Super Mario Party Jamboree
MSRP $60.00
“Super Mario Party Jamboree gives partygoers a lot more bang for their buck.”
Pros
- Great new boards
- More strategic board game play
- Welcome single-player modes
- Creative minigames in side modes
Cons
- Core board minigames are dull
- Inconsistent motion controls
- Some dud motion modes
Is it possible to keep a party going forever? For the third time in the Nintendo Switch’s lifespan, Nintendo is once again faced with that question. Super Mario Party Jamboree closes out the console’s unofficial multiplayer trilogy, which brought the series back to basics after a string of failed formula shake-ups. Since 2018’s Super Mario Party, Nintendo has taken the series back to familiar territory, focusing on the core board game at the heart of the series.
That’s been an understandable, and largely successful, decision. But when you attend this many parties, you need more than one trick. Nintendo seems to understand that with Super Mario Party Jamboree, likely the series’ most robust entry to date. In addition to including more boards than the last two Switch entries and the most minigames ever put into a single game, it also comes flush with bonus modes that aim to open the doors wider than ever. That’s necessary to sell a third Mario Party game on the Switch, though it pushes the series dangerously close to max capacity.
