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eriph's Mario Party (N64)
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| [February 13, 2007 03:44:43 AM]
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Considering our first play of Mario Party went kind of so-so, I was a little surprised when tonight my roommate rather enthusiastically said, "Can we play Mario Party? Let's play Mario Party!" But I was more than happy to.
This time went considerably better and was more fun than the first. We played the Yoshi's Tropical Island board for 35 turns (since 20 seemed too short last time). By the way, although playing was fun, that board SUCKS. The "?" green spaces make Toad and Bowser switch spaces, which happened ALL THE TIME. You'd be just one turn away from getting to Toad, and then someone would land on a "?" spot and you'd cry because then you'd have to run into Bowser.
I hate seeing the roulette for the minigames, since it's like, "LOL look at the games you're NOT going to get to play!" There were always ones up there that I'd get excited about, but it would never land on those. Roommate didn't know what the game Face Lift was, but liked the sound of it, so she got obsessed with it for the whole time we played. Every time the minigame roulette showed up she'd shout, "FACE LIFT!" (even if it wasn't there).
Roommate (whose name is Darcy, so I can stop calling her "roommate" all the time) got much better at the minigames this time around. But our skill levels were still way different, and I had a tendency to win...a lot. It made me feel kind of bad when I kept winning all the minigames. Just in general, I like the minigames where everyone collects coins or the players have to work together rather than the minigames where there is just one winner. I wonder if it made her frustrated. I know I can get kind of annoyed if I play games with someone who is much better than me. At least, if it's a competitive game. But when it's cooperative, I don't mind at all.
We tend play somewhat cooperatively in Mario Party. It's sort of an agreement that we don't steal stars or coins from each other when given the chance. Which is how I like playing. I really enjoy playing cooperatively in video games. I'm no good with competition, and playing cooperatively just...I dunno, makes it more fun for me. Teamwork! Though, I suppose if you had four human players, you couldn't really do that, play cooperatively all around. I have a feeling that if Darcy and I were playing against other people, we'd just team up together and gang up against them. Haha.
Y'know, after playing the original with Darcy and having so much fun with it now, I think I want to buy Mario Party 8 when it comes out for the Wii. (She said, "Yes! Do it.") I'm sure they've made a lot of improvements on the Mario Party formula since 1999, so I bet it'll be pretty fun, and since I actually know people I can play with now, it'd be worth it.
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| [February 13, 2007 02:54:52 AM]
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Ahaha, I actually own this game. Out of all the Mario Parties (8!), the only one I own is on the classics list. Which makes sense, obviously, because it was the first. But still! I bought this game ages ago and never really bothered to buy any others in the series. I imagine the later-on games were much better.
I wanted to say, "I didn't play this game that much!" Except when I turned it on, I was sort of surprised to realize I had 80-something stars and owned all the items possible (though nowhere close for the minigames). The sad thing about Mario Party was that I think I was usually playing it by myself because back in grade school I was friends with a grand total of about 2 people who played video games. It sucked being a girl gamer in the old days. And, of course, Mario Party is really best when you're playing it with other people.
But! Now I have lots of college friends who play video games, and a roommate especially! My roommate is of the PC gamer persuasion, and until she became my roommate, had virtually no experience with console games. Which means that she's awkward with a controller and never knows which button is which on an SNES, N64, or PS2 controller. But she's learning! And I'm getting her to play all kinds of console games now.
We played Mario Party together first a few days ago. Since it was our first game, I tried to make it quick and simple. So it was for 20 turns, with the CPU players both on Easy, and we played the Peach's Cake board. I'm not sure if we were really unlucky or what, but that game went horribly. Roommate and I only had two stars between us by the end. CPU Luigi was so obnoxious. He kept getting all the stars and landing on all the good spaces, and ended up winning in the end. It was sad.
Like I said before, roommate is a little controller-challenged, so it took her a while to get the hang of the minigames, especially since some have different controls. So I had a bit of an advantage over her because I was controller-experienced, I knew the rules/goals of all the minigames already, more or less pretty experienced with the minigames. But the controls were fairly simple, so it wasn't too long before roommate managed to stop sucking get the hang of things.
Although, Mario Party is much more luck than skill or anything else. It only takes one really good or really bad turn to make the entire game change. Especially the "!" spaces, which make players change coins or stars with each other. I HATE that space. It always causes me a lot of anxiety whenever someone lands on it.
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eriph's Mario Party (N64)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Tuesday 13 February, 2007
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