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Why you should get Mario Party 6...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 149 / 167
Date: November 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Like Halo, the value of this game lies in MULTIPLAYER. Mario Party 6 builds upon the style and mechanics of its predecessors by offering furious four-player fun rooted in board game mechanics. It has over 80 mini-games and 7 boards! The new additions in Mario Party 6 include day and night cycles, new characters and mini-games, and of course, the new microphone. Two of the new characters, named Brighton (a sun) and Twila (a crescent moon) get into a heated debate over who's better. The dispute creates a day/night dichotomy that comes into play whenever playing on any of the six game boards. When you're ready to play, a pop-up book springs open and highlights your options. Party Mode is where you'll find the different board games, which you can play solo or with friends. Instead of just collecting stars, though, each board features different objectives. Again, this game is a lot better in mulitplayer than playing by yourself.

Microphone:
Some mini-games let one player issue commands with the microphone while the others play with their controllers. (not really neccesary imo)

Party Time!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 34 / 36
Date: December 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Everytime the newest insallment of Mario Party comes out we run out and buy it as soon as possible. This time it's even better than ever. With a few added goodies, like the mic makes it even more fun. We tested it and tried the mic games, it works great, recognized everything we said (unless we said it in a silly voice) Just speak clear, not even loud just a whisper worked, and you'll be fine.

We're so excited and can't wait to go play with a group of friends, like someone said that's the highlight of the game, the multiplayer. Too fun!! Everyone, even people who don't normally play video games will LOVE it! Alot of imagination goes into this series, each time with fresh, new mini games.
Which I believe there are quite a few of, so you wouldn't be seeing the same one twice for awhile.

If you love fun filled games you can play with your friends, get this you won't regret it. Kids and adults will have a blast, it's a wonderful, colorful, cute, and creative game that doesn't grow old. Watch out or you'll stay up all night playing!

Party Buzz

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 33 / 38
Date: June 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Nintendo has really been making some of the biggest strides with oneof the most beloved mascots of all time, Mario. Since his breakout in the 1980's, he has been the most popular characters to have ever made it onto the video game scene. While many games and their systems have all come and gone, the variety Nintendo has pulled off with this plumber has been absolutely amazing. That also has gone the same way with the Mario Party game series as well. It has really made the feelings of mini-games, and the use of interactive boards as a popular tool for all games alike, and the latest in the series makes that case ever more known than before.

Mario Party 6, for the Nintendo Gamecube picks up a better game than it was earlier. This has a amazing amount of video games to try out, and play to your heart desires. There are also several great modes like the welcomed Party Mode, for fantastic multi-player action, and a solo mode that you can play to unlock fantastic games, and try games that you've never played before. The graphics are beautiful, and really live up to the game very nicely. There are so many kinds of games to play, like Odd Card Out, Catch You Letter, and other great games. The system also includes a microphone which is really only useful in 5 games in total. The controls are also really very easy to pick-up on with all the games, and a little bit of practice as well. Yet, it is not really worth it for just one player, so get a partner to join in on the party.

Mario Party 6 is really one of the best Nintendo Gamecube games out there right now. This is purely a must have for all gamers alike. I really suggest this one if you are a gamecube owner. It is just a very fun and challenging game.

Graphics: A

Sound: B+

Control: A-

Fun & Enjoyment: B 1/2+ if you're playing solo; A if you are playing with somebody else

Microphone: B+

Overall: A 1/2-

Same, yet different

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 20 / 22
Date: January 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

After the dismal Mario Party 5, I wasn't expecting MP6 to be any better, but somehow it is.

For one, the number of boring and time-consuming animations has been cut down, thus speeding up the games. However, they're still too long. Do we really need to see the "Shuffle-tron" mix up the orbs for 10 seconds every time someone lands on that space? It still takes an hour to play a 10-turn game; you could play a 20-turn game in the same amount of time on the Nintendo 64 Mario Party games.

I still don't like the idea of "orbs," as opposed to buying items directly from shops in the older games. Everyone is constantly getting free random orbs, and most of them affect a certain space on the board, rather than doing something good to the player or bad to another player. So you have a lot less control of what your items do, and a lot less control over what items you have in your stash.

The mini-games, the heart and soul of Mario Party, are more fun this time around than in MP5; it seems they attemped to be a little less derivative and a little more creative. I especially liked the snowboarding game. And the graphics look fantastic during the games. There is one game where you must smash rocks that are blocking a road, and you are driven in a car by a Shyguy. The graphics looked so cool that I wanted to drive the car myself! Why not let us drive the car, Nintendo??

The boards are a bit more creative, too. It's about time we get away from the standard "ice, water, jungle" stages, and the garage stage is a welcome departure. The "nighttime, daytime" gimmick is just that, and doesn't really affect the game in a meaningful way.

