Super Mario Party Jamboree

[SavK]

When I got super mario party a few years ago I lost the cartridge. When I bought a new cartridge I lost that one too. Let's hope the same doesn't happen with this game when I buy it

 

[yoshibro75]

I agree that while Mario Party 9 might be treated harshly by fans of the series, I still admired the NDcube entries of Mario Party because I feel like they might have a reason to try something new, like how the older Mario Party games got too many games in a short time so they probably wanted to do something new.

Criticism for mp4-8: "It's the same thing!"
Criticism for mp9: "It's not the same thing!"

 

[yoshibro75]

Also, I own mario party 9, in case you were wondering.

 

[Wintertime Peach]

I'm surprised that there aren't more people talking about this game. I personally like it a lot...

Character roster is probably the best ever. Love the addition of Pauline and Ninji, I still have my Superstars mains Peach and Birdo, and I like the return of Monty Mole, Spike, and Teresa (Boo).

Boards are great and we finally have an adequate # of boards unlike the past two titles. I'd rank them:
Rainbow Galleria > Goomba Lagoon > Western Land > Mega Wiggler's Tree Party > Mario Rainbow Castle > Roll 'em Raceway > King Bowser's Keep

Items are great. I really like some of the new ones like the Shop Hop Box.

Minigames are great for the most part. I say that because the new ones are mostly fun, but the returning ones are kinda really bad. Probably their worst picks yet. Three Throw? That flawed minigame where the players on the side can easily take up all the gold baskets, and the players in the middle are screwed? Domination? That really dull button mashing game? Shortening the time limit in Blame It on the Crane from 60 seconds to 45 was unnecessary...And I don't know what they did to Snow Brawl, but it feels like the solo player can never win here.
However, I would like to say that the luck-based minigames are actually not that bad this time around. I say this as someone who absolutely hated luck-based minigames in past games and couldn't stand them, but I actually quite enjoy Hot Cross Blocks, and even Gate Key-pers is fine.

As for the side modes, Koopathlon is a lot of fun and I also enjoyed Kaboom Squad. The Rhythm mode and Paratroopa Flight School both feel unnecessary though. I don't really see myself playing either of those often, if at all...

 

[winstein]

I think the game is really great as well. I think that if the developers cannot keep up the demands for board quantity, they could do what Mario Kart did and reuse old boards as new content. It's not like they are the same old thing, because enough gameplay changes can make them feel new (case in point, the addition of items made Mario's Rainbow Castle a more strategic affair compared to the original) I wouldn't even mind it if they reused the differently structured ones like the ones in Mario Party 9 or 10, as I am not one of those who prefer to condemn those.

I think Bowser's Kaboom Squad is great, but it's incredibly difficult to get 5-stars. To date I only got it on the Ty-Foo map thanks to being lucky with great teammates. The other two maps I only got close (4.5 stars). I guess it's good that they don't strictly have an achievement for perfection because CPUs cannot help here. Sure, they are great for minigames, but they aren't the best in terms of optimal practices for Bowser extermination (for example, they can pick Hearts for items but a high rank requires that there are few bubbles).

Koopathlon is awesome, I also agree. It's got a nice blend of arcade-style minigames with different styles of gameplay (so they don't feel too similar each playthrough). Online is a bit of a mixed bag because if I fall behind someone too much it can feel discouraging but at least they reward decently for up to 8th place at least, so that S Rank can eventually be reached. And I think it's fascinating that after someone wins, then no more Survivathon (meaning no more pushbacks for everyone).

Finally, I think it's nice to see that this game has an obvious puzzle minigame (Coin Conveyor), which is something that I am not sure exists in Super Mario Party. I am unsure if Puzzle Hustle is the "puzzle minigame" for that game, or Banana, Split. In my humble opinion, Mario Party needs at least one puzzle minigame!

Thank you for reading.

 

[Sasha]

I don't have any deep analysis (right now) but from a perspective of playing with a family, it's fantastic. Even the bad minigames are ironically fun.

 

[LeftyGreenMario]

I do prefer Coinathlon over Koopathlon mostly because you can select your opponent in Coinathlon and even set individual difficulties (so Hard Waluigi is often ahead of Medium DK and Easy Wario).

That being said, I did create a mod where all my opponents were Warios, a Waluigi, and a Donkey Kong, and Coinathlon is soooo much better now.

 

[winstein]

I do prefer Coinathlon over Koopathlon mostly because you can select your opponent in Coinathlon and even set individual difficulties (so Hard Waluigi is often ahead of Medium DK and Easy Wario).

That being said, I did create a mod where all my opponents were Warios, a Waluigi, and a Donkey Kong, and Coinathlon is soooo much better now.

