Mario Party: AI Disaster
Mario Party DS obviously is another version of the series made for DS. Its a board game where mario and his friend roll dice and move around various themed boards to earn stars to become a super star! Each board has its own set of rules on how to earn a star. On one map you may can buy as many as you want when you pass the star for 20 coins each. On another map there may three jars and only one has a star while the other has something else in it!
Through the game you gain/buy items to use on the board or each other. These items can take away coins, items, stars and all sorts of wild things. And like any board game theres tons of spots that do tons of things. From duals, to spots that kick you across the board to spots that make you some money by playing a little game. Its very fun and additive.
The minigames themselves are very fun since you get to use touchscreen AND the microphone. Buttons are used to but the funs comes in trying to use the other things. Although at times its hard to figure out some of the touch screen tasks with the stylus. These games also are varied but are fun.
There are options in game at anytime to turn off mic games and een turn on just easy games. And you can also change the AI level at any time which is nice once you see how much they cheat.
There are lots of things to do with this cartridge. You can play story mode where you unlock the last board and see a interesting story that explains somethings about this game. Theres also other modes like the normal party mode and mini game mode. You can even download the game to a friend so you can both play! Theres even other kinds of games you can play outside of Mario Party! As you do anymode you earn MP points that unlock things, mostly to show off I guess. And you can unlock badges. Once again to show off.
Now there some problems. The biggest being the AI. On EASY it a fair match and unless your doing your best you will get creamed. If you set it higher even to medium you will be slaughtered. Its impossible to win. They AI cheats to say the least. What funny is there a 4th difficultly to unlock. For what reason is beyond me. I guess its to make you cry like a baby if being beat on medium wasn't bad enough.
I mentioned also the stylus mini games at times seem near impossible. Sometimes when you do them you are perfect where as other it seems like it just won't work. Maybe next they should have little demonstrations.
Overall its still a great game as long as you play Easy AI which is still challenging. Its a buyer if you want to something that can keep you busy!