Mario Party: Island Tour News Updates

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More information from Go Nintendo/IGN on games and mini-games!

Go Nintendo said:
Hot-Air Hijinks

- set matches to three, five or seven wins
- download play for up to four-players with one car

Match Faker

- cards start out face up and you have a moment to jot down notes on the touch screen
- then the cards then flip over and players had to find a specific card

Bumper Thumper

- plays like bumper cars
- use short bursts from your thrusters to get around
- knock opponents out of the arena
- hit walls repeated to make portions of the wall disappear

Color Correction

- glide over and paint as many tiles as possible
- player with the most painted tiles wins

Sinking Feeling

- AR game
- climb up a green pipe as it slowly sinks into a lava pit
- pieces drop down from the top of the screen and sometimes block off pathways
- dropped pieces pace increases as the game goes on
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Sources: 1 | 2
 
Vipsoccermaster said:
More information from Go Nintendo/IGN on games and mini-games!

Go Nintendo said:
Match Faker

- cards start out face up and you have a moment to jot down notes on the touch screen
- then the cards then flip over and players had to find a specific card

Bumper Thumper

- plays like bumper cars
- use short bursts from your thrusters to get around
- knock opponents out of the arena
- hit walls repeated to make portions of the wall disappear

Color Correction

- glide over and paint as many tiles as possible
- player with the most painted tiles wins

Sinking Feeling

- AR game
- climb up a green pipe as it slowly sinks into a lava pit
- pieces drop down from the top of the screen and sometimes block off pathways
- dropped pieces pace increases as the game goes on
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Sources: 1 | 2
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Match Faker sounds pretty fun, you finally get to use the touch screen for something. :p

Bumper Thumper sounds like that one 8 player minigame on Mario Party 7. I forgot what it was called. XD

Color Correction seems like that one duel minigame from Mario Party 7 when someone is blue and someone is red and you glide over spots changing their color.

Sinking Feeling actually looked really fun in my opinion, it made good use for the AR cards and looks like it would be really fun to play with other people on. Which sadly I won't be doing, because I don't really know anyone that has a 3Ds, and there's no online. ):

But all and all these games are sound about 8 out a 10. (My opinion of course)
 
More details! Including some of the details of which we already know.

Go Nintendo said:
- focus on racing to the finish line
- shorter boards
- return to individual turn-based gameplay
- 81 new mini-games
- new addition of Boo!
- StreetPass allows players to battle in mini-games against shadowy ghost characters
- shake the die on the lower screen before flicking it up to the upper area
- AR cards utilized in Ka-Goomba
- gyroscopic controls used in Slip Not
- gyroscopic controls for changing item orientation in Spin the Bubble
- drawing pictures on the bottom screen and utilizing the microphone return
- microphone usage in Choicest Voice relies on an amplitude envelope rather than pitch
- seven boards
- Banzai Bill's Mad Mountain has a Banzai Bill that will fly over the board if his spot is landed on
- this ends up knocking players off a cliff to the previous areas of the board below
- you can choose to move forward or hide in a cave to avoid the Bill
- Shy Guy's Shuffle City utilizes special playing cards to help players strategically find their way to the end
- other boards include a village reminiscent of Toad Town in Paper Mario
- this board contains special dice block items
- another board is a grasslands/woodland area with Chain Chomps
- another area is a space themed board that channels Super Mario Galaxy complete with special rocket spaces
- single player mini-game tower mode has you battling up multiple floors
- Mario Party Points can be earned throughout the game to unlock collectibles
- these include voices, music, and character illustrations.
- this is the second Mario Party developed by former Hudson Soft folks moved to Nd Cube
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Sources: 1 | 2
 
Vipsoccermaster said:
More details! Including some of the details of which we already know.

Go Nintendo said:
- focus on racing to the finish line
- shorter boards
- return to individual turn-based gameplay
- 81 new mini-games
- new addition of Boo!
- StreetPass allows players to battle in mini-games against shadowy ghost characters
- shake the die on the lower screen before flicking it up to the upper area
- AR cards utilized in Ka-Goomba
- gyroscopic controls used in Slip Not
- gyroscopic controls for changing item orientation in Spin the Bubble
- drawing pictures on the bottom screen and utilizing the microphone return
- microphone usage in Choicest Voice relies on an amplitude envelope rather than pitch
- seven boards
- Banzai Bill's Mad Mountain has a Banzai Bill that will fly over the board if his spot is landed on
- this ends up knocking players off a cliff to the previous areas of the board below
- you can choose to move forward or hide in a cave to avoid the Bill
- Shy Guy's Shuffle City utilizes special playing cards to help players strategically find their way to the end
- other boards include a village reminiscent of Toad Town in Paper Mario
- this board contains special dice block items
- another board is a grasslands/woodland area with Chain Chomps
- another area is a space themed board that channels Super Mario Galaxy complete with special rocket spaces
- single player mini-game tower mode has you battling up multiple floors
- Mario Party Points can be earned throughout the game to unlock collectibles
- these include voices, music, and character illustrations.
- this is the second Mario Party developed by former Hudson Soft folks moved to Nd Cube
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Sources: 1 | 2
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Woo! More news! I thought the grassland board was part of the Toad Town one, but it says that they are different boards
 
No Traction Action does look fun. It looks like Water Whirled the most than the other mini-games like these (Later Skater, Slot Car Derby, etc.) which I like so that's pretty cool I guess.

Vipsoccermaster said:
Only the first video was new, the last two we already know of.

No Traction Action seems pretty fun, though I think it's going to be a bit of a pain if only Gyroscope is used.
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I think it might be Gyroscope controls for this mini-game from what I see in the video but the mini-game could just be somewhat difficult to control. I don't mind which it is really.
 
Looks like Japan finally has a box-art for Mario Party: Island Tour. Nothing worthy to note of any changes, aside the game title in Japanese.

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Also, Japan will see release on Thursday, March 20, 2014.
Europe is still Friday, January 17, 2014, and Australia can get the game on Saturday, January 18, 2014.
 
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