Have you thought about modding Wario over Impostor Bowser in Bowser's Kaboom Squad? At least you can select your teammates in that mode.

Such a shame that Mario Party is yet to fully embrace the hilarity of selecting the same character, when certain series either embraced it fully (Mario Kart) or dipped the toes a bit (Mario Tennis).

Thank you for reading.

 

[LeftyGreenMario]

Have you thought about modding Wario over Impostor Bowser in Bowser's Kaboom Squad? At least you can select your teammates in that mode.

It sounds like a really great idea, but I guess I'll have to try this out for myself. The mod doesn't actually extract and replace models. All you do is edit a .json file that governs which models and animations load over which slot, which was pretty easy edits all together. It really depends on how the animations play, though, because Imposter Bowser might have some unique animations that show up strangely otherwise if another character is modded over him.

And idk, if anyone really wants to try it out, I did the following:

1. You want to edit bq.nx.bea found in Archive folder in the game partition with Switch Toolbox
2. In the .bea archive, open common/data. You'll find a list of .json files. From educated guess, I figured that characterlist.json is the one to edit. So extract the .json file.
3. This .json file can be edited with Notepad, but I prefer Notepad++
4. Once you open the json file, right away there is a block of text under "PlayerCharacterData". It's easier to read this block if Word Wrap is turned off.
5. Every line in this block of text is associated with a character. For instance, this is Wario's below
   
   Spoiler: The War Code

     { "charaname" : "WARIO", "Number" : 5, "archive" : "chara/pc05", "base directory" : "chara/pc/pc05_wario", "fmdb m1" : "model/pc05_wario.fmdb", "fmdb light" : "model/pc05_wario_light.fmdb", "motion directory" : null, "motion filename prefix[p]" : "motion/pc05_", "attach model[p]" : null, "attach bone" : null, "attach motion filename prefix" : null, "attach_offset_trans_x" : null, "attach_offset_trans_y" : null, "attach_offset_trans_z" : null, "attach_offset_rot_x" : null, "attach_offset_rot_y" : null, "attach_offset_rot_z" : null, "create_with_attach" : null, "item_1" : null, "item_1_attach bone" : null, "item_1_attach motion filename prefix" : null, "item_1_attach_offset_trans_x" : null, "item_1_attach_offset_trans_y" : null, "item_1_attach_offset_trans_z" : null, "item_1_attach_offset_rot_x" : null, "item_1_attach_offset_rot_y" : null, "item_1_attach_offset_rot_z" : null, "item_2" : null, "external_path" : "external_textures", "body_color_material" : null, "body_color_shader" : null, "body_color_no" : null, "attribute filename prefix[p]" : "model/pc05_wario_", "anim transit table" : "anim_transit.mpat", "text label" : "im_pc05_name", "team" : 0, "IndividualScale" : 1, "IndividualBigScale" : 1.4, "width" : 1.7, "height" : 1.67, "space_width" : 3.6, "shadow_size" : 1.5, "sound_no" : 5, "amiibo_height" : 1.6, "amiibo_width" : 1.5, "body_type" : 1, "board_height" : 1.56, "bubble_radius" : 1.1, "bubble_float_y" : 0.8, "head_min_x" : -30, "head_min_y" : -35, "head_min_z" : -5, "head_max_x" : 8, "head_max_y" : 35, "head_max_z" : 5, "head_offset_x" : 0, "head_weight" : 0.5, "head_chincoef" : -1.1, "eye0_material" : "body_m", "eye0_shaderparam" : "material_utility_parameter1", "eye0_t_offset_x" : 4, "eye0_t_offset_y" : 0, "eye0_t_scale_x" : 0.7, "eye0_t_scale_y" : 0.7, "eye0_t_rot" : 0, "eye0_t_min_x" : 3.5, "eye0_t_min_y" : -0.3, "eye0_t_max_x" : 6.3, "eye0_t_max_y" : 0.4, "eye1_material" : "body_m", "eye1_shaderparam" : "material_utility_parameter0", "eye1_t_offset_x" : 0, "eye1_t_offset_y" : 0, "eye1_t_scale_x" : 0.7, "eye1_t_scale_y" : 0.7, "eye1_t_rot" : 0, "eye1_t_min_x" : -2.3, "eye1_t_min_y" : -0.3, "eye1_t_max_x" : 0.5, "eye1_t_max_y" : 0.4, "flat_scale" : 1, "ride_height" : 1.36, "chara_select_target_bone" : "attach_head", "chara_select_rotate_degree" : -25, "chara_select_distance" : 2.3 },

