Ranking Every Mario Party Superstars Minigame Worst to Best

Holy crap, that minigame mode rant was absolutely golden.

Fun fact about shell soccer: There's an additional layer of strategy in that you can hit multiple goombas at once if you get close enough to them and aim at a specific angle.

To be fair to Tug'o'War, just the fact that we have normal rubber capped joysticks instead of the N64's ridged, hard plastic sticks already vastly diminishes the potential for hand trauma. It's still boring though

I feel like the mushroom mix up should also get some points due to making the game accessible to colour blind people. A lot of the remixed games do that well, making it more accessible for all players.

8:50 A better way to name them is a stacker. Both the competitive Puyo and Tetris communities refer to them as such. The main focus of the game is to stack efficiently to get Tetris' and T-Spins for Tetris, and chains and power clears for Puyo. Downstacking and Upstacking are both terms used for clearing downwards and upwards respectively in both games. The same goes for Puzzle Fighter. Games where you add blocks or objects onto a board, or stacking, fit this category. Games like Dr. Mario and Puyo Puyo go into the matching genre, which overlaps with games like Candy Crush and Bejeweled. Zumba is an example of an action matching stacker. Calling them Tetris games does a disservice to the games involved, like calling all platformers Mario-likes or all FPS games Doom clones. Tetris Game examples are Tritris, where you clear lines of right triangles, and pentris, Tetris but with 5 blocked pieces instead of 4. Source: I'm a top 3% Tetris player and suck at all the other games I mentioned.

Correction in Hide and Sneak- The characters run randomly even in the original so you can't actually use that to gauge where a player goes.

I am so glad I am not the only one who got frustrated with superstar’s dungeon duos. The original is perfect but the jumping in the new game ruined it for me. I could deal with everything else but my brother and I kept missing the jumps.

The fact that winner or dinner has the best minigame ending in the game should at least bump it up to 95th place. I don't mind the game too much honestly, it has a lot more going on than most coin minigames.

As a counter argument for booksquirm, I think the change makes it goofier and that's a good thing. This whistling sound as of a bomb is falling out of the sky, only to be followed by a tiny fwip as the page lands is exactly the kind of silliness I'd expect

In terms of "LOOK AWAY", I disagree. The original version of the game allowed players to rotate the character head really fast, which would make it difficult to try and track them. In the remake of this, your character head moves much much slower.

I probably wouldnt mind SOME of the 3v1's being "unfair" on one side if there was a mechanic that skewed their odds of appearing towards helping the losers. For example, if the 1 was losing the board, they are more likely to get a game that favours the 1, and if the 1 is winning the board, they get a minigame that is stacked against them. Basically, acting as a minor comeback mechanic that actually still requires some skill.

Oh my Lakitu, THANK YOU. Someone else who understands Slot Car Derby, that is in my top 10 favorites of all time and I thought it was really simple. But every time I explain how I’m getting faster than my friends it’s always “Ohhhhhh that makes sense” I don’t know why it’s so difficult to get.

“You better make that game suspenseful as all hell” Then proceeds to complain about how long the bomb takes to explode.

4:06 As pointed out by Skawo when he played through Mario Party Superstars, the Switch joystick has less travel than the N64 one, so realistically the optimal rotating method here is with your index finger.

4:31 - Hide-and-Sneak It has always been random where your character move to before they hide.

"Block puzzle game." It's one extra syllable, but infinitely more accurate.

Thank goodness somebody mentioned the lack of modes. I thought I was the only one who cared about wanting more stuff to do. Also, I'm pretty sure that this is the only game without some kind of single player mode. I mean there's 10, but we don't talk about that one.

4:06 Actually, they changed it from 'Spin the stick as fast as you can' to 'Try and rotate the stick in rhythm to the other players on your team'

Silohawk: this game doesn't work, but I hate these other games so much more even when they work

I feel like Cut From The Team was WAYYY more stressful than Bowser's big blast because it didn't reset how many options you have.