at Mario party 9, leaving aside the turn mechanic it has really original concepts and (for me) one of the best minigame selections of any game, also the extras beat any game in the series with the museum

This was one of the most entertaining, best edited, and least pretentious reviews of anything I've seen. Makes sense, considering you made it! Great job, Brent!!

Awesome video bro, love the content you've been providing for this game with the fellas, always a good time watching a mario party game However there are a ton of stuff that I want to point out which you didn't mention in the video. So I brought my nerd glasses out and stated fun facts and extra useful knowledge about the party mode: - Hidden blocks can't spawn on star spaces - There is a very rare chance you can get a bonus star depending on how much stickers you used during an online game specifically - No gold pipes or Boo Bell can appear on Peach's Birthday Cake - Mr. I's price is cheaper during the nighttime (3 coins instead of 6) - Horror Land is tied with Woody Woods in terms of bank spaces and not the sole one with three bank spaces.

This is the closest we'll get to Identifying Luck in Mario Party Superstars

So they will give dlc to the mario party game no one cares about, but superstars get nothing. Thanks, nintendo

I really like these review videos because they help educate me on videogames I don’t play/own. I think it has a lot of potential especially for different types of game genres

I really do hope we get more of these often. It's very thorough, intriguing and probably a really nice break on your vocal cords

Really good video Brent! Hopefully this gets lots of views so that the other Mario parties get videos like this made about them :)

I really enjoyed this type of video surprisingly but again it’s one of my favorite games that you’re covering😄

Loved this video! Really hope to see more about the other Mario Party games and potentially beyond!

Loving seeing your content with Party Crashers and seeing an actual analysis by Mr. King of Skill himself, I found your style of doing this really enjoyable and I am looking forward to future videos Mr. Brent.

Correction for 6:50, the amount of stars depends on how many turns you're playing, for example, if you're playing a 30 turn game, you'll have 3 bonus stars picked.

Definitely a great video. I might not have learned a lot in this video since I play this game and watch your videos, but a potential video on Mario Party 1-3 could be a great learning experience for me personally.

This seems like this’ll be a great series! Excited to hear an in-depth analysis on the Mario party games

Why did I find this so funny, entertaining and educational at the same time!😂 also spectacular work Brent keep it up! 👍🏼

I’ve been wanting a review like this especially with your opinion Mr.King!

I like these kinda videos. I appreciate your opinion on the game aswell. Overall good vid 👌

Thank you for this essay on mario party superstars, this has been very informative.

I think it's great that you're doing this new format for your videos. Can't wait to see the next installments of the MP series ! In addition to TTYD Remake, it would be great to see your opinion on the latest Mario rpgs released ! There is so much to talk about, cannot wait !

I'm loving the "Brent and Chill" vibes this video puts out. Good stuff man, keep it up!

I love KOS, I love reviews, I love this. The only thing I can add is that a more comedic tone would be better for introducing people to your channel, since there's a pretty hefty tone difference between this and your other stuff

On 30-Turn games 3 bonus stars are awarded at the end of the game, if you chose the bonus stars to be random. If the classic bonus stars option was selected, then 3 bonus stars will always be awarded, regardless of the amount of turns.

Love these videos of yours

Man I hope you guys do a rewatch of this video and your old videos to remanesce. Would be pure gold

I’d absolutely LOVE to see more videos like this on other games even if not everyone watches them. Also I can feel some ZoomZike inspiration from his MP series of videos and love that touch 11/10 video ngfl

Man, I love this editing style!

Great video as always Brent. Definitely want to see more of this. You should do one on Color Splash next or at the very least do like a retrospective of the Paper Mario series leading up to Color Splash.

While i do like your other vids with high editing or just the boys playing together, I am so down for review/retrospective type vids. Even if its a game series im not super invested in, I'll still gladly hear out a person talking about the stuff they love. Peak content bb

Brent, i just want to say that your videos are hilarious and literally are what happens when me and my family play mario party. You rock brent. I love the n64 mario party's as much as you do. Have a good day

Very nice analyzing there! Yeah, it´s really great that went back to the roots with this game. Plus the fact that for example they changed the Gumba-path on the Birthday Cake is a huge change itself! Yes, DLC would have been nice, yeah, some Minigames suck, but all in all, I love it! Also, Mush Pit is my favorite Minigame! For... reasons xD

The way hidden blocks work is when the game starts two hidden blocks are placed on the board. One with a Star, one with Coins. The blocks don't move until it's found, then the respective block moves to another space that doesn't already have another hidden block. That's how they've worked in every Mario Party that I am aware of. So if you just have a photographic memory and see where every other player landed, you can process of elimination where a hidden block is. But it's still a 50/50 whether or not it has a star or coins.