6. So, what I did was that I double clicked this line of code, copied it, and I pasted it over all the characters I want to replace with Wario (I wanted to use Mario still, obviously, so Mario's assets are untouched). After this, I reordered the numbers back to the original. The "Number" line is after the charaname, and it's ordered like 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,12,13,14,50,51,52,53,54,56,58,61,62. It skips around, yeah, so 10 got skipped, and 14 jumps to 50, and 55, 57, 59, 60 are skipped.
7. I make sure the very last line of text before the entire PlayerCharacterData block ends with a ], doesn't have a comma, so delete the comma that's leftover from all the copypasting. I.e. delete the very last comma in line 24 of the file, after "chara_select_distance": 2.3, so this block properly ends. Last time I did this, I forgot to remove this comma, and my game crashed.
8. To replace the mugshots, you should also double click and open Parts.lyt in the .bea archive. Open the timg folder, and there is a _Combined.bntx file. This stores all the mugshots of the characters. You'll want to extract the mugshot you want to replace, and then replace the characters being replaced. face_128_pc0x, face_256_pc0x, face_64_pc0x, face_front128_pc0x, face_front64_pc0x are the kinds of files you want to replace. Yes, pc refers to "playable character", and 64, 128, 256 are different dimensions of the textures, with 64 being smallest and 256 being largest. pc01 refers to Mario, pc02 to Luigi, and so on.

Koopathlon should be playable, buuuuut the lower res models are not replaced, so you'll see the models of the original characters BUT it mostly works, like the characters make the appropriate noise most of the time. Also in some games like Wario's Pop Quiz minigame (name escapes me), you'll still hear the disembodied voices of the original characters being replaced.

Anyway, this replacement does work in those special minigames, so you have odd scenarios playing out like here where me and a bunch of Warios are competing to hand out donuts to another Wario

Or here where we try to rescue Wario rather than Luigi but his animations are not playing appropriate due to just not having special animations that Luigi has for holding a sign, so he's useless when it comes to hints... not that the puzzles are particularly hard

Such a shame that Mario Party is yet to fully embrace the hilarity of selecting the same character, when certain series either embraced it fully (Mario Kart) or dipped the toes a bit (Mario Tennis).

Thank you for reading.

I'm always fond of the funny scenario of having multiple of the same character. We already have Bowser/Dry Bowser, Mario/Baby Mario/Tanooki Mario, Luigi/Luigi (Super Mario Galaxy is where they don't even pretend to care, and I love that), Toadette/Peachette. Might as well go crazy with that.

Oh yeah this method does work for Bowser in Koopathlon sooo, I'll share the mods that inspired me to make a Wario infestation

Bowser Party [Super Mario Party Jamboree] [Mods]

BOWSER TIME... A Super Mario Party Jamboree (SMPJ) Mod in the Other/Misc category, submitted by RoselyFireMods

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Bowser Koopathlon/Kaboom Squad, Etc. [Super Mario Party Jamboree] [Mods]

A Super Mario Party Jamboree (SMPJ) Mod in the Other/Misc category, submitted by RoselyFireMods

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[PageEmp]

Some thoughts:

- Always thought the title was misleading. Super Mario Party is already a game but this is actually closer to superstars, the one I played because it's the old Mario Party formula that I liked. And I never knew that from since this game was announced until a month after it came out. Well I'm glad I bought it in the end.

- Completing some of the boards certainly did it to me. But as for general thoughts, the Bowser board was immensely strenous until the shop boxes and gold pipes could be sold at shops and made the whole thing more manageable, I recall having the worst luck when playing the sky castle board, the tower turne item is WAY too expensive (why 20 coins!? Sure it can make or break a game but it's not guaranteed to work and many similar items on other boards are cheaper!) and Goom Lagoon's map made it impossible to find partners.

- With the exception of I think once or twice, everytime Luigi shows up, he shows up in either an inaccessable area, or way too far away from all the other players.

- I'm not sure about Thwomp the difference and Big top Toad quiz which I feel are kind of similar in general. But I don't mind either and I do prefer the Toad ball quiz because of the variety in questions you can get.

- I don't think a single good luck based minigame exists in the whole franchise, and likewise, the gate minigame is easily one of the worst minigames in the whole franchise. You can make a luck based game done correctly but I still won't exactly like it. But the 3v1 minigame where you guess which hole the single player hides in I do think is a luck based game here done correctly and I do not mind to play that one once in a while to test my luck because it at least feels satifying to actually guess correctly.

- Also I feel like with the vote option the opponents are almost guaranteed to pick the coin minigames for some reason.

