Mario Party 9 for Wii Reviews by Gamers

I was so excited to have bought a copy of this title brand new. I had set up a small get together for my friends to play this game and bring back memories of frustrating mini games of n64's yesteryear. However, the rules have not evolved--but changed. Everyone moves together when you roll the die. No such thing as coins--just mini-star and "ztars" (stars that have a negative value when added to your collection of stars). The mini games were not as fun and mostly rely on chance than skill. I was so disappointed. Do yourself a favor and purchase an n64 and get you a copy of Mario Party 3.

We did not like this version at all, you have to travel together and collect mini-stars, you hardly hit any mini games, which is most of the fun.. We could not play this for more than 10 mins.. previous version is MUCH better

There is no real point in playing this game at all. They might as well of just made all 4 players the party star.. Why would they change everything thats so good about the old games? Whats the point of playing a board game type game if youre all stuck in the car moving about the board together, soo stupid.. There are no weapons so it lacks the strategy element.. I just hope they make up for it in the next one. So glad I didnt pay for it.

I like the older mario party games better. They changed the gameplay of this title so that everybody travels around together and you have to land on a mini game tile to even play a mini game. The mini games are fun, but they are so few and far in between that it ruins the point of Mario Party. Bummer.

I like the single person movement instead of us all being in a car. Kinda makes it less fun. :( I was super excited to play it and now I cant wait to send it back

You would think when a person makes a game that they would play it. Not the case for mario party 9. If it was then you would hear in the news that all the people at Nintendo killed themselves for making the worst game ever and pissing all over the mario party franchise. The games pure luck. You can win every mini game and still get crushed. The AI is either super easy or for some games have super human reflexes. All new concepts in the game will forever be labeled as the biggest mistakes in game development history. Do yourself a favor and rent yourself another mario party. Even the mini games alone suck.

I've only played two Mario Party titles. 8 and now 9. With 8 I enjoyed myself quite a bit as it was possible to get lucky but if you worked at it you tended to come out ahead of the computer players no matter just how lucky they were. In 9, your skill has nothing to do with winning. It seemed that by the end of the "solo" mode the computer was just cheating. They hit every bonus, won any minigame that required timing or pure luck (ie. almost all of them) and always rolled what would screw you over in the next turn. I tried the Bowser Station level 3 times and each time the computer would always jump up 40 or 50 stars while dropping me 20 or 30 in the last couple of turns. This game is unplayable if you require a modicum of skill to find a game enjoyable. If you like games of pure chance (with the odds stacked against you), then maybe you'll find some fun here.

The game is just similar enough to previous editions to continue in the series and parallel what we are very used to. It is also just different enough to maintain interest and keep from getting too routine as the older versions can get. We enjoy ALL editions of the Mario Party series.

I don't know what nintendo was thinking when they said, "ok, instead of everyone veruses each other (like how a board game is usually played) lets cram them all into stupid cars to work together to win!"....Whoever said that this was a great idea should no longer have a place at nintendo. Why would I play a board game based on teamwork??? Don't get me wrong I love co-op games, I just don't think this is a franchise that can utilize co-op mode, and even if they could there should be an option on whether or not you want to use it, don't force everyone to use this very, very childish compontent of a game. If i had to make a prediction, this game will cause the end of Mario Party as we know... Such a title that started off so strong on the N64 should finish strong, unfortunately this was a huge flop!!

Yeah it's Mario Party, but there are a lot of changes. No more board game like gameplay, instead now there is a very linear path that you must follow and take turns on who is currently driving your mine-cart like vehicle. The other major disappointment with this game had to be the total lack of playing mini-games. The mini-games are the only reason why Mario Party had ever been entertaining. I would not recommend this game, any of the previous titles are better than this.

There was no game for me to look forward to more than Mario Party 9. I was really nervous about it, but this game was a blast. Compared to the other Mario Party games I've played (Mario Party 6, 7, 8, and DS), this took the series to a whole new level.

The story has the Bowsers (Senior and Junior) taking stars from the night sky, so Mario and gang go to try and retrieve them. While playing on the boards for solo mode, you will have to face a specific minion of Bowser's at the midway and endpoints. The bosses are an extremely fun type of minigame that gives out a bunch of stars.

As if boss battles wasn't enough, each board has players moving in the same exact vehicle. This can be a big advantage for some people, but it can also lead to complete and utter mayhem.

Most of the boards are fun and the gimmicks are pretty cool, but often, things can get very complicated.

The best part about this game is probably the fact that you can play it with two, three, or four players. Now, there doesn't have to be a CPU ruining the fun that you and your friend(s) are having.

As usual, the CPU can be really cheap when it comes to getting stars. Good news: you can adjust the difficulty before each round (outside of solo mode). Bad news: they will be gaining stars like there's no tomorrow (and that's just the normal difficulty).

