Nintendo has announced thatSuper Mario Party Jamboreewill be receiving a port for the Nintendo Switch 2. While the original had many minigames, the port promises to add more maps and more minigames.
Review: Super Mario Party Jamboree
The Mario Party series is back with Super Mario Party Jamboree. There’s a lot to like this time around, but this new entry is not without its issues.
While the game did include real classics, fans are still looking to see more of the best and brightest games make an updated comeback. Below are ten minigames that must be added to the new port before they are lost forever to the Mario party timeline.
10Shock Drop Or Roll
This amazing yet seemingly forgotten Mario party minigame is a one versus three where the one player is trying to roll the other three players off a spinning platform. The strategy for this game for one player is faking out the other three and constantly changing the direction of the spinning platform. It’s a heart-pounding fun and creative minigame that should be brought back to a more recent entry in the franchise so that Mario party fans, new and old, can enjoy its design.
9Hotel Goomba
A Puzzling Omission
This free-for-all four-player minigame has a lot of strategy involved and feels like a different pace from other minigames. Players must move Goombas out of the way on different levels of a hotel to reach the top first. This minigame is well-designed and creates an interesting new setting with gameplay that rewards a different part of the players‘s brain than simply mashing the A button over and over again. A small update with maybe more interesting hotel rooms would pop in thenew port of Super Mario Party Jamboree.
8Hot Rope Jump
Hot Rope Jump isnot a forgotten minigameas it was recently included in Mario Party Superstars. Such a well-designed, fun and simple minigame, however, would still be a great addition to the jamboree port on the Nintendo Switch 2. In this minigame, four players time their jumps to avoid a fiery jump rope. Competitive players can keep silent or ultra or yell to their friends that they will jump when they won’t, creating chaos as well as a fun couch game environment.
7Pushy Penguins
Arctic Anarchy
One of the great draws of players to theMario Party gamesis the chaos that is promised. Pushy Penguins is an example of a minigame that embraces this concept fully, as players compete to dodge fast-moving penguins of various sizes to stay afloat a slippery icy platform with amazing music playing in the background. The addition of fighting mechanics like punching and ground pounding would make this even better and a great addition to Switch 2’s Super Mario Party Jamboree.
6Move To The Music
Toe-Tapping Tourney
A bit of a forgotten minigame from Mario Party is Move to the Music, a one-versus-three player minigame that has one player creating a dance routine that the other three players must then replicate. The one player’s strategy is to attempt to create a pattern that’s hard to remember and create chaos for the other three players. With updated graphics, new moves and updated music, this minigame would be an awesome addition to the new port.
5Hop Or Pop
Bounce For Your Life
Few minigames create the sheer terror of the three versus one game Hop Or Pop. Super-powered players are given a rolling ball of death to pop the other three players trapped inside balloons. These balloons can only jump three times before getting a brief pause animation, making players time their jumps accordingly to avoid poppage. Premiering in Mario Party 4, this minigame was terrifying for the three balloon players and hilarious for the one player, and should get a return as soon as possible.
4Tumble Temple
Indiana Jones Eat Your Heart Out
A more recent addition to the list of minigames in Mario Party, being part of Mario Party 9, is Tumble Temple. In this game, four players compete to dodge spiked balls rolling down the hill that get progressively faster and more dangerous while trying to not get jumped on by other competitive players. Chaos ensues, friends are lost, and the Indiana Jones vibes all add up to an awesome minigame that players look forward to every time the wheel landed on it. Tumble Temple would be a great addition to the newest Mario party installment.
3Sizzling Stakes
Gordon Ramsay’s Favorite Minigame
This minigame recently appeared for the first time inSuper Mario Party.It is so good that it already needs to come back, as players compete to cook a piece of steak perfectly on every side using the Switch controller’s motion function as if they were holding a frying pan. What worked so well in this minigame is how accurate the motion controls felt, how real the cooking felt and how cathartic it was to finally cook that perfect piece of steak.
2Bomb-omb Bogey
Swinging For A Perfect Game
Another minigame that would benefit from the improved motion controls is Bomb-omb Bogey. In this minigame, players compete to quickly swing their wheel controls to whack as many golf balls as possible. If they hit a bomb-omb, however, they lose points and are stunned. Making sure there is enough space between your friends and family members, lining up four people in a living room to swing the switch controller like a golf club makes for a fun change of pace during a Mario party minigame.
1Slaparazzi
The Best Minigame Ever?
This minigame may be Mario Party’s crowning jewel of minigames. Needing little introduction, four players compete to get as close to a camera while beating each other up to win the most points. It’s a modern Mario Party minigame that completely captures the fun of the franchise with a clear motivation and hilarious moments captured as Yoshi punches out Bowser’s eyeballs for a selfie. With tight controls, slaparazzi may be the greatest Mario Party game of all time and most definitely deserves a return as soon as possible.
Super Mario Party Jamboree
Join the latest Mario Party™, a jamboree of seven boards and over 110 minigamesFrom running through merry-go-rounds to motion-control minigolf, this jamboree is jam-packed with more minigames than any Mario Party game to date. With seven boards in all, you’re able to go with the flow in Goomba Lagoon, search the mall for stars in Rainbow Galleria, or revisit the classics of Western Land and Mario’s Rainbow Castle.Check out all kinds of additional modes, like the 20-player online* KoopathlonRace across the party board in Koopathlon, a series-first 20-player online* competition to see who can rack up the highest scores in minigames like the fast-paced Lane Change. The higher your score in each round, the faster you’ll get to the goal.Koopathlon is just one of a slew of additional modes**—there’s something for every kind of Mario Party enjoyer!
Super Mario Party Jamboree Beat FC 25 in UK Sales Charts
Super Mario Party Jamboree takes the No. 1 spot in the UK sales charts.
