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Mario Party 5!
Story: Apparently there's this land called the "Dream Depot" where everybody's dreams go. There are guards in the Dream Depot. These guards wonder one day if they should let people with the power of dreaming in. They decide that they should allow it to happen and invite Mario and co. to go here because...nobody dreams more than they do. Mario and co. accept and the guards prepare games for them to play. Out of all of the rediculous MP stories, this one takes the cake. This is the only one I have trouble remembering. This also raises many questions for this.
I can come up with a better, easier to follow, story that even makes more sense. Here goes. There is a place called the Dream Depot where all dreams go. The dreams in the Dream Depot look like townspeople. They have a king inside of the Dream Depot. The king decides that those who dream can come in and the people agree. Mario and co. get invited and they accept so the dreams begin making games for them to play. The guard stuff was confusing and unnecisary.
Minigames: I actually thought these miinigames were a good batch. Games like Fish Sticks, Dodge Bomb, Pushy Penguins, and Defuse or Lose were all original while other games were some of the best! They had the usual luck, button mashing, and race games but these were kept down.
Modes: Usuals (Party, Story, Minigames, Options) along with an Extra mode with 3 games not found in the normal mode. These were fun but the main non-usual mode is... Super Duel Mode! I found this to be quite enjoyable. You get to customize your car/hovercraft thing and battle against, capture the flag with, or shooting at rabbits against a computer or another human.
Difficulty: I'm not sure as this is one of the two games I do not own so I don't know this myself but after seeing videos I'm leening towards hard. That's fine with me though. They didn't look excrutiatingly hard.
Boards: I'm also fifty-fifty with this as well. Toy Dream, Pirate Dream, and Sweet Dream were great but Bowser was meh and Rainbow and Future were only okay, Undersea Dream was too small and little background... Not as bad as 4 but I think 8 had better ones.
Overall: MP 4 and 8 were the only ones I disliked. This was fun but to difficult of a story and okay boards dragged this down. Again this is still good but not as much as it could have been.