Almost every minigame in this is amazing. The only bad minigames are the ones that involve pure luck (and unfortunately, there's quite a few). The minigames have easy to learn controls, and quite a few of them have good music. It's literally minigame heaven.

The problems with this game (yes, there's quite a few): difficult (cheap) CPU players, boards that have star taking gimmicks (some are really hard to recover from), and music that isn't too bad but could have been better.

Overall, this is probably one of the best games I have ever rented. As usual, the CPU players are cheap and the music is not the best. Despite these, this is a must

I like the old formula better. The new rules and schemes of "Mario Party 9" don't do a whole lot for me. Of course, I can certainly understand why Nintendo felt pressured to change things up. After all, when even I - a huge Mario enthusiast, and all-round Nintendo fanboy - stop purchasing new entries in the Mario Party series, it must be time for some fresh ideas.

But...not these ideas.

i was excited to play it but i don't even want to finish. number 8 was so much better.

The vehicle thing seemed nice, but I was only lucky as Birdo. The mini games were awesome, but not good enough. I only got to the 2nd sets of bosses before it made me want to break it. You should of had health during bosses, it would of been cooler. King Bomb Omb was cheap, because its hard to win. I did not like how one character was with Bowser and you could not let them win. I KNEW this would be a bad choice! I should have gotten Ultamate Marvel vs. Capcom....

I was very excited for this game only to be let down. There is hardly nothing to it now. They took everything that I loved about the Mario Party series out. =(

Terrible. You can be the winner the whole round and lose at the last 5 steps and not because of "luck".

Definitely not as good as Mario Party 8. Most of it is random and all of the boards are the same with different graphics.

Mario Party 9

I have to have the new features were pretty impressive on the first run , I'm a long term fan of mario party games I'll try not to spoil the plot too much, the story starts out with having to get Mini Stars from bowser and the only way to do so is play 6 different boards. the new feature that allows everyone to be apart of the game by having them all ride in the same car and everyone taking turns by rolling the dice instead of other players falling asleep when its not there turn keeps it entertaining all the way through, also the mini games have that same fun thrill feeling as they did in the classic nintendo era. I would have given the game a 10 but sadly before it reached the finished line of the epic game race it tripped on a rock and rolled into a side ditch, the stages are still too short you can complete story mode in a day and 1/2 , the dice blocks go from 1-6 instead of the standard 1-10 , 1-10 blocks are now known as "special" blocks I guess to lengthen the game play time spent on each stage but I think what bothered me most was the mini games 80% of them are dependent on luck and I mean"Luck" not really any type of skill and same goes the stages as well I say this game is good if your playing by yourself because its easier to deal with getting mad at the game rather then your friends having a punch up because someone got a 6 and someone got 1 for the 5th time in a row stealing all there stars . your probably thinking " wait theres the mushrooms that lets add 3 blocks or 2 blocks together right? " wrong those are all gone all you have that are special are " 4-5-6" ,"1-10", "1-2-3" , and "1-0" not so much special and more like ftw is this. Alright I still have to admit Mario Party 9 is still fun ti play all the way around the mini games are creative, the new gimmicks add some fun little twists still the fact the remains all the games are solely based on luck and I wouldn't recommend it to people with gambling problems.

Got Mario Party 9 and after playing it for 1 day i decided to purchase it. I forgot how much fun this game is to play.

cool game im 1st 2 review it!

i have to say i was kinda not looking forward to the whole one vichele thing but i have to say its a lot of fun

Honestly I was excited for this game. My whole family was. We loved the Mario Party Series and 8 was pretty genius. Then we put this game in. The car takes away the original board Game feel, they make everything so liniar that its just a matter of rolling and everyone has to wait and pray for mini games. The mini games make the series and you don't get to play one every round. Its garbage complete garbage.
They took out coins... this made me angry I mean no boo to steal coins or stars? Ughhh that was one of the best things! They also took out Boo and Bones! From the previous game these two landed in my favorites corner and I was annoyed to see they weren't there either. Also they took out Toadette. She should be a nice little staple for girls because they don't have to many Girls in this game anyway. Everything from my childhood has been raped by this game. It was a violation and the developers should be ashamed of themselves. Save yourself some time, money, and your childhood's feelings. Go out and Get Mario Party 8 and it will make you feel better about yourself and your Wallet will thank you too.

A great game with different mechanics but i kinda of imagined what this games would be like with out the cars driving but overall it's not bad at all and it better than mp8 overall 8.9 though good but kinda expected more though...

I never got it in the mail, explaining my rating 1, but my friend got it and it's amazing. The games are mostly used with the Wii remote sideways, so there's not much standing and it reverts back to the Mario Partys 1-7 sort of. When playing a boardgame however, it's very slow paced and gets you frustrated how many times you have to press A to keep going. It's like a car going: It's got great milage, I can see myself using this for a long time, it's fun, it's competitive, everyone can join, it has cool features......BUT it hits potholes every now and then and slows us down for a little while then we get back on track.