The mini-game competitions (that you can play outside the board game) are cool, especially the bingo game. But nothing will top the Duel Mode that was included with Mario Party 3, still the best game in the series. Duel Mode, a completely different board game for two players that reminded me of turn-based RPG battles, could have stood on its own as a separately sold game.

Not having a microphone, I can't comment on the voice-activated portion of the game. But I'm glad that Nintendo is still introducing new innovations, even six games into the series.

Nintendo has done it again for the 6th time...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 22
Date: December 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Hello. I have every single Mario Party Game, and they all ROCK! I like "Avalanche" in #4, "Frightmare" in #5, and every single minigame in #1,2,3,4,&5. But #6 is different. With the all new day & night feature, the Shine Sprite minigame, and, I can't forget, the all new microphone controller. Plus, they added my favorite character. Toadette! Whoever wrote that one reveiw where they asked to put Toadette on the game, THANKS! Even though I don't believe that they did it because of you. If only one of the ratings was infinity stars, I'd give it that. The graphics on the game are STATE OF THE ART! Plus, the story mode is SOOOOO mush better than #5. You settle the differences between two places. Nobody, I repeat, NOBODY, should go without this awesome game...

After playing this for a while now...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: December 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this when it first came out and have to say out of 4, 5, and 6, this is the best. Unique twists of earning stars (storing them in a Star Bank after each game) to uncover hidden characters, hidden mic games, and even an extra party board, make the game fun to continue playing to discover what new adventures you can run into later.
The Solo Mode I found entertaining. There are three short boards you clear one at a time, earning coins, which are converted to stars, along the way. You can select from Easy, Normal, Hard, and earn stars to continue to Harder and Extreme (I believe the hardest is called that). In addition, it allows you to select a computer player to help you with 2 vs 2 games in the Solo Mode. By the way, ALL types of games are played in solo, even battle and duel.
I found the twist of changing the board and mini games slightly, an interesting addition. DK spaces at day, usually turn into Bowser spaces at night, some minigames are slightly different at night than at day, etc.
All in all, I highly recommend the game to those that have liked any Mario Party. Go ahead, give it a try.

Best Mario Party of the 6

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: May 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I found 6 to be the best of all of them. Once Mario Party moved to the GameCube console, it was pretty poor. 4 was just bad. 5 was better. But 6 has all of the best aspects of the previous games. The capsules are much better than 4 or 5. You can either get them for free or go to a Capsule Shop and buy them. The boards are interactive and changing. the day/night change adds an interesting side. you save up stars to buy secrets and taunts. and the mini-games are of course awesome.

Reminds Me Of Mario Party 1

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: May 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

So after having Mario Parties 1, 2, 4 and 6, I'd have to say that 6 is one of the best yet.

But before I go into that. Anyone who has the very first Mario Party knows that it was different from all the others- it wasn't just wandering around the board collecting stars. There were different ways to collect stars on each board (Yoshi's Tropical Island only had two star spaces, and the spaces switched when someone landed on a ? space; Mario's Rainbow Castle was a race to get to the castle when Toad was at it instead of Bowser; Peach's Birthday Cake always had the same star space, and you could plant flowers around the board to get stars, et cetera). Mario Party 6 seemed to be a much more exaggurated version of what the first one was meant to be, and a much better one at that.

Towering Treetop is a perfect example of how Nintendo isn't weakening on their boards. This one was beyond fun. Sure, it was just wandering around the board collecting stars, but it was one of the most creative, and I loved the atmosphere. At the top of the tree is a mini-tree that, when you land on his space, gives you coins during the day and takes away coins at night. Near the bottom is a space that you can land on to try to make the tree sneeze, causing all the players to fall down a level. You can also ride flower-like planes that randomly fly you anywhere on the board, and oh, there's so much that I love about this board!

E. Gadd's Garage seems to be the popular favorite that everyone likes. I can why- it's full of scientific inventions that can turn the game upside down. There are three teleportation inventions around the board. If you land on the space, you have the option to teleport to the next one, which is somewhere else on the board. There's also a missle where you can shoot orbs around the board at a cost. And then there's the gigantic fan that sucks coins from other players. This is the last "searching around the board for stars" board that there is on Mario Party 6.

Faire Square is a perfect example of how Mario Party 6 has much different boards than other Mario Parties. Faire Square is a little town square that has many games around it. There's the coin slot machine which you can earn coins with, and there's the space that takes coins or stars (depending on the time of day) from everyone and everyone randomly chooses a plant. The plant that grows the farthest wins the prize. Oh, and then there's the game where you can choose to give up one of your stars to make it into two stars (or three stars at night!). But you have to follow the hat that contains your star, or else you'll lose it! During the day, stars always cost the same thing- 20 coins (the star is always in the same place, and you can always buy up to five stars at a time, if you have the coins). At night, the star price is either 5, 10, 30 or 40 coins! This can turn into a really good deal or a real rip-off. Yes, Faire Square was definately one of the better boards.

