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Mario Party 9
File:Marioparty9logo.png
European box art
Developer(s)Nd Cube Co., Ltd.[3]
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Composer(s)Toshiki Aida
Ryosuke Asami
SeriesMario Party
Platform(s)Wii
Genre(s)Party
Mode(s)Single player, Multiplayer

Mario Party 9 (マリオパーティ9 Mario Pāti Nain) is a party video game for the Wii.[4] It was officially announced at E3 2011 and was released on March 2, 2012 in Europe, on March 8, 2012 in Australia, and on March 11, 2012 in North America. It will be released on April 26, 2012 in Japan. It is the first Mario Party game in the series to be developed by Nd Cube Co., Ltd., as they take over development of the series from Hudson Soft.

Gameplay

Like previous Mario Party titles, four players take part in each game, composed of a virtual board, and move around a variety of themed lands to collect ministars, while avoiding certain spaces. A gameplay element in all of the boards is that all four players will move around in one vehicle.[5][6] Minigames will reappear, and have a larger focus on the gameplay than they did in the previous game.[7][8]

Similar to Mario Party Advance, players move around in a vehicle, such as a car.[9] The objective of the game is to collect mini-stars. It has been confirmed that Mario Party 9 will feature twelve playable characters, with two unlockable.

In a first for the Mario Party series, each board culminates in a boss battle that you coperate with other players in the car.[10][11] There are many more mini-games in Mario Party 9, and game length has been set to 45 minutes.[citation needed]

They have 80 new mini games there are separated into 4 categories. there are mid bosses and stage bossses witch are the main bosss and harder then mid boss.


A new form of gameplay is introduced in this game: players will move all at once through the board in a vehicle. Instead of trying to collect coins to buy stars, players receive Mini Stars (bananas in DK's Jungle Ruins) if they pass by them. Players must try to avoid Mini Ztars, which deduct their current amount of Mini Stars. In this game, the minigames don't appear after everyone moves, but only when a player ends up on any of the spaces that triggers a minigame.[citation needed]

Reception

Mario Party 9 has received mostly positive reviews. It has an aggregate score of 75 on Metacritic, based on 25 reviews.[16]

German magazine N-Zone gave Mario Party 9 a 75% score for single player mode, and 85% for multiplayer mode.[17] Nintendo Power gave it a 8/10, saying that "the majority of the game's 78 activities are fun", while commenting that "some may be discouraged by the game's radical changes".[18]Nintendo World Report gave the game a score of 8.5/10.[19]

IGN gave the game a 7.0 "Good" rank, praising its graphical improvement and its control style. Like previous Mario Party games, IGN strongly criticized the luck-based factor of the game. UGO Entertainment gave the game an A-, criticizing the game's single player mode, but praising its multiplayer and improvement from previous titles. [20][21]

NintendoLife gave the game a score of 8/10. MyNintendoNews gave the game an 8.5/10, criticizing the game for not having an online mode, but stated that the game is "immensely entertaining" and an improvement from past Mario Party games.[13][22]

GamesRadar gave the game a score of 8/10, praising Mario Party 9 for being balanced, but criticized the predictability of the boards. [23] Template:Wikipedia books

References

  • Magrino, Tom. "Kirby Mass Attack leads Nintendo release updates". GameSpot.
  1. ^ a b c "Mario Party 9 (Wii)". NintendoLife. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
  2. ^ "Mario Party 9". Nintendo. Retrieved March 3, 2012.
  3. ^ "Mario Party 9". Nintendo. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
  4. ^ Fletcher, JC. "Yep, there's a Mario Party 9". Joystiq. Retrieved 2011-08-11.
  5. ^ "Minigame Madness coming to the Wii this Christmas". Everybody Plays. Retrieved 2011-08-11.
  6. ^ kksl1der. "Mario Party 9 announced". The Nintendo Basement.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ Lucario. "E3 2011: Mario Party 9 trailer". Aussie Nintendo. Retrieved 2011-08-11.
  8. ^ Cole, Joey. "E3 2011: MARIO PARTY 9 Announcement Trailer". The Daily BLAM!. Retrieved 2011-08-11.
  9. ^ Official E3 Trailer
  10. ^ Mario Party 9, Nintendo.com
  11. ^ "Mario Party 9". bestbuy.com. Retrieved 2012-02-16.
  12. ^ Nintendo Power Issue 276: March 2012
  13. ^ a b James Newton (March 1, 2012). "Life and soul". NintendoLife.
  14. ^ http://wii.ign.com/articles/122/1220456p1.html
  15. ^ http://www.ugo.com/games/mario-party-9-review
  16. ^ http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii/mario-party-9
  17. ^ Schirado, Tyler. "New 'Mario Party 9' Gameplay Details and Mini-Game Descriptions". Game Rant.com. Retrieved 2012-02-16.
  18. ^ Nintendo Power Issue 276: March 2012
  19. ^ http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/review/29440
  20. ^ http://wii.ign.com/articles/122/1220456p1.html
  21. ^ http://www.ugo.com/games/mario-party-9-review
  22. ^ http://mynintendonews.com/2012/03/09/mario-party-9-review/
  23. ^ http://www.gamesradar.com/mario-party-9-review/

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