Not true! Mario Party 7 has an 8 player mode; albeit in teams of 2 but it’s still there, with a few unique mechanics and some minigames adjusted for 8 players.
Bowser Party is a good concept in theory (before Super Mario Party I was in support of it returning as a side mode; in that case the car and only three boards would’ve been reasonable) but in practice it is terribly unbalanced towards the Bowser player; get certain Bowser minigames and the team is done for. The guessing game at the end makes an already rough experience all the more painful too.
Huh, I wasn’t aware of that! I still haven’t played any of the GameCube Mario Party games ‘cause I never owned them as a kid. Somehow, I never played a Mario Party game until 8 (to be fair I didn’t have many friends to play party games with as a kid, and the series didn’t interest me much back then either) and didn’t actually own one until 9.
But that just makes the fact that the newer Mario Party games don’t support eight players—even on Switch,
which supports eight controllers at a time!!—even
more bizarre to me!! YOU’VE DONE IT BEFORE,
WHY NOT DO IT AGAIN, BUT BETTER?! I just don’t understand… If there’s any Nintendo franchise that really should be prioritizing more players per game, it’s Mario Party.
Regardless, 7 has the Koopa Kids, so that’s an automatic disqualification from me, unfortunately! =p lol
If I had to make a tier list, it’d probably be something like this:
S: 10
A: Star Rush, Super
B: 9, Superstars
C: -e
(mainly because I fucking love the e-Reader and the fact that this game even exists, lol)
D: DS, 8, Island Tour
E: Top 100
Has Koopa Kids: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Advance, 7
That’s not entirely serious, of course, lol, and I haven’t even played all of them yet, but I liked a lot about 10 and Star Rush. I’ve already mentioned the support for 5 players, and amiibo support was neat, plus the simultaneous movement in Star Rush was a game changer! I’d have put Superstars up with Super if it weren’t for the fact that Superstars doesn’t make full use of the Joy-Con’s features like Super does, plus its roster is
so much worse than Super’s.
EDIT: Forgot to list 8 and 9, oops, lol.