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LeeDawg55's Mario Party (N64)
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| [January 30, 2007 05:20:16 AM]
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For this second entry, I focused more on playing the mini-games. The mini-games in mario party is the basis of the entire game. Anyways I thought the mini-game were entertaining. They were very short, simple, and fun. I think its really smart for the game to offer some sort of monetary value for these game. A player can collect coins and be able to buy new mini-games. This gave me some great ideas for my video game project. I felt that a small mini game such as some of the ones I played can be a very effective and fun game. Each little game had its only uniqueness and I thought that this was what made it interesting to keep playing. It was at that point where I was looking forward to playing a new game I have not seen yet. I didn't have many social interactions but what caught my feeling is that this would be a great game to show to a young one thats starting to learn how to play games. Aside from developing skills of pressing a button repeadly fast, I think that this game would be wonderful to show new gamer only because of the wide variety of the mini games they are able to play. There wasn't that much cutscene, just the bowser or toad transistions onto whats going on but I thought that this game is a very simple, easy to learn, easy to follow game. There isn't much story which gives a positive outcome for this game because you can just play these games and not worry about missing a piece to the storyline. Overall, I feel that this game is always a favorite and I know that this game will continue to grow in the future (as its doing with Mario Party 8). Creaters of this game are able to design many small games that will always be fun to play. I would give this game a 7ish out of 10. Overall pretty good!
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| [January 30, 2007 03:47:23 AM]
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So the reason I played this game from the classics is because of how much fun I remember this game was. I literally put hours into this game on my little cousins 64 and decided to bring back the good memories with this game. I have only played the second and third mario partys and never the original. Anyways I just decided to play with normal settings for a quick game. Overall, I felt was a pretty close game until random award stars were given out at the end so I ended up in 3rd. I can pretty much relate this game to an interactive board game where certain spots are good or bad. This game represented the basic characters in the mario world! Nobody too special! This game really has no story. I think it represents a free from all the basic storylines of mario (mario strives to save princess peach). It's nice just to play this interactive board game with some of your favorite characters. What makes this game so much fun is the wide variety of different mini games you are able to play. I know this is fun for everybody who plays it or else they wouldn't have 7 sequels to this game. By the way, I read a little bit (not much about it) about Mario Party 8 for Wii. Seems like a really fun game to play. Anyways back to the original, this game does represent some conflict. I know that its a game and every player aims to win but its more about a random (slot machine type) strategy game that is really hard to master. I am sure that a player may develop some good skill playing the mini game but that would only get you 10 coins (If you were able to win) but usually its hitting a random number block, then on in your route. Granted you are able to decide which way to go if you it a cross road but it really does suck when you save up all the coins with a next diceblock forcing you to see bowser. Which sucks because he usually takes all the coins. But when you play your cards right, and get all the stars you can afford to get, then victory! I did encounter some conflict with the mini games. A competition in different situations of the mini games between the four players. This mini game idea was the only thing that kept me playing. Its pretty boring playing with yourself and 3 other computer players becasue you have to completely go through what they see as a player (you can't skip them). I was pretty bored with that whole idea. I think the whole award system was ok until we got to the last part until there were stars given away to the players who hit a certain spot the most times or whoever collects the most coins. The most coins award was ok becuase that went to the player who excelled in the mini games but awarding a star to the player who hit the ? mark the most. Thats like giving cash to a person who gets a certain card the most times. Stuff like that, the player doesn't deserve! Anyways I am going to play mini games for my second hour and get back!
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LeeDawg55's Mario Party (N64)
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Current Status: Finished playing
GameLog started on: Tuesday 30 January, 2007
GameLog closed on: Friday 9 February, 2007 |
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