- The Koopathlon is very fun, but every time I try to play it, they always give that Bowser minigame wher you choose the shells. I mean it's kind of fun except for the luck based final part, but why everytime I play it? Sometimes I wished I could actually choose the Bowser minigame or one that was just played won't be used again.

Criticism for mp4-8: "It's the same thing!"

I would much prefer it was the same formula. Just provide different gimmicks with the new boards of a game.

 

[Wintertime Peach]

Sigh, I concur that it is incredily difficult to get 5 stars in Bowser's Kaboom Squad.

With CPUs it's probably just not possible, and I haven't had much luck with online randoms. They struggle in different areas: The computers are at least competent at the minigames and is easier to S rank minigames than it is with humans. But they are hopeless on the map.

Humans can often let you down in the minigames, but do better on the map. At least if you're grouped with people who know what they're doing...

People need to know that when the purple reticle appears on their character, it means that Bowser will follow them and they should stay away from any crates or bombs on the map. Bowser instantly destroys the crates, and any bombs that he touches will vanish and are lost...Luring Bowser towards the crates is just about the worst thing that you can do, but most don't seem to understand this...

 

[Sparks]

Sigh, I concur that it is incredily difficult to get 5 stars in Bowser's Kaboom Squad.

With CPUs it's probably just not possible, and I haven't had much luck with online randoms. They struggle in different areas: The computers are at least competent at the minigames and is easier to S rank minigames than it is with humans. But they are hopeless on the map.

Humans can often let you down in the minigames, but do better on the map. At least if you're grouped with people who know what they're doing...

People need to know that when the purple reticle appears on their character, it means that Bowser will follow them and they should stay away from any crates or bombs on the map. Bowser instantly destroys the crates, and any bombs that he touches will vanish and are lost...Luring Bowser towards the crates is just about the worst thing that you can do, but most don't seem to understand this...

Totally agree that computers have bad AI. They're decent when out and about but sometimes they do cause Impostor Bowser to destroy crates and bombs, which is why I usually make him chase me away from everyone else. As for the minigames, computers are pretty solid most of the time but they can sometimes be stupid in "Puzzle Pandemonium", "Look This Way" and "Match! That! Item"! I declare "Ballistic Bingo" to be the worst one though, not just because of the constant missing that occurs but also the ridiculous requirement to S rank it. "Bath Bob-ombs" too to a lesser extent.

I have 4.5 starred all stages but haven't 5 starred any. YET! Don't know if I'll attempt that and if I do, when I'll try. The mode is a blast to play and the only bad thing about it are the final two minigames mentioned above.

 

[winstein]

Totally agree that computers have bad AI. They're decent when out and about but sometimes they do cause Impostor Bowser to destroy crates and bombs, which is why I usually make him chase me away from everyone else. As for the minigames, computers are pretty solid most of the time but they can sometimes be stupid in "Puzzle Pandemonium", "Look This Way" and "Match! That! Item"! I declare "Ballistic Bingo" to be the worst one though, not just because of the constant missing that occurs but also the ridiculous requirement to S rank it. "Bath Bob-ombs" too to a lesser extent.

I have 4.5 starred all stages but haven't 5 starred any. YET! Don't know if I'll attempt that and if I do, when I'll try. The mode is a blast to play and the only bad thing about it are the final two minigames mentioned above.

Personally I think that the best way to get 5 stars is a coordinated effort by human players, especially online. I do not know how many humans are required to make the dream come true, but everyone must at least be: (1) great at minigames, and (2) able to handle the bombs and coins.

• Since CPUs are generally great at minigames, at least a more human players are ideal to get it to work because CPUs just do not have the capability to play optimally in the rounds. If they get hit, it affects the ranking and that hurts the results.
• When choosing the items from minigames, I think that the dash pads and springs are absolutely crucial in gathering bombs, because they speed up the process. Hammers help but something only a few people need to use. For the 5 star to work, it's better to forgo Hearts generally. I guess having a few can help but the best performance shouldn't need them.
• Never have someone stay in the bubble at the end of the round! Even getting one stuck in the bubble can serious affect the ranking, so like if there were 3 bubbles and only 2 are rescued, the rating takes a huge dip. In this case, hearts can help a bit but they shouldn't be relied upon.
• Ideally, coins are gathered in the first 3 rounds so that there's enough for the Bonus Time, and then pile all those bombs to hopefully KO Impostor Bowser. At the very least, this will guarantee the Speed rating to be high.

To date, I only have 4.5 stars in Chargin' Chucks and Bomber Bill stages. Only in Ty Foo's stage did I have 5 stars, and I think having springs helped a whole lot.

Thank you for reading.