The latest installment in Nintendo's Mario-themed board-game series and the first for the Wii seems to be a promising game based on the hour I spent playing it last night.

The boards, in concept, have barely changed, and retain the Mario Party 7 style of unique star obtainability for each board, and the mario party 6+ DK spaces. New things to see are the Challenge Games, the movement from item capsules into candy, a wii remote controlled dice block hit, and best of all, the minigames. The few minigames that I played were the three challenges and a few duel games - I'm gonna finish 1P mode today and then begin tackling Party mode.


Anyone else get this game?

Okay, I have to ask: Any new characters?

Everyone from before, plus unlockable Hammer Bro and Blooper.

I just finished my first Party Board. Fun stuff - it's much different than in the 1P mode.

Blooper? O__o I have to wonder how that's gonna work with some games.


Hammer Bro sounds fun to use, though.

Hammer Bro's voice is hands-down awful, though. :|

@Doc - 7, at least I think, was the best one since 3, and though 8's minigame variety (by type, the quantity is still good) is a bit choked down, the game itself is actually surprisingly good for the short-notice release it had.

Geez. I play Mario parties 2 & 3, see Mario Party 4..what happened to 5-7? They're really milking this series.

Too much, I think.

I thought 7 made up for the mistakes in 5 and 6, and 8 did a very good clean-up job itself.