Mario Party 7

[GamingStar302]

Great story  ;D

I too share some fond memories with Mario Party 7, as it is the only one I grew up with on the Gamecube. My friends and I have certainly pushed the meta for the minigames, always trying to optimize the games like Fun Run, Snow Ride, Kart Wheeled, Hop-O-Matic 4000, Sphere Factor, Buzz Stormer (always shouting LEFT and RIGHT!), Easy Pickings (i still believe it's possible to clear the whole field with 3 people :-D) and, of course, Pokey Pummel.

Ah, yes! Games like Hop-O-Matic 4000 can be a ride on the struggle bus if you're teamed with the limp noodle of the group, lol. I find that on Buzzstormer, whoever is teamed up with a CPU always wins, because we usually play with the highest difficulty on most games.

Kart Wheeled I still remember that one time my mom played with us and did the whole course backwards and was confused why she wasn't going anywhere. And Pokey Pummel was a button-smasher if I recall correctly? Those are fun from time to time but I hate when you get them over and over again, haha. There is usually one or two in each MP, which I think is appropriate.

 

[rangeric]

Great story  ;D

I too share some fond memories with Mario Party 7, as it is the only one I grew up with on the Gamecube. My friends and I have certainly pushed the meta for the minigames, always trying to optimize the games like Fun Run, Snow Ride, Kart Wheeled, Hop-O-Matic 4000, Sphere Factor, Buzz Stormer (always shouting LEFT and RIGHT!), Easy Pickings (i still believe it's possible to clear the whole field with 3 people :-D) and, of course, Pokey Pummel.

Ah, yes! Games like Hop-O-Matic 4000 can be a ride on the struggle bus if you're teamed with the limp noodle of the group, lol. I find that on Buzzstormer, whoever is teamed up with a CPU always wins, because we usually play with the highest difficulty on most games.

Kart Wheeled I still remember that one time my mom played with us and did the whole course backwards and was confused why she wasn't going anywhere. And Pokey Pummel was a button-smasher if I recall correctly? Those are fun from time to time but I hate when you get them over and over again, haha. There is usually one or two in each MP, which I think is appropriate.

Yeah, Buzzstormer is like "Right Oar Left?" from Mario Party 4, the CPU pretty much just does what you do  :-D

And yeah I think MP5 is notable for having a ton of button mashing minigames, 7 doesn't have too many which I like. Same thing with luck.

 

[GamingStar302]

Yeah, Buzzstormer is like "Right Oar Left?" from Mario Party 4, the CPU pretty much just does what you do  :-D

And yeah I think MP5 is notable for having a ton of button mashing minigames, 7 doesn't have too many which I like. Same thing with luck.

Yeah, I think MP7 has a great mix. I like one or two luck and one or two button mashers thrown in per game, because let's face it, by now they are Mario Party staples.  I don't need too many of them though, otherwise things can get aggravating.

I am notorious among my group of friends / family for always winning the luck games though. I seriously think I win MP4's Bowser's Bigger Blast 90% of the time. XD

 

[rangeric]

Yeah, Buzzstormer is like "Right Oar Left?" from Mario Party 4, the CPU pretty much just does what you do  :-D

And yeah I think MP5 is notable for having a ton of button mashing minigames, 7 doesn't have too many which I like. Same thing with luck.

Yeah, I think MP7 has a great mix. I like one or two luck and one or two button mashers thrown in per game, because let's face it, by now they are Mario Party staples.  I don't need too many of them though, otherwise things can get aggravating.

I am notorious among my group of friends / family for always winning the luck games though. I seriously think I win MP4's Bowser's Bigger Blast 90% of the time. XD

I don't mind button mashers as long as some other skill is involved along with it, such as moving the joystick to avoid obstacles at the same time. A lot of the original N64 Mario Parties did this right, the early Gamecube ones had a lot of just straight up mashing of A with nothing else.

 

[GamingStar302]

I don't mind button mashers as long as some other skill is involved along with it, such as moving the joystick to avoid obstacles at the same time. A lot of the original N64 Mario Parties did this right, the early Gamecube ones had a lot of just straight up mashing of A with nothing else.

Yeah Im definitely familiar with those. My favorite of the bunch has to be MP4's Domination. I just liked the nature of the results in that one, how you all jammed A and then had no clue who was going to win until the end it was revealed. 

But MP4 also had Slime Time, which had identical gameplay but a different method of victory. Looking at MP5, they gave us Will Flower AND Manic Mallets which both required liquidating your A button, and on top of that Merry Poppings was very similar except that you smashed A and B.

After those two I think they began to chill out a bit.