

The Switch’s first soiree, Super Mario Party, set the wheels in motion by stopping them completely. Perfectly fine, but change for the sake of change, when all you really want is Coke Zero to come back – and that is Mario Party Superstars, with the return of the original, and simply the best. The last few Mario Party games are like the latest iteration of Coke No Sugar. Superstars cleans the slate of gimmicks, implemented to varying degrees of success to refresh the format, and returns to the straight four-player board game meets button-mashing minigame formula that proved so successful in the late-90s and early-2000s. Nintendo has looked backwards to go forwards with Mario Party Superstars, reviving five classic boards from the Nintendo 64 era and 100 mini-games from Mario’s parties #1 through #10. Mario goes back to basics to throw his best party in years.