Unlike other boards on Mario Party 6, Snowflake Lake (my personal favorite) is more to the player's advantage at nighttime, and here's why. There are huts around the board where you can pay a chain chomp to ride around the board to steal stars from other players (each player starts with 5 stars, and there isn't a star space). During the day, you pay 20 coins to roll only one dice that decides how many spaces you ride the chain chomp for. At night, you can pay 10 coins to toll one die, 20 coins to roll two, or 30 coins to roll three. What a deal! And also at nighttime you have a better chance of stealing other player's stars, because freezy's block the path that runs to the inside of the board (chain chomps only run alone the outer path of the board, and since it's hard to get out of that path because of the freezies, you have a better shot at stealing stars). Also, the little lake at the center of the board is fun. If someone lands on a happening space near it during the day, there is an ice skating competition, and you get to skate around getting coins. At nighttime there is a snowball fight, where you get to throw snwoballs at your rivals to steal their coins.

Castaway Bay has the same exact layout as Mario's Rainbow Castle from Mario Party 1. You wander around the board hoping to run into Donkey Kong who'll sell you a star for 20 coins, and every time someone passes the star space, Bowser takes Donkey Kong's space, and every time someone passes Bowser's space, he'll steal a star or coins from you, and then Donkey Kong will replace him, and the process goes on. I found Castaway Bay to be the hardest board on Mario Party 6. It's nearly impossible to get stars easily, and it's just as hard to keep them.

Clockwork Castle (the unlockable board) is probably the best Mario Party board I've ever seen. First of all, it's a chasing game. The board is a castle, where Twila and Brighton live. You wander around it trying to run into Donkey Kong, who'll sell you a star for 20 coins during the day. At the end of the turn, Donkey Kong rolls a dice or two and runs around the board. At nighttime, however, the movement of the board gets reversed, and Donkey Kong turns into Bowser, who'll steal a star or coins from you if you bump into him or vice versa. There are warp pipes around the board that you can use to teleport to another side of the board.

The mini-games are quite fun. The snowboarding game is cool. My personal favorite is Lift Leapers, which has the exact same concept as Super Mario Bros., except it only has four levels, and the first person to reach the end wins. Granite Getaway is a game where you're running away from a giant boulder. I found this to be very hard the first time I tried it. Oh, and there's also a game where you mow the lawn, and a golfing game, and there are all sorts of very fun mini-games on Mario Party 6.

Yes, Mario Party 6 has probably the best mini-games I've seen yet, it has the two best Mario Party boards I've ever seen, blah blah blah. Mario Party 4 was my favorite, and it more than likely still is. Here are the reasons why.

What happened to Donkey Kong? I loved him! He was an awesome character. Now instead he only gets a space. Replacing him are Boo, Toad, Toadette and Koopa Kid. Boo and Toadette are fun, but really. I still miss Donkey Kong.

Another thing- orbs. Who came up with the idea of orbs? They're different, and they add a different plot to the game, but I miss items still. They were a lot more managable and easier to use.

The boards are much much smaller, especially Castaway Bay. You can roll less than 30 spaces and bam! You're already at the end of the board. Very sad.

And those are the only reasons I can think of of why I like Mario Party 4 better than 6.

6 has many different things about it- different styled boards, the night and day time factor, the 3-D boards (you know, climbing, hopping, jumping, sliding down things that are much funner to watch than a person simply walking around a flat board), and of course, the mic. The mic is fun, but it doesn't really change the game in a major way.

Also, I heard someone say that it took an hour to play a 10 turn game. ... Huh?! I can play a 20 turn game in an hour, just like all the other Mario Parties I have.

If you're a fan of Mario Party, get this! This is probably the most solid one yet, mark my words.

A fun new twist

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: June 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The Mario Party series is great fun. This new one has an interesting new twist with the day/night differences. It's a great way to break up the monotony of the board game play between mini-games.

The microphone seems silly. My family has ended up turning off the feature and only using the controllers. We just found ourselves running around looking for it when a microphone mini-game would start. It usually fell between the couch cushions during the board game mode.

This game is great family fun and would make a wonderful gift for anyone.

nice game, i even like playing it by myself!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Mario Party 6 is the first Mario Party to have a microphone feature. My copy of the game didn't include the mic, so i don't know how good the mic is. But you can still play the mic mini-games even without the mic. you go to option mode, set the mic to use controller, and start playing the games using the R button on your controller. It may not be as fun, but it is better than not playing them at all. Other than the mic feature this year's mario party is pretty much the same as all the other games. Of course, the mini-games are different and the party mode boards are new, but it still follows all the other games in the series. My rating? 9 stars (out of 10) when your playing alone. 11 stars (out of 5) when your playing with friends.

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